Tibetan Butter Tea - Po cha

Butter tea https://www.greattibettour.com/tibetan-culture/tibetan-butter-tea.html is the favorite drink of Tibetans. A legend is that Princess Wencheng was not used to the diet of the plateau upon her arrival to Tibet, so she figured out a way to drink half a cup of milk and then half a cup of tea when eating so that it will feel more comfortable. Since then, the tea-drinking style has prevailed in Tibet. Later, butter tea invented by Princess Wencheng based on this became a new way of drinking tea.

Butter tea is the Tibetan daily essential drink and also a necessity of lives on the Tibetan plateau. High in calories, it tastes pure and sweet. This special tea is good for health, especially it’s effective in treating altitude sickness, preventing lips from breaking due to dry weather, and also keeping out the cold. There are certain rules for Tibetans to drink butter tea, which is generally added while drinking, rather than being dried up in one mouth.