We eat a lot of this super-warming and flavoursome soup at home. In Tibet, it would be made with yak meat and dried pork; Yeshi finds that beef and bacon are the closest he can get outside the region. Smoked ham also makes a good substitute for the dried pork. Although the pork isn’t intentionally smoked in Tibet, it’s hung to dry near the fire, where it naturally absorbs the flavour, becoming blackened from the