Little Tibet owner Namgyal Ponsar greets me with a warm cup of creamy chai tea, a welcome drink on a damp December day. The music of Ani Choying — “she’s known as the singing Buddhist nun,” Ponsar ...
At age 13, Kalsang Lama was already a skilled enough cook to prepare dinner for her family when they returned home from work each night. She grew up in a Tibetan settlement in Mussoorie, a popular ...
When I discovered Chowhound—back at the turn of the millennium—it was a bare-bones message board for gastronomic misfits who subscribed to the front-page manifesto of its founder, Jim Leff: “Foodies ...
There are some foods that become sacred through nothing more than fierce love and attachment. Your mother’s meatloaf, Sunday-morning pancake breakfasts, the roasted chicken your wife made the first ...
Taste of Tibet, settled in the middle of Gangtok, is a hidden gem that attracts foodies from all over. A staple of the city's thriving culinary scene, this landmark eatery has become an institution in ...
Former Traveler staffer Ashley Thompson gives us a glimpse of travel and food in Western China. Out the bus window, the Wild West of China began to unfurl, as did lush peaks towering over muddy rivers ...
On Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, just across from the Flatbush Co-op, and literally on top of the Q station, there’s a scruffy Asian bodega, pragmatically named “Asian Grocery.” It sells ...
NEW HAVEN — New Haven long ago earned a reputation as a foodie's paradise, particularly for it's wide variety of ethnic restaurants. Tibetan food is now a part of that diverse culinary mix. Tibetan ...
The momo, the Tibetan dumpling, could be considered the unofficial “spokesfood” of Tibetan Cuisine. You might feel inclined to dismiss these as merely ubiquitous dumplings within our fine metropolis ...
Taste Tibet, an Oxford restaurant, hosted a free 'momo party' to celebrate the five-year anniversary of its opening and the community that ...