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About Yak cheese
Though Tibetans and the Nepalese were historically amongst the few Asians to make use of dairy products at all, they didn't make cheese as we know it and they still don't have much taste for Western-style cheeses.

The cheeses now being made from Yak's milk for export to Western markets, are sold as novelty cheese dog chews and command high prices. Yak Cheese is also being made now in Bhutan, India, Mongolia, Pakistan and Tibet for export to the West in the form of these chhurpi dog chews. Western-style cheeses intended and approved for human consumption are very rare, with only one dairy producing it for export.