Tired from a day of tour guiding and tending to his bamboo plantation, Pussang Punyo returns home for a pint of rice beer with tapyo (pronounced tup-yo). A homemade salt, tapyo adds a tartness to the drink, balancing out the sweetness. “My aunt made it at home,” says Punyo of tapyo. “It took her about a week. She made it especially for my friends who are visiting over the weekend as we plan to make pike pila” (a dish traditionally used as a chutney and highly regarded by the Apatanis)….
