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Tongba

तोङबा

Hot fermented millet beer sipped through a bamboo straw

Nepal Wine & spirit Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Hot water poured over fermented millet in a wooden vessel and drunk through a bamboo straw; a Limbu and Rai drink of eastern Nepal.

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What is Tongba?

Tongba is a wine & spirit from Nepal: hot fermented millet beer sipped through a bamboo straw. Hot water poured over fermented millet in a wooden vessel and drunk through a bamboo straw; a Limbu and Rai drink of eastern Nepal.

Made with

millet

Cooked

fermentedbrewed

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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