Authentic Bhutanese Foods + SHOCKING Village of FERTILITY Tour | Punakha, Bhutan
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My third day in Bhutan began with breakfast at the Happiness Field Village Homestay in the city of Punakha. After that, I’d visit a unique local village and monastery!
My traditional breakfast included some rice porridge and an amazing, sticky, risotto-like fried rice with ezay, which is a spicy chili salsa. The ezay added a lot of heat to the rice porridge. Overall, the spice level was maybe an 8/10. I finished up with milk tea (chai) with ginger.
Then, I met up with my driver, Nidup, and my guide Tsheten, both from MyBhutan. We arrived in the village of Sipsikha, a town of less than 1,000 where phalluses are painted on every house and restaurant as a symbol of fertility. The phalluses are all different colors and have eyes. Some even have fangs! They also chase away evil spirits. In the handicraft souvenir shops, they even sell phalluses! The tradition of painting phalluses dates back to the 15th century, when a Tibetan saint who came to Bhutan and subdued evil spirits using his phallus. It was so unique…I’d never seen a place like this!
It takes about 2 minutes to walk through the first part of the village. Between the two parts of the village are rice paddy fields. It’s really beautiful! Past the fields is the second part of the village, where you’ll find a water prayer wheel and many more shops on your way to the Chimi Lhakhang Monastery.
The shops sell phalluses of different sizes, some of which are painted, while others are plain. They also have beautiful paintings, scarves, prayer beads, and masks. The traditional ceramic masks were about 1,500 Nu, or about $19.84 USD.
The architecture in the town was beautiful. We continued on to more fields, where we saw them making mud bricks.
Near Chimi Lhakhang Monastery is a black stupa, where the Lam Drukpa Kuenley, an unconventional Buddhist master known as the Divine Madman captured and subdued a pair of demons who wanted to kill him. There’s also a large prayer wheel and 108 smaller ones.
Inside the temple, I took off my hat and shoes and filmed inside the courtyard. Inside, prayers were in session. There are also students and lots of different types of offerings.
Next, we headed to a nunnery, but it was closed, so we headed to Chimi Lhakhang Organic Café, a rustic, wood café that offers amazing views of the paddy fields, village, and mountains.
I had a Druk lager, red rice, ema dashti, vegetable soup, dried beef sausage with chilies, and dried pork with spinach and chilies.
The ema dashti was spicy and delicious and contained mushrooms. The green chilies are really hot, but the red ones aren’t so bad. The red rice really helped calm down the heat. The beef sausage contained some chili seeds and chili oil. It was nice and crunchy. You eat them with the ezay, which also contains onions.
The vegetable soup was light and cloudy and contained spinach but no spice. Then, I went for the dried pork. It was mostly gelatinous pork fat with a bit of meat. You eat it with the spinach and chilies. The gelatin falls apart in your mouth, and the sautéed spinach and chili combination was really nice. The layer of meat was hard to bite through, though.
The ema dashti was my favorite. It’s one of my favorite dishes on the planet now! It has a consistency similar to spinach dip. The chilies in the sausages felt like numbing Szechwan peppers. My least favorite was the meat layer in the pork, but it was still nice. The sausages were so good that I got a second plate!
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I’ve been to Bhutan. I love the food, specially emma datsi.
your Bhutan series is so amazing. so much traditional food, fast food, their culture everything is so interesting. 😊😊
I’m a Bhutanese and even I can’t eat ema datsi like the way you do hahahaha and your guide should have taught you the right way to eat that pork dish 😅 we usually separate the fats from the hard part, eat the soft ones with the rice and the hard meat at last like a chewing gum 😅 loved all your videos. Love from Bhutan 🇧🇹
Thank you for visiting our country Bhutan and experiencing our food and culture.
Peace loving country n tasty food, love to go there again. Thankyou for showing Bhutan 🇧🇹 love it.
Great vlog as always, Dave! Such a beautiful country ❤️
Wow delicious food my friend.
I wouldn’t be able to keep a straight face walking through that phallus village, think I would give the souvenir shop a miss too 😂....great vid dude!
Thank you for being Bhutan and showing it to the world... the foods... god, cant help missing home. Plus, you are the first foreigner as per my opinion to always finish the ema datshi and ezay...
Hey mate, thankyou for visiting my country. I hope Bhutan is treating u well. Well, just wanted to recommend u to try fish curry Bhutanese style (sichuan pepper a must but take care of the fish bones) and Baathup aswell. Keep updating us, I miss home so much.
Wow chilli everywhere ... It's great
The food there looks mighty tasty ! The fried rice looks wonderful
I had been watching all video and it was very nice .....all the way from Bhutan.anyway welcome Bhutan and enjoy
Good to see you again David hope you will visit us again🧡 from Meghalaya
The magic thunderbolt!!! I'm renaming my Johnson to this.
Amazing bro very nice vlog
Bhutan is my kind of place......no crowd, no traffic, no pollution, pure solitude....gud fr mind nd body
I love the autentic culture and food! ❤🌶💪
David's my hero! Oh yeah.