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Butter tea, also known as po cha (Tibetan: བོད་ཇ་, Wylie: bod ja, "Tibetan tea"), cha süma (Tibetan: ཇ་སྲུབ་མ་, Wylie: ja srub ma, "churned tea"), Mandarin Chinese: sūyóu chá (酥油茶) or gur gur in local Ladakhi terms, is a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India and Bhutan and most famously, Tibet. Traditionally, it is made from tea leaves, yak butter, water, and salt.
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Yak butter is butter made from the milk of the domesticated yak (Bos grunniens). It is a staple food item and trade item for herding communities in south Central Asia and the Tibetan Plateau.
Many different political entities have communities of herders who
produce and consume yak's dairy products including cheese and butter –
for example, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, and Tibet.
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If you're drinking yak butter tea, you need a tea pot for it . . .
yak butter tea pot
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