Buttered tea Buttered tea is a must-have drink for collectors to entertain guests, and it is often eaten as a staple food with Bazin. Brick tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and accelerate digestion. Drinking it alone is extremely hungry, so you must add butter or milk. Buttered tea is the best drink in Shangri-La, because it is extremely high in calories, which can eliminate the cold and supplement the calories needed by the human body.
Historical legend
Legend has it that there are two tribes in Tibetan areas, the ruling tribe and the angry tribe. The two tribes were in the same boat, but Meimei, the daughter of the ruling tribe's toast, fell in love with Wintumba, the son of the angry tribe's toast. However, due to the hatred between the two tribes, the toast who ruled the tribe sent someone to kill Wintumba. During the cremation ceremony for Wentun Dam, Meimeicuo jumped into the fire to double suicide. After the death of both sides, Meimeicuo became the tea on the tea tree in the mainland, and Wentongba became the salt in Qiangtang Salt Lake. Whenever Tibetans beat butter tea, tea and salt will meet again.
Highland barley wine is brewed from highland barley, which is one of the main drinks for guests in Tibetan areas. When you walk into a Tibetan family, they always greet you with highland barley wine. The brewing of highland barley wine has a history of thousands of years. Taking highland barley as the raw material, taking the plateau climate with high temperature and high oxygen content as the brewing environment, it is brewed with snow-capped mountain holy water and pollution-free natural mineral water. The wine is pure in color and long in taste, and it is also a typical representative of western culture.
Yogurt Yogurt is a unique dairy product of Tibetan families in Shangri-La, which is called "Shuo" in Tibetan. Made of ghee refined milk, it is nutritious, helpful for digestion, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is most suitable for the elderly and children. It is said that if you insist on drinking yogurt all your life, you will have the effect of prolonging life.
Ciba is one of the traditional staple foods of Tibetan herdsmen. "Ciba" is a Tibetan transliteration of fried noodles, which is actually highland barley fried noodles. It is the staple food that Tibetan people must eat every day. When you are a guest in the home of a Tibetan compatriot, the host will definitely bring you fragrant milk tea and a table full of golden ghee, milk yellow "qula" (casein) and sugar highland barley fried noodles.
How to eat Baba
When eating Ciba, put some ghee in the bowl, rush into the tea, add some Ciba noodles, and keep stirring with your hands. When stirring, first lightly pound the fried noodles at the bottom of the bowl with your middle finger to prevent the tea from overflowing the bowl; Then turn the bowl and press the fried noodles into the tea with your fingers close to the edge of the bowl; When the fried noodles, tea leaves and ghee are evenly mixed, they can be kneaded into a ball by hand and then eaten. When eating, keep rubbing it in the bowl with your hands, knead it into a ball and send it to your mouth with your hands. Tibetans generally eat with their hands instead of chopsticks or spoons.
Pipa meat Pipa meat is a kind of meat made by traditional Tibetan pickling method.
In "Southern Yunnan Newspeak", it is said that Pipa meat is "as thin as a pipa." Pipa meat can be preserved for a long time. If it is not cut, it will remain unchanged for several years. Its meat is delicious, its color is transparent and mouth-watering, and it can be cooked and stewed. For Tibetans, entertaining guests is a delicacy.