Waiting for Take-Out at The Tibet Kitchen

The Tibet Kitchen is a fairly new take-out restaurant (although you could eat there as well as there is a little counter space). The food is excellent, the owners are delightful (and Tibetan, of course) and I don't think they have been discovered yet. Give them a try! They are located on the NW corner of Folsom and Arapahoe next to Subway.

Waiting for Take-Out at The Tibet Kitchen

I’d never seen Tibetan MTV before.
The singer looked to be a Westerner,
dressed in her silk blouse, her raven black
hair blown back from her face, her lyrics
close captioned in Tibetan characters.
Instead of hip gyrating punkers in the background,
prayer flags flapped on stupas, Tibetan
cowboys thundered across high Tibetan
plateaus or practiced rodeo stunts in
small dusty corrals. Majestic Himalayan
peaks provided a backdrop to ethnic
festivals, colorfully populated with men
and women wearing fantastically ornate
hats and capes. The cashier told me that
the music was a popular national song
about how beautiful Tibet and its customs
are, but there are no English subtitles
because they cannot learn English there,
they must learn Chinese, they are not free.
His smile seemed to belie his sadness.
The Tibetan people, he told me, are nonetheless
an amazing people because they can create a life
full of joy around one single speck of happiness.