zho's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Our food in this hospitable house was simple: apricots, fresh, or dried and stewed with honey; zho's milk, curds and cheese, sour cream, peas, beans, balls of barley dough, barley porridge, and 'broth of abominable things. Chang, a dirty-looking beer made from barley, was offered with each meal, and tea frequently, but I took my own 'on the sly. I have mentioned a churn as part of the 'plenishings' of the living-room.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - Among the Tibetans