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 the 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 withchilies - 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!
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Great post. Learning so much about Bhutanese cuisine was very interesting.
Thank you. I love learning about different cuisines too.
The most amazing Bhutanese food I had was at local Bhutanese homes across Bhutan. I hope to make more trips to Bhutan in the future, as I have fallen in love with the country, and its people.
Wow! having Bhutanese food from locals themselves, you must have learnt quite a lot about Bhutanese cuisine.
We didn’t get to eat at the museum, but we travelled Bhutan by road for two weeks. We were camping and had cooks with us. Great food and authentic.
Must have been a great adventure. Thanks for sharing your travel experience to Bhutan.
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