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Food

“Sikkim’s Treat for your Taste Buds”

Sikkimese cuisine shows a strong Nepali and Tibetan influence with a few unique peculiarities. Rice is the staple diet along with lightly flavored and often boiled/steamed meat and vegetables. We recommend that you let lose your taste buds to enjoy:

  • The Tibetan Momos
  • Thukpa, the noodle soup
  • Kinema, traditional fermented soya bean
  • Chhurpi a fermented dairy product
  • Bamboo delicacies like Mesu and Tama

Traditional Entrées

Sikkim’s cuisine is said to have a restrained and subdued flavor as in comparison to the other exceedingly seasoned and tangy Indian delicacies. You can have a taste of some ancestral and traditional delicacies like Pork Gyari, Churpi or Pork Ping.

Beverages

To tip-off of an ambrosial essence, Sikkimese doesn’t mind sipping liquor. We strongly recommend tasting Raksi, a homemade drink, which is blended to perfection using rice. With its tepid taste, it surely will kick off your taste buds.

Chaang, a local beer, is widely available in Sikkim. You can easily find assorted varieties of the same which varies depending upon the quality of rice used in its making. It’s another version is called Kodo Ko Chaang which is brewed from Millet.

What Our Client Says

  • "As tour manager of Joe Far Tours I want to thank you for the great services my group received during Oracle-festivals from March 11 - 20, 2011. We stayed in the best hotel of town with good central heating and excellent food and service, had new cars with friendly and helpful drivers and a very experienced local guide Tashi. Besides that you personally came to check everything! Your service even included a reserved area with chairs during festival, lunch and hot tea.

    Thanks again and I am looking forward to your services in Changthang in July 2011."

    Prof. Hans Först
    Executive Director-Tours
    Joe Far Tours/Vienna/Austria

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  • I wanted to take this opportunity to thanks you, your brother Peter and your staff for a delightful stay in Ladakh. It was a pleasure to get to know Tashi and we all enjoyed seeing the scenery, temples and towns of the region. I especially appreciated you and your company's flexibility in helping us with our changing plans.

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    We had a wonderful experience with you and would recommend it to anyone.

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    Real Estate Development