🛍️ Bhutanese products
Authentic Bhutanese products and the shops that sell them — hand-woven textiles, traditional food, artisanal crafts and sacred art. We list where to buy, you deal directly with the shop.
🍯 Food & Drink
Bhutanese red rice
Paro valley
Semi-milled short-grain rice with a nutty, earthy flavour — a Bhutanese staple.
3 shops
from $4–$15
🍯 Food & Drink
Ara — traditional rice & maize spirit
Rural Bhutan
Home-distilled Bhutanese liquor — rice, maize, wheat or millet, often herb-infused.
2 shops
from $5–$25
🍯 Food & Drink
Chugo — hardened yak cheese
Phobjikha, Bumthang, Laya
Rock-hard yak cheese that lasts months — chewed slowly like a Bhutanese jerky.
2 shops
from $3–$12
🍯 Food & Drink
Cliff honey — Bumthang
Bumthang, Trongsa
Wild honey harvested from Himalayan rhododendron forests at 2,500m+.
2 shops
from $18–$60
Exporting from Bhutan
Most products can be taken out as personal luggage. Restrictions apply to religious art older than 100 years, cordyceps beyond personal-use quantities, and certain cultural antiquities. Your shop should provide an export certificate if required.