Yak butter tea (Bo cha) is the typical non-alcoholic Tibetan beverage, although many Westerners may find the taste rather disgusting! The Tibetan people seem to enjoy putting absolutely everything into their tea including salt, milk, soda, tea leaves, and of course, yak butter! All the ingredients are mixed together with water in a wooden tube and the end result tastes more like soup than ordinary tea. Hospitable Tibetans you meet are likely to offer you a bowl of this tea, which is the very best they have to offer (in their opinion), and it is quite rude to decline!