Butter tea

Butter tea
Butter tea in a bowl
Alternative namesBoe cha, cha süma, goor goor cha, cha suskan
TypeBeverage
Place of originCentral Asia, Tibet, China
Region or stateSouth/Central/East Asia and Caribbean
Main ingredientsTea leaves, yak butter, salt

Butter tea, also known as Bho jha (Tibetan: བོད་ཇ་, Wylie: bod ja, "Tibetan tea"), cha süma (Tibetan: ཇ་སྲུབ་མ་, Wylie: ja srub ma, "churned tea", Mandarin Chinese: sūyóu chá (), su ja (Tibetan: སུ་ཇ, Wylie: Suja, "churned tea") in Dzongkha, gur gur cha in the Ladakhi language) and Su Chya in the Sherpa language, is a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, East Turkestan, Tibet and western regions of modern-day China and Central Asia. Traditionally, it is made from tea leaves, yak butter, water, and salt, although butter made from cow's milk is increasingly used, given its wider availability and lower cost.