Butter (arguably) makes everything better – even tea. For Chime Dhorje, who works at Café Himalaya in New York City, the butter in the cup of tea before him ideally comes from a yak. Yak butter tea is ...

“That’s definitely the weirdest thing I’ve had all year,” my dining companion admitted. “I’m not saying I don’t like it but I’m not sure I do.” He was talking about Tibetan butter tea, and though it ...

Former Traveler staffer Ashley Thompson gives us a glimpse of travel and food in Western China. Out the bus window, the Wild West of China began to unfurl, as did lush peaks towering over muddy rivers ...