How to pronounce Butter tea

Butter tea is written 酥油茶 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tɕʰa˥ sup˥ ma/. In plain English letters that is cha SOOP-mah, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Butter tea?

Butter tea is a drink of China. Where it comes from: Tibet. People usually eat it for breakfast. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Butter tea comes from

Butter tea is one of 108 signature dishes of China on this map.

• Tsampa 糌粑 · Main dish · Tibet

  Tsampa is roasted barley flour, the staple food of Tibetans.

• Peking duck 北京烤鸭 · Main dish · Beijing

  Roast duck was eaten in China's imperial kitchens long before it reached Beijing; it is often traced to Nanjing when that city was the Ming capital, and the court brought it north in the 15th century.

• Xiaolongbao 小笼包 · Snack · Nanxiang, Shanghai

  Xiaolongbao are small soup dumplings steamed in the bamboo basket that gives them their name.

• Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 · Main dish · Chengdu, Sichuan

  Mapo tofu is Sichuan cooking in one bowl: soft tofu in a red, oily sauce of fermented broad-bean chilli paste with minced beef and plenty of Sichuan pepper, which leaves the mouth tingling.

• Lanzhou beef noodles 兰州牛肉面 · Noodles & pasta · Lanzhou, Gansu

  In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the old Silk Road, a bowl of beef noodles is breakfast.

• Shengjian mantou 生煎馒头 · Street food · Shanghai

  Shengjian mantou, or simply shengjian, are small pan-fried buns, a speciality of Shanghai and Suzhou.

Food of China

Dishes like Butter tea in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Butter tea:

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• Laphet yay လက်ဖက်ရည် · Drink · All Myanmar, Myanmar

  Laphet yay, "tea liquid", is Burmese milk tea: strongly brewed black tea mixed with evaporated and condensed milk in a ratio each drinker can choose.

• Noon chai नून चाय · Drink · Jammu and Kashmir, India

  Noon chai, also called sheer chai, Kashmiri tea, pink tea or gulabi chai, is a traditional tea drink from Kashmir.

• Egg coffee cà phê trứng · Drink · Hanoi, Vietnam

  Cà phê trứng is strong robusta coffee filtered through a phin and topped with egg yolks whipped with sugar and condensed milk into a thick, sweet cream.