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What to Eat in Lhasa

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What to Eat in Lhasa

Restaurant industry in Lhasa is very mature, which can be mainly divided into Tibetan food, Sichuan food and western food. You can spend 3 RMB for a Breakfast in a small Sichuan-style restaurant;Flying Fish and the Pretty Girl is the most popular Sichuan restaurant in Tibet. At noon, you might like to go to a small Tibetan restaurant to try Tibetan rice cakes and drink butter tea. In the evening, you can also taste exotic food in Beijing road, where you can find Nepal or India dishes as the area borders India and Nepal..

Buttered tea

Buttered tea is the most popular drink in Tibet. If the taste is acceptable to you, drink lots of it for it is a good nutrition and calorie supplements. It is easy to digest and has a good effect on altitude sickness. Hospitable Tibetans often treat the tea to guests, who are not supposed to turn it down otherwise will be considered rude.

Sweet tea

If Barkhor street is the heart of Lhasa, then sweet tea houses are the blood of it. You can't imagine how many small sweet tea houses are open on the busy Barkhor street, let alone how many people are having tea in them. Sweet tea houses are the most leisurely places in Lhasa that are filled with local culture.

Lhasa sweet tea is made of boiled black tea, milk or dried milk and white sugar. Sweet tea costs 70 cents a cup, you can put some change on the table, and a waiter will take it and refill for you.Sweet tea is tasty and rich in nutrition,but too much of it might cause excessive internal heat.

Zanba

Zanba is a kind of staple food made special in Tibet. One can grind the barley or peas into flour after they are fried, and then pour in the buttered tea and stir it and then knead it into a ball by hand. It can be served with salt tea, yogurt or barley wine.

Tibetan noodles

Tibetan noodles are boiled and then dried before they are served with hot beef soup. The greatest enjoyment of eating a bowel of Tibeta

n noodles is to drink the soup. The soup is very tasty with a small amount of salt and scallions,and it warms up the body. Bean jelly

The special thing about Tibetan bean jelly is the chilli flavor of it. Tibetan style chilli is different from oil chilli in that it is made with water. Tibetan bean jelly is served with potato chunks. You can get a bowel of bean jelly in the Barkhor alley for about 1 RMB.

Yogurt

Tibetan yogurt is divided into two types, one is called "Da Xue", which is made from refined milk; The other is made from milk that has not been refined and is called "E Xue".Yak yogurt workshop is a popular yogurt shop in Tibet. The yogurt tastes a bit tart and is served in a special cup.

Barley wine

Barley wine is made from highland barley. It has a sour and sweet taste and an alcohol content as low as beer. All people in Tibet love to drink barley wine and they like to serve it at festivals. One is supposed to drink "one cup in three sips", that is, fill in the cup after the first sip, then take a second sip, have a refill and then finish the drink with the third sip.

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