Ghee Tea
Ghee tea is a necessary drink for collectors to entertain their guests, and is mostly consumed as a staple food with bazan. The bricks contain a lot of tannic acid, which stimulates bowel movements and speeds up digestion. It makes you hungry if you drink it alone, so be sure to add ghee or milk. Ghee tea is the best drink in Shangri-La because it has a very high calorie content, which removes the cold and replenishes the body's caloric needs.
Historical Legend
Legend has it that there are two tribes in Tibet, the ruling tribe and the angry tribe. The two tribes shared the same illness, but Meimei, the daughter of the chief of the Ruling Tribe, fell in love with Ventumba, the son of the chief of the Angry Tribe. However, due to a long-standing feud between the two tribes, the chief of the Ruling Tribe sent someone to kill Ventumpa. During the cremation ceremony for Ventumba, Meimei Tso committed suicide by jumping into the fire. After the deaths of both parties, Meimei Tso became tea on the mainland tea tree and Wentumba became salt in the Qiangtang Salt Lake. Whenever Tibetans tap ghee tea, tea and salt meet again.
Barley Wine
Barley wine made from barley is one of the main beverages of hospitality in Tibet. When you walk into a Tibetan's home, they always greet you with barley wine. Barley wine after a thousand years of brewing, barley as raw material, high temperature and high oxygen content of the plateau climate for brewing environment, using the snowy mountains and holy water, non-polluting natural mineral water. Color pure taste long, but also a typical representative of Western culture.
Yogurt
Yogurt is a dairy product unique to Tibetan families in Shangri-La, the Tibetan language called "said". Made from milk refined with butter, it is rich in nutritional value, aids in digestion, generates fluids and quenches thirst, and is most suitable for the elderly and children. It is said that a lifetime of eating yogurt can prolong life.
Tsampa
Baba is one of the traditional staple foods of Tibetan herders. "Baba" is the Tibetan transliteration of fried noodles, which is actually barley fried noodles. It is a staple food that Tibetan people must eat every day. To the Tibetan compatriots home guests, the host will definitely give you a fragrant milk tea and barley fried noodles. Golden ghee, creamy "cheese" and sugar fill the table.
How do you eat bhajans?
To eat bhajan, put some ghee in a bowl, pour it into the tea, add some bhajan noodles and keep stirring with your hands. While stirring, use your middle finger to lightly pound the fried noodles at the bottom of the bowl so that the tea does not spill out of the bowl; then rotate the bowl and press the fried noodles into the tea with your fingers close to the edge of the bowl; wait for the fried noodles, tea, and ghee to mix well, and then knead them with your hands to form the balls, and then they are ready to eat. When eating, they keep rubbing their hands in the bowl, kneading it into a ball called 'ba' and sending it to their mouths with their hands. Tibetans usually don't use chopsticks or spoons to eat, they just grab them with their hands.
Pipa Meat
Pisa meat is a type of meat made using traditional Tibetan curing methods.755-79000, says pipa meat is "thin and greasy, like a pipa." Pipa meat can be preserved for a long time. If it is not cut, it remains unchanged for several years. Its meat has a delicious taste and transparent color, which is mouth-watering. It can be boiled or stewed, and is a delicacy for Tibetans to entertain guests.