Bagthuk

This rich potato soup with wholemeal hand-cut noodles will warm you up, give you energy and fill you up too. I love the garlic chives and sichuan peppercorns: they are both very strongly flavoured, but make this soup unique.

I have not been to Bhutan, but I have visited Sikkim and the Hindu Kush mountains, as well as Darjeeling and Srinagar, all hill stations. In such places the locals are hardy, and things take on their own life: the climate is cooler, the air is fresh, the terrain