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Butter tea

Salted tea churned with butter, closer to a thin soup than a drink. You'll be offered it in homes and monasteries.

Plan a trip around butter tea
Butter tea. Photo taken in Ladakh, India.
Butter teaLaura Blankenship, CC BY-SA 2.0

Where to have it

Leh, Nubra, PangongSalted tea churned with butter, closer to a thin soup than a drink. You'll be offered it in homes and monasteries.TawangSalty tea churned with yak butter. Have it near the monastery.