Dishes that you should try when you visit Sikkim
When you visit a new place, you always stay in a mood to explore new things and have newer experiences. Especially amidst the cold weather and scenic beauty that welcomes the morning a little early in the mountains, just a walk around the market area of places like Sikkim will give you a mouth-watering experience. Well, if you are a traveler, you should know that traveling does not only happen when you see a new place, click a few pictures and mark some destinations on the Google map. Travelling also happens when your taste buds get to taste something that they had never tasted in the past. Well, on holiday, when you travel to a new place, you will definitely not carry food with you unless you are allergic to Sikkim street dishes.
So, from the moment you plan a trip to Sikkim, your mouth must have watered in the thought of momos in that cold weather. But that’s exactly where you miss out on a lot of other things. Sikkim’s dishes is not just about momo’s, and in this blog, you shall get to know about a few of those Sikkim dishes that you should try the next time you plan a trip and take a Sikkim tour package:
Phagshapa
when you visit the hills, you need to be very conscious about the difference in names. Because some are only non-veg dishes, just like this one. It is basically a pork-based Sikkim dish that is served with rice. The dish is served mainly during summer. It does contain its share of heat because of pork. But that is something that you will need for your body as summer in Sikkim is not like the one you experience in the plains.
Chaang
Brewing is not just a profession, but a local tradition and Chaang is local alcohol found in almost all the corners of Sikkim. The climate of a particular place affects the human body to a great extent. For the tourists who visit Sikkim from different corners of India and abroad, the temperature of Sikkim might take its merry little time to settle. Chaang would be a helpful drink, then only if you consume alcohol. It is said to be one of the tastiest alcohol in the area.
Kodo Ko Roti
this is the innovative this that Sikkim owns. It’s a simple dish that comprises of bread and pickle. The most interesting part is the recipe for the dish. They knead the flour/ Kodo and then place it on a banana leaf and then bake it. One of the tastiest local dishe is eaten with aloo dum, which is again made in a very traditional Nepali way with the famous small chilly named Dulley and tomato pickle.
Chhurpi
cheese lovers should prepare for one of the weirdest and pleasant experiences that Sikkim has for your taste buds.no matter how many types of cheese you must have tried in your lifetime Chhurpi is that one type which you will remember for a lifetime. You can find it both in hardened and softened forms. They prepare the cheese with Yak’s milk that can be both brown or white in color. This is a significant dish that you will only find in Sikkim and nowhere else in the entire world as long as finding the authentic ones are concerned.
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So, these are a few dishes that you should not forget the moment you get the steamy smell of momos. Yes, momos are undoubtedly the most loved dish not just in the mountains but in plains also. But you cannot find the dishes mentioned above anywhere else but only in Sikkim. So the next time when you travel to Sikkim for work or on holiday, try all of them.
