For a delicious Tibetan food meal and more tasty photos, check out my article here http://migrationology.com/2013/06/tibetan-food-gangtok-sikkim-india/
While I was in Gangtok and throughout Northern India, I had many opportunities to sample authentic Tibetan food, there being a huge Tibetan population living in Sikkim province of India. Though I tried a number of different Tibetan restaurants throughout Gangtok, but my favorite was a Taste of Tibet. Located right along the MG Marg walking street in central Gangtok, this restaurant is located on the third story, so while you dine you can also people watch along the street below.
At first I thought Taste of Tibet may be a bit of a tourist restaurant, but after eating there for the first time, I discovered that while some tourist did eat there, it was also a local favorite. There were numerous tables of monks and Tibetans every time I ate there, which was three times in the course of just a few days. So if you’re looking for a good Tibetan food restaurants when you’re in Gangtok, India, be sure to check out Taste of Tibet.
In this video I first started off with a plate of momo dumplings, one of the most popular dishes in that area of the world, both Nepal, Tibet, and India. They are basically Chinese jaozi dumplings that can be ordered with a choice fillings usually vegetarian, chicken, buffalo, or pork. They were piping and fresh when delivered to my table. Along with the killer chili sauce, each dumpling was super flavorful and wonderful. The next dish I ordered was another Tibetan food classic known as shapale, which is basically just a meat pie. The little pastries were filled with meat and then deep fried to a crisp. They were delicious, but again, they needed quite a lot of chili sauce to make the flavor strong and more flavorful. Noodles soups like thukpa and thenthuk are extremely common Tibetan dishes, and since I had already had thukpa a number of times, I decided to try out their thenthuk this time. It consisted of fresh noodles shaved into bite sized pieces and within a thick soup broth with some assorted vegetables. The soup wasn’t all that flavorful, but it needed to be enhanced with soy sauce and chili sauce and some other sauces provided.
Tibetan food is normally served quite plain, they don’t use a lot of spices. However, at every Tibetan restaurant you’ll also find a marvelous chili sauce that will light your mouth on fire if you’re in need of some extra spice. I did enjoy eating Tibetan food, but like I’ve mentioned it need chili sauce. Dishes are even served with little salt, making it up to the eater to determine how much flavor to add.
The total price of my meal at Taste of Tibet came to just $5 and it was a warm and comforting meal on a cold day in Gangtok, India.
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i really love ur videos. .
Mr.Mark..
much love from India (Sikkim)
Love watching Mark’s channel…. however I get slightly annoyed because he rarely taste the food prior to loading it down with Chili peppers & Sauces? You can’t get the natural flavors of what foods taste like, unless you at least try them in their natural state of being cooked! That’s like eating Butter, Garlic & Herb Chicken… but before I even taste it, I smother it with hot sauce! It defeats the purpose of ordering the dish.
Taste of Tibet in sikkim is my best???
We want you to see again in Sikkim
I love ur show…
Use chopsticks!!
Putting chilli in momo soups…. That's really my style!! I do that all the time!!!!!
Wow it's feeling really good to watch this episode coz im from #GANGTOK #SIKKIM #INDIA……??????????
I’m Tibetan =) my real name is Samten
Naive kid – making videos – please hire someone – you're really looking child – "a kid" – Native Asians like me jokes on that – not only me
Please in the future, do NOT cross contaminat by touching the sauce spoons to your food.
You haven't changed a bit well done for being so natural person.
Whats the name of the restaurant ??
You came to our place. ?????
You know you have crossed into the Indian side of the Indo-China border when you are served chilli sauce instead of soy sauce.
I prefer the baozi over momo. They used to make great ones when I was a kid in Shillong(Meghalaya, India)a long time ago.
Mark wiens plz come to south India in particular Tamil nadu Lot's of traditional dishes are their.
Don't fall off every time you eat.sit straight,eat and talk,it looks nice.
i bet first bite killed him LOL
u are face tatti??
Nice video
I'm from Sikkim now I'm in south India studying awwww I miss taste of Tibet restaurant ?
Tibetan food isn't spicy. But its incredibly healthy.
Just call it as Momos please.. Momos dumplings sounds like foreign food. We have grown up by calling them Momos.
-chili man
part of india and filled with nepalese people i clearly can hear nepalese women speaking Nepali
its nice see you have spicy chilli
Makr hold u,p so you're telling me that you ordered sha bhakleb or the "meat pies" and the momo without getting them in beef or yak. I assure you beef or yak is the best with those dishes.
good morning my friend
amsooolovin dumplings–the round one are "beef siomai" in the philippines–my fave..with sour calamansi (like small lemon) soy sauce..shrimp sauce and chilis as dip–wow food!!!
..beautiful video!
luk bro we Nepali r angry wid u sikim n Darjeeling belongs wid nepal I told u in another reaction also go n check history how India get our land by illegally so now we r angry wid u plz dnt ….. n luk ur back they all r talking Nepali all r luk
0:50 When you realise that the sauce was extremely spicy and you should have taken less.
what is the name of that restaurant??? man I went their 3 months ago ….I don't find such type of restaurant??
its hotel tibet kitchen.
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mark u ate hot hot momos ?? u would have cut them into half first ?
You are the king of food porn
grow som moustache
oooo wow u were there …that's my home town ….
You look Like David Luiz broda!!
I never ever ever EVER EVERRR eat momos with chilli sauce.