Yeshi started the Taste Tibet stall in 2014, shortly after we had our daughter. For years he had been the primary carer for our son,

When Yeshi first arrived in the UK we bought him a bike, because that’s what people do in Oxford. I remember that he couldn’t ride

In Tibet you will often find women doing the heavy lifting. In rural areas, where families tend to be at least semi-nomadic, most men spend

Huge thanks to everyone for the amazing turnout at our Momo Party on Saturday! Thank you also for your cards, flowers, booze and well wishes

We know that many of you miss our crispy bottoms. Back when we were a market stall set-up this was the only way we could

The cultural and historic centre of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, is Barkhor Street. This bustling thoroughfare has a history of over 1,300 years. It’s a meeting

Thanks for bearing with us – the doors to Taste Tibet have been shut for far too long, and we’re really excited to be opening

Life can throw some pretty surreal moments, and for team Taste Tibet this is surely one of them. Back in early July we heard that

We’ve written before about the previous occupants of 109 Magdalen Road. The current Taste Tibet premises was originally a bakery, but it has also been

We are coming to the end of a long lockdown made up of all kinds of rules that many of us, even with the best

Did you hear the news? Taste Tibet is a finalist in this year’s BBC Food and Farming Awards! This is massive news not just for

We were heaving on Friday night. We’ve started to notice a pattern of this every last Friday of the month. I worked it out a

It’s hard to believe, but there are only about 700 Tibetan people in all of the UK. Unlike the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Holland and

On our days off, Yeshi and I love having lunch together at the back of our restaurant on Magdalen Road. Yesterday we made flatbreads and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BMsP1IytEU In normal times we’d have dusted off our festival tent by now and be out in the fields. When big events return we’ll be

It’s only taken us seven years, but Yeshi’s legendary chilli oil has finally hit the shelves! In Tibet, sepen, as this oil is known, is

We think our lunch deals are the best in town, and we certainly have your vote of confidence. The launch, last week, of our vegan

Happy week of hospitality and hugs! Finally we can have you indoors, and this is a big moment for us as: 1. We opened in

Oh hello Mr Taste Tibet, maker of momos. This is a very familiar face to regulars of Taste Tibet but how much do you know

Today I put myself in the spotlight. This is not a place I am comfortable! Despite various grand titles to my name (Chief Editor of

Welcome to the first in our Behind the Scenes at Taste Tibet mini series! Everything you never knew you needed to know about how stuff

Our amazing friend Keiko visited Yeshi’s village in Tibet last week and took some beautiful pictures for us of family, friends and the nomad areas

https://youtu.be/cLdN7B5RcjM We’ve been closed for two weeks but we have not been sitting about. Those of you who peered in and spotted all the cameras

In the small village where Yeshi grew up in rural Tibet everybody knew everybody, shared resources and worked together. When he was little he roamed

We have been fretting over this freezer ever since we started filling it earlier this year. Many of you got in touch with the names

For me, one of the hardest things about having the kids at home was coming up with lunches that satisfied Master and Little Miss TT.

Many of you ask where we source our ingredients, and we are always proud to share that we support a number of very local businesses

Lockdown is set to ease, and it’s wonderful news and also sad! The children (9 and 7) will be going back to school soon. They

It’s the maddest of days for both hospitality and hospitals, and we’ve crossed the bridge from one to the other many times over this last

If you’ve been by our shop on Magdalen Road recently you may have noticed our new fridge/freezers (and then again you may not – we

Beer as we know it is a relatively new introduction to Tibet, but Tibetans have been enjoying chang, a home-brewed barley beer, for centuries. People

Without giving it all away, Tibetan people are not big kissers. Well, not the saying hello or goodbye kind anyway. Doesn’t it seem strange that

Tibetan people are a hugely resourceful bunch, especially when it comes to food. Out on the grasslands of the plateau, the Tibetan diet ain’t all

By now you all know how much we love a challenge. In Lockdown 1 we pivoted our business from market stall to deliveries. In Lockdown

2020 would have been some year even without the pandemic. In the first few days of January 2020 we completed on the purchase of a

Zoom in and you will be able to make out the blue premises license application on the front door: The strange twists and turns of

Our new posh digs on Magdalen Road feel really quite surreal. There has been nothing posh about our set up in the nearly seven years

This year has been huge for Taste Tibet. There has been a radical shift in the way that we operate and the bonds that we

Many people don’t realise that there are vast cultural differences between the countries of East Asia. Some of us are aware of the extreme codes