![]() ![]() ![]() The other must try drink in Bhutan is their Suja or the butter tea. Just to score brownie points, Bhutanese also cook other vegetables with cheese, be it their kewa datshi (potato cheese curry) or shamu datshi (mushroom cheese curry), these lip smacking curries are a must try when one is in Bhutan. It lingers on your palate even long after the food is consumed. The curry goes well with a plate of rice and truly the cheese chilli curry is a bowl full of flavours. Ema DatshiĮma Datshi is succulent combination of spicy chillies cooked in cheesy gravy. Though I am not a huge fan of chillies, the mere mention of cheese in the name (Datshi means cheese, Ema means chilli) was sufficient enough to draw me towards the dish. Yes, that’s how the name of the dish sounds! Fancy it is! Bhutanese call this chilli cheese curry by that name which also happens to be the national food of Bhutan. But the foodie in me can never settle until I had the dish tasted, hence gearing up with all the needed antacids, I ordered a plate of “Ema Datshi”. It is the hero of the dish and not a seasoning.įor a person who is at spice level zero( on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the least) this came as a shocking surprise. Bhutan is a country where the rice is red and chillies are considered as a vegetable and not a spice. ![]() I have heard about thermal wear and layered clothing to beat the cold weather, but Bhutanese eat their body warmers. ![]()
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