TTEW

Well it has been a very long time again. I have meanwhile made my third trip to Yushu this summer (this time with my father) and have a lot of things to write about, now I just need to find/make the time to do so.

The first thing on my list is something that made me smile when I saw it. We were in Yushu town and came back from a restaurant. It was already dark at this point, which is probably why I noticed the neon letters on the building next to our hotel (which probably is some kind of night club): "Tsampa Tibetan Entertainment World". In itself nothing funny about that, just the combination of words is about the most unlikely one I can think of. For those of you don't know what Tsampa is, I better explain that. Tsampa is a breakfast dish that is very common in Tibet. It is roast barley flower mixed into butter tea, so it becomes a dough like substance. It is the most basic breakfast you can think of. The flavour is good and I really quite enjoy it. But hopefully you can see that combination of "Tsampa" and "Entertainment World" is really quite an unusual one.