China is a country where tea culture is very popular. Chinese people love tea, people drink a very large number of types of tea, there are Pu'er tea, Biluochun, black tea, red robe and so on, black tea, green tea, black tea, white tea and so on. However, people in the plateau area rarely drink these teas, in order to fight the cold, people in Tibet consume ghee tea, ghee tea is definitely a specialty food in Tibet, high-calorie ghee tea to make them live a better life.

Ghee tea is a daily essential drink for Tibetan people. It is a necessity for life on the Tibetan plateau. When it is cold, it can drive away the cold; when you eat meat, it can remove the grease; when you are hungry, it can fill up the hunger; when you are sleepy, it can relieve the fatigue; when you are drowsy, it can also clear your mind. Tea contains vitamins that can reduce the damage caused by the lack of vegetables in the plateau. Tea not only exists as a beverage, it is also treated as a holy relic, with the scriptures, jewelry together, loaded into each newly shaped into the body of the statue of Buddha, and by the living Buddha blessing enlightenment, this statue of Buddha has the aura. The Tibetan family's accumulation of blessings in the box, the collection of this family through the generations to be able to get the sacred items, one of the most important is the tea.

The production of ghee tea, the first tea or brick tea with water long boiled into a thick juice, and then pour the tea into the ghee tea bucket, and then into the ghee and salt, force the tea bucket up and down the back and forth dozens of pumping, stirring the oil and tea mingled, and then poured into the pot to heat up the ghee tea has become a fragrant and delicious. Ghee has a variety of ways to eat, mainly playing ghee tea to drink, can also be put into the patties and eat. The ghee is also used to fry the fruit on New Year's Day.

With ordinary tea is different. Ghee tea is brick tea boiled in water, add ghee (yak butter), put into a long, thin wooden barrel, with a stirring rod to stir hard, so that it becomes a milky liquid. Another way is to ghee and tea into a leather bag, tighten the mouth of the bag, with a wooden stick to beat. So the configuration of ghee tea called "hit" ghee tea. It is a very laborious work for the hostess to entertain the guests, and now it can also be configured with an electric mixer. Open the seal of the tea bag, pour the fine powder into the cup, boiling water into, stir well. Ghee tea produces a high level of heat because of the ghee, and is a very suitable drink for alpine regions as it protects against the cold when drunk. The tea juice in ghee tea is very strong and has the effect of refreshing the mind and quenching thirst.

In fact, a lot of tourists who have traveled to Tibet have responded to the ghee tea is actually very good food. Ghee tea is a drink unique to Tibet, which can protect you from the cold, quench your thirst and refresh your mind. However, most ghee tea is made with goat's milk, and some people may not like the taste of goat's milk. Ghee tea can replenish energy, for plateau reaction also has a relieving effect, so it is also a good choice for travelers.