Before I went to Tibet, I heard a lot about their staple, tsampa. It is essentially a dough made with barley flour and yak butter tea (more on "yak butter" later). I finally got to try it today, and it was quite non-repulsive. It was a extremely dense and flavorless, but not bad if you eat it with other things (kinda like eating rice).
It seems calorie-laden foods are very important in Tibet. After not having breakfast, I got very tired. I took a huge 2 hour nap after a big lunch and felt much better afterward.
Oh yes, about yak butter. Apparently in Tibetan, "yak" is a male, so "yak butter" does not technically exist. They call the females "bee" instead.
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