Monthly Archives: December 2009

Khule

In Cuisine, Chhume | Updated: December 4, 2015 4:55 pm

Flat pancakes made of sweet or bitter buckwheat without any yeast and cooked on a griddle. Eaten with butter, salt, […]

In Cuisine, Chhume | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

A kind of buckwheat polenta, made by pouring buckwheat flour into hot water. It is eaten with butter, salt, chillies, […]

In Cuisine, Chhoekhor | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

The production of a white beer (weiss bier) called Red Panda was started in Bumthang in the late 1990s by […]

In Traditional Healing & Practices, Bhutan | Updated: September 11, 2017 10:59 pm

In Bhutan, traditional healers have different names pawo, pamo, terdag, nyeljom, lhapa, jankhri, bonpo, but all are comparable to mediums […]

In General, Chhume | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

The Chhume valley with an average altitude of 2,600 metres (8,860 feet), is a wide valley dotted with villages and […]

In General, Bumthang | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

Bumthang is the name given to the area encompassing four valleys: Chhume, Chhoekhor, Tang and Ura. Their altitudes vary from […]

In Cuisine, Chhoekhor | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

Producing Fruit brandies resembling schnapps was started in Bumthang in the 1970s by Fritz Maurer, a Swiss man settled in […]

In Cuisine, Chhume | Updated: December 7, 2015 4:25 pm

Any kind of grain is used to make alcohol, wheat, barley, millet, rice, maize or buckwheat depending on the region. […]

In Cuisine, Chhoekhor | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

Bottled apple juice was started in Bumthang in the 1970s by Fritz Maurer, a Swiss man settled in Bumthang.

In Daily Life, Bumthang | Updated: August 13, 2013 1:57 pm

The daily life in Bumthang still revolves very much about agriculture and livestock rearing with weaving as a supplementary activity. […]