Mmm Mmm Good

Tonight we ate buff momos at dinner. Afterwards, i said that I smelled butter, K said it smelled like cheese and it turned out Maya was eating cheese soup at the other end of the kitchen. Then Tsering said to Loppon that he had heard in Tibet, people eat rotten cheese with worms in it. Loppon seemed appalled and said that what Tsering had heard was false! asking him, "Would you eat that?" "No, rotten cheese is not good!" Loppon exclaimed, "But rotten intestines are very good!" he concluded. "What?" I yelped, aghast. And he proceeded to tell how Khampas make the most delicious of foods...

They grind up kidney, liver and lungs and then shove it into the baglike stomach of a dead animal. Then, they put the stomach back in the dead animal (usually a sheep) whose head is cut off, sewing the carcass up. Next, they put the animal in a very warm place and let it stay there 2 or 3 months. Finally, they hang it above the stove for a while so it smokes. Then, voila! delicious rotten intestines to eat with thenthuk!