Best Bhutanese Food - FEAST of Bhutan Dishes - Fermented YAK Cheese! (Day 12)

Folk Heritage Museum Restaurant serves some of the best Bhutanese food you’ll ever eat.
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If there’s one Bhutanese food restaurant you have to eat at when you’re in Bhutan it’s the Folk Heritage Museum Restaurant. This was probably the best Bhutanese food meal that I had in all of Bhutan. The food and the knowledge of Bhutanese culture was amazing.
Folk Heritage Museum Restaurant - They also have a museum, but the best reason to come here is for their restaurant. They aim to really preserve traditional Bhutan culture and food. Even though I had been in Bhutan for almost two weeks already, I tried some very unique Bhutanese dishes at Folk Heritage Museum Restaurant and also got a lesson on how to eat traditional Bhutanese food. This is one of the world’s greatest Bhutanese restaurants and preservations of Bhutanese culture in Thimphu.
Here are some of the main Bhutanese dishes we ate:
Suja - herbal butter tea
Sweet buckwheat
Bitter buckwheat noodles
Dried fiddlehead ferns
Roasted barley dough
Bamboo shoots and fermented beans
Dried beef with fermented yak cheese
Sikam paa - dried pork with chilies
Chanterelle mushrooms
Ema datshi - chillies and cheese
Bhutanese chicken curry
Kewa datshi - potatoes and cheese
After our huge Bhutanese food lunch we had some Indian food with Matt including some momos and paratha for dinner.
It was a great day of food in Thimphu, Bhutan!
Disclosure:
It was an honor to be invited by MyBhutan to visit Bhutan to explore Bhutanese food and culture. Thank you to MyBhutan Productions for making my trip and this video possible!
Do you want to explore Bhutanese cuisine in Bhutan? Go to food.mybhutan.com to book your exclusive food tour with MyBhutan.
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Glad you are showing some vegetarian things without cheese. Although I like cheese, I cannot eat it everyday. When it's too much cheese, my digestion says Yak.

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I dont think the yak is fermented its the yak cheese that is fermented

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Taste "woody", Mark meant it wasn't good tasting, the cook was right there so he had to say that. he was being respectful to her and being kind. No reason to be mean or ugly, even if it taste like a fermented Bhutanese fart, lol!! We understood what he was saying to those who know his ways, when he enjoys something.

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At almost the end of this video, that beef rolls were really like treats. Wonderful and beautifully tasty videos. Thanks Mark.

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Your expression tells us all..Emma dachi is my favorite too

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Ema dhasi smell weird to me n I never test but ma friend dorjee loves that ....

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I'm starving now lol

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So much of love from Bhutan...

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The owner was laughing at Mark's signature reaction 😂

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Hey Mark, this reminds me, did you try Axone ( fermented soyabean) with pork when you were in Nagaland? It's truly one of the best things ever provided you develop the taste :D

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U make me appreciate my country food....so nice of u....

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Excited for your trip to the Philippines! My home country..

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I tasted all of them

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Looks very delicious.....keep sharing your videos !!

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Its the "Bhutan way"

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