Picnic!
So this would be Lunch #3 for us.
Until you have been on a Bhutanese picnic, you will never appreciate how many chillis and bags of rice could be consumed in an afternoon.
Many dishes appeared out of nowhere - the food was sublime!
For drinks, there was the option of eggs cooked in Ara (imagine scrambled egg stirred into bowl of vodka, and then drizzle some vegetable oil over the top) or very strong beer, we started slightly feebly with the X-strong beer (It was only lunch-time, afterall).
In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding some border land. Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907; three years later, a treaty was signed wher... ... read more 
