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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Jolma Ren was born in the Amdo region of Tibet and worked in the tech industry in Oregon. But about a year ago, she made a leap to her own business, combining Oregon crops with ...
A few times a year, Thupten Bachan’s family sets out into the mountains near their home in the Kham region of Tibet to forage for herbs — mostly parsley, coriander and chives — that they’ll bring back ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...