It is essential to understand the local dietary characteristics of Tibet when preparing for travel in Tibet. Tibetan food is a local characteristic diet. In addition to a large number of staple foods and meals, it also includes more snacks. This article will introduce Tibetan characteristic diet. (What are the staple foods in Tibet?)
Buttered tea is a representative drink of Tibetan food, and Tibetan restaurants are basically available. Butter tea contains high calories, tastes salty and sweet , mallow and delicious , it can be used as a normal drink or as a hungry hunger. It is said that drinking more buttered tea has certain effect on relieving high anti-reflection, but it may not be very used to it for the first time. Now butter tea has begun to be produced mechanically, there are packaging tea on the market that can be bought home as a gift to friends and relatives.
Sweet tea is the same as butter tea, both Tibetan drink and extremely distinctive. Contrast with the salty of buttered tea, sweet tea is sweet and tastes similar to milk tea, but it is lighter and the milk is heavier. If you are not used to butter tea, then you must not miss sweet tea. Almost everyone who has ever tasted sweet tea thinks that sweet tea is good.
Sweet tea is acceptable to many foreign tourists, and there are sweet tea restaurants everywhere in Tibet, which can be tasted casually. There are many sweet tea restaurants in Lhasa that can drink sweet tea , but the most famous is Makye Ame, it is a place where Tshang Yang Gyatsho meets his lover.
Highland barely wine, just as its name implies that wine brewed from highland barley . Highland barley is a unique crop in high altitude areas and there are many foods in Tibet that have highland barley, such as zanba. The highland barley wine has a low alcohol concentration and is refreshing, similar to beer. It is recommended that friends who can drink alcohol can try it, of course, don't try it in the first three days of the first trip to Tibet. You should wait until get used to the plateau weather , and then enjoy drinking with friends.
Tibetan yogurt, people who have tasted it will never stop thinking about it, and they will not find the feeling of eating Tibetan yogurt in other places.
Tibetan yogurt tastes sour, but it feels very thick, sticky and has a strong milky taste. The first time you eat may not be used to it, but you will never forget it after you try it. If you don’t like the taste, you can add white sugar and mix it. White sugar does not dissolved in yogurt, and it feels like rustling when eaten, which is very wonderful.
In Lhasa, there are stalls selling yogurt and there are also special shops selling yogurt. If you saw it while you were hanging out in Lhasa, you can buy it and try it out, try this special taste.
In the streets of Lhasa, you can see a lot of stalls selling jelly and noodles. The jelly here is made of pea flour or sweet potato powder while the mainland is basically made of flour, which is a little different. The jelly here is mixed with chilies , the chili is soaked in water by themselves, not the bottled chilies on the market, it taste fresh.
Some street stalls can be eaten, but the sanitation is not very good. If you mind, you can go to the tea house to eat.
This is a common snack in Tibet. Add sugar, rock sugar and butter to the milk residue, knead it into a dough, and put it aside to dry.
It tastes crispy, sweet and delicious, and has a sufficient milk taste.
In fact, there are many unknown Street snacks in Tibet . These snacks may not be sold in the bustling area,and it is even difficult for ordinary people to find these small stalls. Therefore, we suggest that you pay attention to the observation while walking around the streets of Lhasa, maybe there will be unexpected food in some corner.
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