Bread soup it also includes liver sausage or blood sausage. Another common version of the dish is prepared from the broth remaining from the steeping of sausage during home butchering of pigs. The soup is then traditionally seasoned with marjoram. An Italian variation, which is called "millefanti", also uses egg and Parmesan cheese. Some fine variations are containing wine. Other (more rustic) versions are containing malt or beer. Bread soup "Bread soup" is a simple soup, that mainly consists of stale bread. Variations exist in many countries, and it is often eaten during Lent. Bread soups are created as well with brown
Tibetan culture dumplings). "Balep" is Tibetan bread eaten for breakfast and lunch. There many other types of balep bread and fried pies. "Thukpa" is noodle soup. It consists of noodles of various shapes, vegetables, and meat in broth. Tibetan cuisine is traditionally served with bamboo chopsticks, in contrast to other Himalayan cuisines which are eaten by hand. Small soup bowls are also used by Tibetans, and the rich are known to have used bowls of gold and silver. Since only a few crops grow at such high altitudes, many features of Tibetan cuisine are imported, such as tea, rice and others. Meat