This beverage, also known as butter tea, is extremely popular with Tibetan people, as well as people of Bhutan, Nepal, some regions of India and China. According to the original recipe this tea is made of tea leaves, yak milk, yak butter and salt. The consistency of this beverage resembles that of cream soup.

This drink is on the menu of all Tibetan people. Each person has on average five or six mugs of the tea every day.

Tea leaves are stewed in yak (or cow) milk for several hours, than the mixture is poured into a special churn called 'donmo' where together with butter and salt it is beaten till the consistency of thick cream.