While in Skardu, I was invited to a Balti cultural centre where I got to meet refugees who lost their homes during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. There, I got to try all their traditional foods; they were like nothing I'd ever tried before!

The dishes I tried included Balay (Noodle Soup w/ Goat Meat), Zabkhoor (Buckwheat Cake w/ Butter), Prapu (Wheat Pasta w/ Walnut Paste), Zerchung (Donut), Kahwa (Green Tea), Marzan (Buckwheat w/ Apricot Oil), Bekgas (Buckwheat w/ Butter), Kisir (Buckwhat Pancake), Pharing Cho (Dried Apricot Soup), Mantu (Dumplings), Organic Fruit Chaat, and Achhar (Pickled Cabbage).

If you enjoyed that, don't miss my tour of an organic village in this region    • What’s Life Really Like Across the Lo...  .

00:00 How'd these people end up here?
01:51 Balay
02:30 Zabkhoor
03:06 Clothes & Jewellery
03:42 Prapu
04:58 Zerchung
06:17 Marzan
06:55 Bekgas
07:37 Kisir
08:12 Pharing Cho
08:50 Mantu
09:45 Acchar
10:11 Handicrafts market
11:18 What did I buy?

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