Tibetan
Food
The
basic Tibetan meal is tsampa, a kind of dough made with
roasted barley flour and yak butter with water, teror beer.
It has a certain novelty value the first time you try it,
but only a Tibetan can eat it every day and still look forward
to the next meal.Outside Lhasa, Tibetan food is limited
mainly to momos and thugpa.
Chinese
Food
Chinese
food in Tibet is almost exclusively Sichuanese. This is
the hottest of the Chinese regional cuisines, but in Tibet
it is rarely made with as many spices as it is in Sichuan.
Drinks
The
local beverage that every traveller ends up trying at least
once is yak butter tea which is unlikely to be a highlight
of your trip to Tibet. Made from yak butter mixed with salt,
milk, soda, tea leaves and hot water all churned up in a
wooden tube, the soupy mixture has more the consistency
of bouillon than tea.When mixed with tsampa it becomes the
staple meal of most Tibetana and you may well be offered
it at monasteries, peoples's houses.
The
Tibetan brew is known as chang, a fermented barley beer.
It has a rich, fruity, and ranges from disgusting to pretty
good. It is mormally served out of a jerry can. |
