Yak yogurt is a very traditional cold drink made of milk, which is nutritious and helpful for digestion. Pastoral yogurt is made of yak milk. The surface of this yogurt is yellow and hard with cream. When the milk skin is pulled open, the soft and glutinous yogurt is as white as snow as tofu brain, fragrant, sweet and sour, and the entrance is cool and pleasant.
The yogurt that can be called a must is yak yogurt made by Tianjun Tibetans, which is cut into pieces like tender tofu. The surface of the milk skin is golden, with little oil stains, white as fat, fresh and tender, cool and slightly sour, with a spoonful of sugar, sweet in acid, cool and delicious. Yogurt is an ideal healthy drink with better nutrition than milk.
Can help digestion, increase appetite, and has antibacterial, astringent, sedative and hypnotic effects, and has therapeutic effects on patients with chronic mild diarrhea. Medical scientists have also found that it can reduce cholesterol concentration, prevent arteriosclerosis and tumors, and avoid premature aging.
Raft meatballs are a famous dish in Xining, Qinghai, commonly known as "Fried Rafts". Wrap the pig's stomach wall with fat film, chop the liver, lung, kidney and spleen into mud, and mix in salt, ginger powder and pepper. Mix flour and flour with flour, pepper, soy sauce, clear oil, onion foam and garlic paste, mix well and fill in the fat film.
Then, the washed small intestine is tightly tied back and forth into a long round meat ball, sealed at both ends, cooked and steamed for one hour. Some practices are to cook and steam mutton in the intestines. Named after the shape of the local water vehicle sheepskin raft. It is characterized by fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious.
People of all ethnic groups in Qinghai eat raft meatballs, and most Hui and Salar people eat mutton rafts on their own festivals. Both Han and Tu people concentrate on making food at the end of the year as a delicious food for the Spring Festival.