The highlight of the Taste Tibet travelling roadshow is surely the annual curry and quiz night at our children’s school. How better to celebrate the end of January than a good old knees-up in the kids’ canteen? Look how happy I am to be serving alongside my mum chums here. All the best things came together on Saturday night.
Last year we delivered the food, then left the other parents to it. They served up the good stuff and cleaned everything away while I put my brain to work on the other side of the counter.
This time, without planning it (or possibly because I disgraced myself during the last quiz by excelling only in the celebrity gossip round), I found myself lingering in the kitchen, where I am arguably most comfortable.
Looking back, I’ve always been happiest in a service role. I did my degree in Cambridge and worked scores of college balls during my time there without ever donning the glad rags and attending one as an actual guest (I’ve still never been to an Oxbridge ball as a paid-up customer, though Taste Tibet has catered about 50 of them).
As for Yeshi, his earliest education was in the Buddhist tradition of serving others. At home, a pot of butter tea was always ready on the kitchen stove, and the tables around it were piled high with fruit and home-made snacks, poised for visitors. Out on the road, devout locals built rest houses on the edge of villages and towns to ensure that travellers and pilgrims were provided for at no cost along their way.
Working for the benefit of others is not just a commendable Buddhist notion. It’s done because it feels good. So when friends stopped by the canteen counter on Saturday night to commiserate with me as I prized off the last pieces of coriander, I felt compelled to explain that this was where my joy was at and always will be.
How awesome to be able to contribute something significant to our kids’ amazing school, and what a pleasure to serve delicious food to the other mums and dads who also want to support it.
I’m in the right job, and so is Yeshi. Thank you to our wonderful community for this opportunity to serve you.
Taste Tibet is open all the usual hours this week, as follows:
Weds – Fri: 5-9.30pm (dinner only)
Saturday: 12-3/ 5-9.30pm
Sunday: 12-3 / 5-9pm
This week’s menu is up on the website – check it. Come for dine in, take away and a restock of your freezer. We also have plenty of chilli oil, pickle and cookbooks.
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Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Julie and Yeshi
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