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I've only been as close as Nepal. I've never been to India. Is the chai similar? I have no clue how they made it, sorry.

• vram22 9y ago
  I've never been to Nepal, but my guess is that there could be both similar and and different ways (from the Indian ways) of making tea, in Nepal. Similar, because India and Nepal have some common cultural background in some areas, and different, maybe because Nepal is near Tibet. E.g. had been reading about those areas recently, and had read that Tibetans make tea with (yak?) butter and salt. Think I read that some Nepalese make it that way too. And I actually tried having tea with (regular cow) butter and salt once, it was not bad :)
  • KGIII 9y ago
    I don't think it was yak milk. I've had that. I'll be going back. I'll see if I can find out.
    • vram22 9y ago
      Interesting. According to this article, which I just looked up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea they did originally use yak butter, and still do, but increasingly do use butter made from cow milk, since it is more available now. Maybe you saw a case of that. Update: Just searched again and found a few more interesting links. Also, they (Tibetans) pour the butter tea into their tsampa, also a staple food among them: https://www.eater.com/2016/8/25/12624068/butter-coffee-tea-tibet-yak https://www.eater.com/2016/8/25/12624068/butter-coffee-tea-t... http://www.teafoodhistory.com/tibetan_tea.html http://www.teafoodhistory.com/tibetan_tea.html http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/05/404435137/tea-tuesdays-butter-up-that-tea-tibetan-style http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/05/404435137/tea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsampa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsampa
      • KGIII 9y ago
        Nice, thanks for the link. Mine was always just the tea, it was delicious. ;-)