12 - Tibetan Yak Meat & Butter Tea

While in Chengdu, as it's only 3 hours away from Tibet, we went out for a group lunch to sample some true Tibetan food. There were only two of us game enough to try some butter tea, which at first was quite disgusting, but with some sugar added, became quite delicious - I ended up having about 7 cups of it, quite certain I would suffer quite a bit of extra weight as a result. The food was interesting, not sure if I’d call it tasty. We started with some really delicious rice fried with some kind of chive & some tiny pieces of yak meat. Then there were these balls of something that looked a bit like truffles, but I preferred my title of ground yak balls, which made them look even more ominous than they already did. There was quite a bit of yak at the table really - yak meat pieces (too over cooked for my liking), yak meat sausage encased in yak intestine (tasted okay), & a yak meat hotpot. The only vegetables served were some potatoes, nothing else I could remember anyway.