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Butter Tea

Also known as Po Cha, Bö Ja, Su You Cha, Gur Gur Cha

Dark tea · Tea drink · China (Tibet), Bhutan, Nepal, India · Tibetan

Tea churned with butter and salt, an everyday drink across the Himalaya. Traditionally it is made from brick tea or long-boiled pu-erh with yak butter. In Tibet it became popular around the 13th century.

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