How Tibetan Yak Butter Tea is Made - also I try to milk a yak!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Join us in Shangri-La as we show you how the Tibetans drink tea. Butter tea made from yak butter holds deep cultural significance with the Tibetan people. We'll take you to a modern Tibetan how to see how most make it these days. We'll show you how it was traditionally made. Finally we'll show you how yak butter itself is made.
If you want to give Tibetan Butter Tea a try in your home we sell the exact same bricks they use in this video on our site: crimsonlotuste...
You can substitute a quality grass fed cow butter for the yak butter and it is pretty darn close! Post a video of yourself trying it.
I made this with Amish butter 🧈 it was great . Im hooked now. Lol 😆
You would fit in well with my wife's family. :-D
@@CrimsonLotusTea thank you
I love how the Yaks are free and come back because they want to, pure symbiosis...beautiful!
I know! It's really cool.
What a super fun and educational video! I love this experience and seeing how other cultures do tea! Good job Glen and Lamu, and thank you. Lamu, your family is as delightful as you are!
Approximating the recipe with ghee right now - and I just realized that I added too much ghee and salt into the blender while waiting for the steep/boil to finish.
Oh well, there’s always next time to get it right!
So cool seeing how grandpa makes the traditional tea!
That's how they've made it since forever!
That yak : " Sorry I don't know you"
Pretty much. She was having none of it that day.
Very informative video Glen! Thank you, Grandfather and Auntie for letting us into your homes!
They're always so generous. I love visiting them!
I'm also going there and around Yunnan in a couple of weeks! Very interesting to see the various home-made ways to prepare butter tea, especially the grandpa style. The taste is very different from normal tea, I like to drink some but after a few I find it becomes a bit too heavy for me. I'd definitely recommend everybody to try it out if they have the chance to try a good one. I also had the chance to try a bad one, in northern Sichuan, which I wouldn't recommend, it was supposed to be a "matcha" version made from powder, but it just tasted like a bad soup from powder. And the real one looks quite easy to make anyway.
It is an intense experience. It's not like what I would have thought. It can be pretty strong.
Glen, This was a great video, really enjoyed it. I was neat to see how other parts of the world live and eat. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you for the informative and entertaining video. I enjoyed it very much!
You're welcome!
Dogs going nuts when the herd comes home and the yaks are all like *strooollll*.
I had butter tea when staying at a monastery in Nepal and didn't appreciate it then, too salty! Probably needed to think of it as broth rather than tea.
All in all the yaks were pretty chill. They just do their thing all day and come home when they're done. You're right, thinking of it as broth helps. So does the barley powder.
Very interesting. I really enjoyed seeing your family and life in Tibet. It is really interesting to see where the whole “Bulletproof” coffee idea came from. It was also fun watching Milking lessons.
Thanks for watching. I was not very good at milking a yak...
@@CrimsonLotusTea It’s not something many of us grow up with in the states, I think you can give yourself a break on that one.
Glenn, I'm a little jealous that you get to try the REAL Yak Butter Tea! The only one I've been able to try (since Yak butter isn't really all that available in Ohio ) is the powdered kind that Scott at Yunnan Sourcing used to carry it. I'm guessing that he had it as a novelty but even the instant had in my opinion a pleasant taste. While not traditional, I liked it! While Scott doesn't have it any more, others still sell it in both blue (sweetened) and red (salted) styles. I may have to see if my local International Market has ever had any requests for Yak butter. They may actually be able to follow through with it. I know that I have plenty of puerh tea (looks like they always uses the raw not ripe tea) and Scott still sells a couple of the Tibetan Flame tea both in brick and mushroom form. Thanks for the history and the making of the tea lessons.
This is the exact same tea they use in the video: crimsonlotustea.com/products/2013-xiaguan-holy-flame-sheng-raw-puerh-free-shipping That and some quality grass fed cow butter will be super close to what they make in Tibet. You won't be able to get yak butter in the US because the FDA won't allow it. I've tried. We've done it in Seattle with grass fed cow butter and Lamu says it's nearly identical.
Crimson Lotus Tea Thanks for the tip Glenn I know where I can actually find some really good grass fed organic butter! I’m hoping I’ll ask but I trust you when you say that the USDA won’t let Yak butter come into the US. If you guys can’t get it out west we probably won’t get here in the Midwest all. Kind of funny though that we have all these GMO’s that we make here and other countries don’t want those and I’m definitely with them on that one! I try to check everything that I pick up at the store to make sure that there aren’t any GMO‘s in it. Thanks for the tip again and yes it was very educational video!
Wow, that was super interesting, definitely not something you see every day.
How different is yak butter compared to the regular butter (of really good quality, given that yak butter shown in the video is clearly top-notch homemade stuff)? I was also surprised by the amount of butter that was used, for some reason I expected that yak butter tea had way more butter in it. You know, come to think of it, I had a blender lying in a drawer somewhere, and I have a sample of a fairly harsh and smokey sheng. Hmmm...
Yak butter compared to cow butter is noticeably more musky. It's not bad though. I was surprised too. They really don't add a lot. You should give it a go. You can make a good approximation with a quality grass fed cow butter.
Awesome video! I really love this one!! I may not be able to go to China, but if I could this is exactly the type of stuff I'd love to see and learn about. Thank you for sharing this :)
Love the family interactions❤❤❤
Me too, family is so important in Tibetan culture. There are always a ton of family around.
You connected with my heart when you referenced "Lost Horizon", my favorite movie of all time.
It is hard to spend any time in those mountains and not think about that movie!
Great video! I'd love to try that stuff sometime.
Great video!
Thank you!
I drink butter coffee with heavy cream every day. Great taste. What does a home stay cost in your area? How do you find a homestay? My house Hainan.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. What do you mean about homestay?
Homestay is where you stay in someone's home rather than in a hotel to get the LOCAL experience rather than the tourist experience
@@martinsinclair55 I know what homestay is I just don't understand your question. Are you looking for a homestay opportunity in China? I'm sorry, I don't really know anything about that.
@@martinsinclair55 travel, spend in their ecomomy and make friends. Thats how u get the local experience. Not by trying to travel to use natives.
Sheng? Is it because these are Tibetans living in Yunnan? I've always thought that Tibetan tea is heicha from Sichuan (Ya'an etc.)
They can and do use sheng or shou or heicha. Depending on what is cheapest and most available. Tibetan areas closer to Sichuan likely use more heicha.
@@CrimsonLotusTea That makes sense, thanks for replying! Btw, do they ever drink tea straight? Or is it always either butter tea or sweet milk tea?
Where do you get brick tea
We sell the exact tea we brew in this video here: crimsonlotustea.com/products/2013-xiaguan-holy-flame-sheng-raw-puerh Let me know if you have any questions about it!
im acually very curious about the cheese... can you give more info on that?
I can try. What would you like to know?
Crimson Lotus Tea I mean how do they make it, I've searched all over and can't find any information on it at all!
Oh I see. I don't entirely know all the details. I watched them make it, but the explanation was all in Chinese. Email me: crimsonlotustea@gmail.com and I can try to find out more info for you when we are back in China this year.
Himalayan salt please !