What is "tsampa"

Usage examples of "tsampa".

I gulped my tsampa and leaped to my feet, and so did my two escorts, while the noise echoed and reechoed from all the mountains around.

Later on, I got so I could eat tsampa, never with enjoyment, but at least without violent repugnance.

The captain of the guard respectfully invited us to dismount and share some of their cold rations of dried meat and tsampa balls.

Though the swooping blurs of brown and green contained whole forests of full-sized trees and countless boulders as big as houses, they looked, from where we stood, like cascades of dirty, gritty, lumpy tsampa porridge being poured down the sides of a giant tureen to puddle in its bottom, and the towering clouds of dust they raised on the way looked like the steam rising from that tsampa porridge.

The Tibetans make a special cult of tsampa and have many ways of preparing it.

For the moment we were treated most generously, receiving parcels of tsampa, meal, butter, and tea.

The poor man lives generally on tsampa, butter tea, and a few radishes with some paprika.

The food was tsampa and momo -- a roasted barley mixed into zygoat-buttered tea, forming a paste that one rolled into balls and ate with other balls of steamed dough holding mushrooms, cold zygoat tongue, sugared bacon, and bits of pears that A.

As we munched on fried balls of tsampa and drank delicious tea, the Dorje Phamo laughed and told us the story.