Postcards from Tibet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEZ2uczpRM Wintertime in eastern Tibet. Many of you enjoyed the last video we shared from home. This one arguably gives you even more of a

Some of you may know that before we built ourselves our amazing new kitchen over in Cowley, Taste Tibet operated (for rather too long) out

Ladies and gents, Taste Tibet is back in the house! January blues no more, as the momo returns to east Oxford this Thursday 17th Jan

Here is a wonderful short video sent to me this week from relatives in Tibet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVKAHdrH4Kc This blog often challenges your idea of Tibet: the

The Tibetan plateau is one of the driest places on earth: many areas receive less than 10cm of rain in a year. According to strict

Thank you SO much to everyone who ate with us at the Christmas Light Festival last weekend. We are always flabbergasted by the support shown

In the many years that I travelled and lived in China, I ate out a good deal. I loved uncovering small, local, sometimes hole-in-the-wall type

An old Tibetan folk song likens a lady lover to a wooden bowl. It may not sound romantic, but traditionally Tibetan people owned one bowl

On a recent trip to Tibet we were amazed at how little cash is used in this apparently remote part of the world. Back in

Our kids have been brought up in England so far, but when we ask them if they feel British or Tibetan (strictly speaking they are

When I was growing up in Tibet, recycling wasn’t a word in my vocabulary. It was something that we all did instinctively, given the scarcity

In Tibet, like here, it is late summer, and my brothers have been busy on the high mountains herding yak and dri (the female yak).

It’s been a long old summer. We have met some amazing people along the way, and we want to give a special shout out to

Sorry to poop the party, but in this wonderful warm weather, don’t reach for a lolly, or for an ice-cold drink. Did you know that

Tibet is a landlocked country (we share a border with mainland China, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar), and for those Tibetan people still inside Tibet,

A quick heads up that we will not be running our stall in Gloucester Green Market this Wednesday 20th June. This week our team is

TV Chef Anthony Bourdain, who died this week, was a huge advocate of street food. He described it as “the cure for fast food chains”.

Outside of Tibet, the yak gets a lot of flak. Visitors to Tibet have often sampled so-called yak butter tea, a drink that can taste

The Taste Tibet blog is one of the Top 25 Tibet Blogs on the Internet! Feedspot has selected us from thousands of Tibet blogs using

It’s festival time! This weekend we kick off our season at Wood. It’s our fourth year running at this wonderful local festival of music and

Regular customers will be well aware that it serves well to bring your own Tupperware to our stall. We are happy to fill boxes that

Happy sunny May Day! It seems such a paradox that life should get busier just as the weather gets nice. In Oxford, the students swap

We have spent the last few weeks with family in Tibet. Parking work to one side for this brief spell, there was really very little

In Tibet, books are revered objects. You must never put them on the floor, sit on them, step over them, or place anything on top

Collective sigh. All good things must come to an end, and our current run at Silvie finishes this Thursday 22nd March. Thank you so much

When I first met Yeshi in the small Indian hill station of Dharamsala, he described himself, unforgettably, as the King of Dharamsala. Apparently I had

This Thursday is International Women’s Day. It is a day that is rarely marked in my village in Tibet, but then again women have arguably

In Tibet, when it snows, we eat noodles. Not the fried noodles we bring sometimes to our stall in Gloucester Green, but soup noodles, piping

This weekend the Taste Tibet team celebrated Losar, or Tibetan New Year, a little larger than we have done in previous years. Over the last

The official start of the Tibetan New Year is this Friday, 16th February. The first month of the Tibetan year marks the early spring season,

Do you know the backstory of Taste Tibet? We started out making momos in our small family kitchen for farmers markets and small-scale events. Before

My hands are my most important commodity. This week one of our menu boards fell hard onto my left thumb. It hurt a lot, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOAfyNMyJM4 Dates and numbers are a wonderfully fluid thing in Tibet. For the record, I don’t know my actual date of birth. In fact, I’m

Post from the heart. Our Taste Tibet pop up started last Thursday at East Oxford bakery cafe Silvie, and it was massive! Yeshi says he

Amazing news for momo fans! This Thursday, January 11th, marks the first of a new regular Taste Tibet pop-up night at East Oxford bakery cafe

The people of Oxford have spoken. You guys love Taste Tibet, and Taste Tibet is expanding to meet demand! We need to put together a

Have you resolved to find a new job in 2018, or to take up a new hobby? The bad news is that nobody is going

When I first met Yeshi in India he was sharing a room with a friend in central McLeod Ganj. It was a very humble abode

Baby it’s cold outside! Probably not the best time of year to visit Tibet, the so-called roof of the world. Or is it? Don’t tell

“What do you do with all the leftovers?” People are often amazed at the amount of food we have cooking at our regular stall in