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

Reproduced from www.pictureoxon.org.uk, refs POX0600855 and POX0600854. Even if you know very little about Tibet you may know that most Tibetan people are Buddhists, and

Yeshi and I met on a mountain path in northern India on Friday 13th November 2009. For as long as we’ve been together it has

Here to lighten up your lockdown, folks! Our new shop is very nearly ready, and we’re planning to open takeaway only as soon as next

As COVID cases rise around the country and shops and restaurants struggle to keep abreast of the ever-changing rules and regulations that affect us at

Last week one reader asked us to do a “how we met” blog. When I’m feeling a bit more romantic it will land! Meantime we

Time is experienced so differently in Tibet. Watch the video sent recently from relatives back home and all becomes clear. This was Yeshi’s life for

When Yeshi first moved from India to Oxford he was initially excited to make the acquaintance of new fruits and vegetables. He tried his hand

Argh! Anyone else out there enjoying the challenge that is opening new walls during a lockdown? Here’s the thing. We have this fabulous made-new building

Our kids, a product of mum and dad of course, are not the most conventional of children. They are reluctant to accept direction and rules,

Thanks so much to everyone for your huge support during back-to-school week. We could sense the relief at our stall, and heard of at least

That long hair thing – it’s not a trick to get to you to buy momos. Back in Kham, where Yeshi is from, many men

We are off blackberry picking at the weekend (or maybe lavender if we are lucky, and if the COVID situation allows). We never usually get

Butter is getting more and more expensive – that’s something that everyone has noticed over the last few years. Globally, the price of butter rose

It’s been a huge week, with lots of things going spectacularly awry. Some weeks are like this. It’s not all bad, but the bad does

Did you know that Oxford’s Tibetan Buddhist Centre is just a stone’s throw away from our new premises on Magdalen Road? Over on the other

It’s summer! Taste Tibet will be celebrating with two pop ups at Silvie this Thursday and Friday evening. Please join us! Our beautiful tent will

With apologies to those of you missing the nod to Ariana Grande, two very important announcements in this week’s blog: If you live in or