by @a_j_knight_ Tibet is a mountainous country, parts of which are very inaccessible, and when people get ill they are usually a long way from

Do you love your stove? Maybe you do. But do you honour it, respect it, feed it? In Tibet, the family stove is the residence

Foragers – get excited! It’s nettle season, and this week’s blog brings you Chef’s favourite nettle soup recipe. Tibetan people love eating nettles. They call

People often wonder how Asian people stay so slim when food appears to be so plenty. In Tibet, it’s the same story as elsewhere in

Do you think about food in terms of colour? In the west we talk often about eating greens, but there’s no other food type that

The Himalayan region is shared between China (including Tibet), Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and India. The mountains were there long before people inhabited these parts, and

I’ve written before about food as the language of love, but really, food is the language of love. In Tibet, this certainly seems to be

@tibetanencounter posted this lovely image (L) of a traditional Tibetan summer picnicking tent on their Instagram today. Here in the UK we’re not quite there

There were no shops in the village where I grew up in eastern Tibet. There is a small store there now. My family say that

Photo credit: @tibetanportraits Valentine’s Day has yet to make inroads in Tibet. Perhaps there are whispers of it now in the big cities, but it

Happy Tibetan new year! Today is Losar, or Tibetan new year, the most celebrated event in the Tibetan calendar. This year we are bringing in

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