I want to travel to Tibet. What are the special foods in Tibet? It is said that the food culture is quite unique. Could you please give me more detailed information? Thank you

The Tibetan people’s diet is slightly different in pastoral areas and agricultural areas, but they have the same hobbies. They all like to eat green noodles, butter tea, beef, mutton, and dairy products. In the past, there was very little food in the pastoral areas, and meat and dairy products were quite scarce. Yuba was also ground coarsely. They did not eat vegetables, and regarded vegetables as weeds. They lived in water and had no fixed diet. They ate when they were hungry and drank when they were exhausted. Eat well and drink well in the peak season, and eat in the off-season. Nowadays, life in pastoral areas has greatly improved. To judge how wealthy a family is, it mainly depends on the amount of grain reserves, rather than the amount of meat and milk reserves, because these things are abundant and not rare.

Herdsmen like to boil meat in white water, put large pieces of meat with bones in the pot, and cook the meat until it is half cooked, then take it out and eat it. When eating, grab the meat with one hand, hold the knife with the other, and slice the meat into pieces, leaving clean bones. Use the breast meat and the meat between the ribs to serve guests. The argali's tail should be honored to honor the distinguished guests, and a tower of white wool symbolizing good luck should be left on the tail. The heads and shanks of cattle and sheep are reserved for home consumption. The meat from the shoulder bone is eaten by old people with bad teeth. If a young man eats this meat at his girlfriend's house, it means that the woman has acquiesced in their marriage.

The representative food of the Tibetan people:

Green noodles, called dregs in Tibetan. It is a fine flour made by frying and grinding green trees. It is white in color and fragrant in flavor. When traveling far away, you always need to bring ghee and dregs with you. You can put the noodles directly into your mouth and eat them, which is called dry xiba. When eating sesame cake at home, boil the milk tea and pour it into a bowl. Add the butter and milk residue. After it melts, add the cake powder and quickly stir it evenly with the four fingers of your right hand to form a small ball. Taking a group tour, eating together, and drinking milk tea. These are the Tibetan food culture that you must understand when traveling to Tibet.

Gutu is a Tibetan New Year meal, eaten on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in the Tibetan calendar. Its original meaning is "Lajiu porridge". Porridge is made from 9 kinds of things: wheat grains, apricots, wool, peppers, porcelain pieces, inwardly twisted thread, outwardly twisted thread, peas, and charcoal. Every substance has a meaning. Those who eat wool indicate a soft-hearted person in the coming year; those who eat chili peppers will be unforgiving; those who eat charcoal will have a dark heart, etc. Nowadays, eating this kind of New Year's dinner no longer has its original meaning. It is just a joke and family fun. In some places, beef and mutton, dough and some seasonings are used to make food with soup.

The waves are sudden, that is, porridge. The method is to smash the beef (sheep) bones in a stone mortar, add salt, ginger powder, wild herb powder, and white radish shreds to make soup. After the steel is opened, add the rice cake powder, stir well and cook. It's fragrant and refreshing, perfect for winter dinner. After a few bowls, your whole body will feel warm.

In ancient times, Pa Tsa Mo was originally food for monks. The method is to beat two eggs in a bowl, add water, salt, and wild vanilla powder, use it to knead the dough, make small round pieces, cook it with water, take it out into a bowl, pour in the melted ghee, and sprinkle in the milk residue, Sugar, five-spice powder, and chili oil are ready to eat.

Bala cake was originally a kind of large pot helmet introduced to Tibet from the Batang area of ??Sichuan. It is a large round cake (30 cm in diameter and about 10 cm thick) baked with eggs, soda, sugar and flour. It is cut into triangular pieces when eating. Sweet, crunchy, and shelf-stable.

Baqiang is a snack snack when you go out to graze. Made with Xiba and distiller's yeast, it tastes sweet and soft.

Zheqiang. It is dry glutinous rice made from rice. It is soft and non-sticky and tastes sweet and sour.

Roast pork. Linzhi area is rich in a kind of small and lean Tibetan pig. After slaughtering, the skin is cut into long strips two fingers wide, sprinkled with salt and seasonings, hung on the roof, and a fire is lit on the ground. The meat becomes Italian meat, and the skin is eaten. Place it face down on a pile of firewood until cooked. When eating, eat it with glutinous rice and butter tea.

Air-dried beef is the raw beef that Tibetans love. It is made every autumn. Cut the fresh beef into strips, tie it into skewers, sprinkle with salt, pepper powder, chili powder, and ginger powder, hang it in a cool and ventilated place, and let it air-dry. It tastes crispy, sweet, and sour. No residue clogging teeth when chewing. In the alpine and cold areas of Tibet, food is not prone to mold and deterioration, and the water is removed and kept fresh. Therefore, the trend of eating air-dried beef is still very popular today.

Saganchamen is a kind of dairy product, referred to as Sagan. It is popular in Chayu area of ??southeastern Tibet. The local area is rich in "Guaishu". Peel the branches, put 15 of them into a milking bucket, pour fresh milk into it, and a thick layer of milk cake will gradually form around the branches, which is called "Sayu". "It's very fresh and tender, so don't keep it for a long time. Take it out and cook it with meat and add seasonings to make Sa Gan meat; add ghee to the pot, and after heating, add Sa Gan, a little sugar or salt to make Sa Gan soup, which has the effect of nourishing blood and Qi; add Sa Gan to Cook, take out, let cool, add chili, coriander, wild onions and yogurt to serve as cold sagan. Sagan can also be mixed with meat to make steamed buns.

Bulu is a New Year food. Use milk, flour, eggs, and ghee to make a paste. After fermentation, pour it into a hot oil pan like tofu and twist it into circles. After frying, it will be fragrant and crispy.

Butter tea. Add a little butter and salt to the boiled tea, put it in a butter tea bucket and stir it several times. After the water and oil are mixed, pour it into a pot and heat it (do not boil it) and you can drink it. If you drink enough butter tea in the morning, you won't feel hungry even if you skip lunch. Butter tea is an indispensable drink for Tibetans.

In addition to butter vegetables, Tibetan drinks also include other types of tea, such as milk tea boiled with milk; sweet tea boiled with milk, black tea, and white sugar; and black horse tea without any additives. .

Qingke wine is also a necessary drink, that is, Qingke beer, with low alcohol content, yellow-green color, sweet and sour taste, and not easy to be intoxicating. Once drunk, it is not easy to sober up. There is also a kind of liquor brewed from green trees, which Tibetans call "Are". It has a high alcohol content of 65 degrees and a strong aroma. Almost every family can make it.

Tibetan tableware is wooden bowls and knives, which are usually carried with you. When eating, pay attention to not filling your mouth with enough food, not making any noise when biting, not making any noise when drinking, and not overstepping the plate when picking up food.

Tibetans usually treat guests with butter tea, cakes and meat. When serving butter tea to a guest, the guest must drink 3 bowls. The first bowl cannot be drunk, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the host. After 3 bowls, if you don’t want to drink anymore, you can pour the tea residue on the ground, otherwise the host will keep urging the guest to drink it. . In some places, if a guest has no intention of saying goodbye and doesn't want to drink anymore, the host will put it there after filling it up, and drink it all in one gulp before saying goodbye. For more information, you can go to the Tibet Travel Guide website, which is quite comprehensive. It must be noted that when the host persuades the guest to drink, the guest should dip his or her ring finger in the wine 3 times, flick it into the air 3 times, and then drink it after blessing. The first bowl must be finished, and the next 3 bowls must be finished. If not, The host will sing a song to persuade people to drink, and as soon as the song ends, the guests will have to drink it all in one gulp. On festival days, they will all get drunk before resting. In some places, guests are required to bring their own dry food and tableware, and the host only provides drinks.

Tibetans like to celebrate festivals, and there are festivals almost every month. For example, on the first day of the first lunar month in the Tibetan calendar, eating Droso Chema (an offering made of wheat ears, fried wheat flowers, rice cakes, butter, etc.) represents good luck. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival; the eighteenth day of the third month is the "Jieduo" festival; the fifteenth day of the fourth month is the "Sagadawa" festival (legend has it that it is the day when Sakyamuni was born and had an affair); the fifth day is the "Jieduo" festival. "Zhanbu Linjisang" Festival (also known as the Smoke Festival); July is the Wangguo Festival (meaning traveling in the fields), begging for a good harvest; December 29 is the Gutu Festival, etc. Be sure to improve your diet during the holidays.

Tibetans do not eat the meat of horses, donkeys and other odd-toed livestock, and do not eat five-clawed chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, rabbits, and otters. Tibetans in most areas do not eat fish and poultry meat. They eat the meat of all cloven-hoofed pigs, cattle, sheep, deer and other animals. Tibetans have a fine tradition of protecting birds, animals, fish and insects. Except for a few wild animals such as wolves that harm animal husbandry, wild animal resources are rarely damaged.

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