Restaurants are relatively scarce and most tourists eat in their hotels. Meals are often buffet-style and mostly vegetarian.
Rice is ubiquitous, sometimes flavoured with saffron.
The handicraft emporium on the main street in the capital is open daily except Sunday and offers a magnificent assortment of handwoven and handcrafted goods. The Motithang Hotel in Thimphu has a souvenir shop. Silversmiths and goldsmiths in the Thimphu Valley are able to make handcrafted articles to order. More than 40 religious or folk dances are performed by the monks recounting tales of Buddhist history and myth. As the dates for these festivals are based on the Bhutanese lunar calendar it is difficult to predict them precisely.