our first lunch in Bhutan

we arrived in the capital city of thimpu, and they took us directly to lunch of traditional Bhutanese food. 

everything was really fabulous, and we went back for seconds! 

locally grown red rice, buckwheat noodles and dumplings, pumpkin with garlic, ground meat, sautéed veggies, and the local specialty of chili with cheese. 

the local cautiously gave us "chilips" (foreigners) a taster version of the chili's with warnings that it was very spicy... but we gobbled then up, and went back for more. just the right amount of flavorful spicy! so good.