You have the opportunity to learn about the specialties of Lhasa, Lhasa's specialties are not just to eat, Lhasa's most famous specialty is Tibetan medicine, you can learn about Tibetan medicine, some are still very effective, followed by some other specialties.

Tibetan Hospital

If you bring Tibetan medicine to your family or yourself, if you have time, the Tibetan hospital is the first choice, the quality of the medicine, however, the price is cheaper than the outside, some even lower than you can't believe, but that's definitely the real medicine, don't have to be skeptical. Have the opportunity to listen to the Tibetan doctor's diagnosis (this is a serious Tibetan doctor, not those set up for tourists Tibetan medicine and culture exposition center or something), or experience a Tibetan medicine bath, are good. Classic Tibetan medicines include "seventy flavors pearl pill" for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, "

twenty-five flavors coral pill" for various kinds of neuropathic pains,

liver-healthy and stomach-healthy "sitzhu daxi

If you are buying saffron, etc., recognize the Ganlu Pharmacy

can be, unified decoration, full of street, good to find very. Although the manna of saffron is Iranian flowers, but is a good grade of flowers. Tibet originally did not produce saffron, and now also produce, but the production is rare and expensive, the general public can not buy, Iranian flowers can be. Never than the price of who is cheap, my small friends in Lhasa open inn, often in the group trolling, unscrupulous businessmen take stained flowers, grass saffron and even radish silk when the real saffron sales, the general public simply can not identify, only because of the greedy cheap, the gullible people.

Turquoise, beeswax, dzi beads, coral

Best not to buy, see a good-looking style, buy some cheap to play can be, although more from Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Sichuan. In addition, Barkhor Street on some design-oriented store, there are very beautiful, independent design of Tibetan jewelry for sale, these can be considered. Want to buy collection level, and want a good price, you will be fooled. Only one sentence: Tibetan literature and jewelry all kinds of deep water, not a layman can handle. Even if you run into a local conscientious seller (indeed, there are many), a good old beeswax grams of thousands or even thousands of dollars, a small piece of tens of thousands of dollars, you really need to bring enough silver. New wax is cheap, but it is not a Tibetan specialty, buy it why. Turquoise, dzi is a large number of fake, and even a lot of dzi is considered authentic dzi is Taiwan dzi for many years to bury the mine "results", away from the best, don't think about picking up the leaks.

Tibetan incense

Barkhor Street on the Min Zhu Lin Tibetan incense store, Sakya small temple also has Tibetan incense for sale, these Tibetan incense are genuine quality, and is very traditional Tibetan incense, it is worth buying. Nimu Tibetan incense is the most famous, but due to too many fakes, it is easy to be fooled, it is best not to buy. There are also improved Tibetan incense, such as You Min Ba, Deji North Road, there are specialty stores, suitable for people who do not like the strong flavor of traditional Tibetan incense. Another Tibet has a private factory (sorry I forgot the name, some other day to make up) the production of Tibetan perfume, is to use the ingredients of Tibetan incense to do perfume, quite suitable as a gift for the girls who love Tibet.

Other suggestions

1, to collect things related to Tibet, Lhasa, Rikaze have the kind of Tibetans open, specializing in the sale of old old things store, inside the yak leather box, yak leather bag, tsampa bag, gaou box, small dharma, wooden bowls, day iron, nine palace cards, etc., is the real "Tibet," the collection of worthy of playfulness.

2, Barkhor Street, there are some Tibetans open modern galleries (such as more Dun Qunpei gallery, you may be able to see Gade there, his Ice Buddha series is a great work of art), thangka studio (such as pulling the letting Nyinba), which is really very fine Tibetan art, it is not a specialty product, but it is definitely a real Tibet, Tibetan things, not to buy, open your eyes or not. Last month, a gallery also organized an altar sand painting painting activities, take some photos to go back also enough to brag and memories.

3, Barkhor Street, there are a number of farmers' cooperatives run by the store, which used sheepskin, yak skin Tsampa bag ah, wallet ah, satchel ah, are good-looking and durable and Tibetan characteristics, the price is not expensive.

4, with the local really good yak meat jerky than, Qisheng's very general, this kind of jerky or, maca, ginseng fruit, mother of pearl and other specialties or, Qushui there is a pure earth industrial base, far is far away from the point, but also true and good, on the there to buy it.

5, some of the salt well people opened in the hotel supply of Tibetan red wine is quite good. Some sweet teahouse Ajia home-brewed barley wine is also delicious. Inquire more, ask more is.

6, others like the supermarket barley cakes/biscuits, ghee snacks, may also want to buy a little taste, or quite delicious.

These it, said earlier must be hung up, I am in Tibet for five years, see full six years, still everywhere there are surprises to find, all cities are unable to describe in simple words, not to mention Lhasa. I just hope this post can be a little help to the subject and other bees, it is enough.

Beef Jerky

When I first came here, I wouldn't eat raw, air-dried beef, but I went to a beef house in northern Tibet to buy beef strips. Much like the Chengdu sloppy joes that I ate as a child. And they have a lot of flavors, spicy, five spice, curry, are very tasty, and not expensive. Every time I go home to buy a twenty pounds are not enough to share.

Then I ate a coworker's sister's air-dried beef, and at first I really refused! But looking at Ajia's eager eyes, she insisted that I try it once, and then she closed her eyes and bit down. I can't get that flavor out of my mind. Bring it back home to friends and family, watching TV, wine, snacks, cravings, we simply can not stop, every time I let me bring more. But there are so many of them, where can I carry them. I can only let Ajia help me mail. The air-dried beef is three or four times more expensive than the beef jerky mentioned above, but you can't take a bite out of a piece, you can only eat it little by little, so you can still eat it for a long time.

The two I mentioned are not easy to find, but the streets are full of "Qisheng Beef" and "Ajia Beef" is still very famous.

Tibetan medicine

The most bought and very cheap is. Green flower. This is said to be the lower three high, depending on the person, my uncle felt very useful, mainly cheap ah, even if it is the peak season, should be a packet will not be more than 50.

In the old family have the habit of drinking chrysanthemum tea, especially girls, add two pieces of rock sugar, clear heat and thirst. In Lhasa we often buy snow chrysanthemum bubble water to drink, to be honest, is a variety of chrysanthemum, with what hang white chrysanthemum, fetal chrysanthemum for me there is no difference, but friends and family is to feel the foreign style, a force to let me buy home. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best products in the world.

Cordyceps is not a good idea, but it's a good idea to get your hands on some of the best products in the world. Saffron is the efficacy of this effect we all know, but taking into account the price is more expensive many people are still deterred. As a long stay in Lhasa girls, we are still most of them to prepare a little saffron. You don't have to buy too much, just 5g can really be eaten for a long, long time, and you can also share a little bit of it with your mom to drink. Saffron has not given birth to a child in the end good or bad, this problem I also heard a lot of different say, at first I also often soak and drink, once soaked three to five, (do not put too much, remembered a friend said that his mother steamed eggs put a dense saffron, steamed eggs raw into a red expression) and then listened to this statement is not quite dare to drink often, is not to throw two or three soak your feet. (My father always scolded me luxury) this role on my personal, in fact, sometimes still quite obvious, to aunt before drinking a week, indeed not so painful. Co-worker's mother age to menopause, aunt time to come when not, co-workers to buy a little saffron for her mother to adjust, and now has been continuously for a year. After all, women break menstruation into extreme aging.

Friends who like to make porridge and soup can buy some "tonic medicine". The most expensive palm ginseng ginseng fruit cordyceps flowers matsutake mushrooms are considered to be palm ginseng, will be due to the off-peak season price gap is particularly large, but also divided into the wild and artificial, I bought less than 300 have also bought higher than 700, so buy time to compare compare. Ginseng fruit does not look good, a little like rat droppings, but porridge put a little, sweet really delicious, the price is also relatively cheap, dozens of 200 can be a little bargaining. Cordyceps flowers are not related to cordyceps at all, so they are also a lot cheaper, a bag of 100 or so, but also a big bag. Once bought a few abalone in the home soup put a handful of Cordyceps flowers, really fragrant ah, he can not only simmering soup, but also fried meat Oh, crunchy texture a little bit like crispy radish strips, especially delicious. In August and September to Tibet, is a year of rain, the most time la, is also the time of matsutake mushrooms high yield, so you can buy fresh matsutake mushrooms on the side of the road. Some people think that matsutake mushrooms have a strange flavor and may not be used to eating them, especially the fresh ones, which have a very strong flavor, but fresh stewed chicken with nothing but salt is already very fresh. Did not meet the fresh also do not worry, can always buy dried Oh, the price of a bag of about 200, the price difference is also relatively large.

Chuanbei is very famous can you know Tibetan shellfish. My dad has vocal polyps, previously at home is to buy the Sichuan shellfish, came to Lhasa to hear the name of the Tibetan shellfish, will give my dad to buy Tibetan shellfish. I heard that it is very useful for children's cough and cold.

The last two years, black wolfberry fried very strong, but also my own often bubble water, to relatives and friends often bring supplements. Tibet's black wolfberry is really good, the color purple blue green will be different depending on the water quality presents different colors. Want a slightly upscale gift can choose to buy black wolfberries, the box is very beautiful.

milk shells, milk fruit

in fact, milk shells milk fruit is almost the same thing, are dairy products, just milk fruit may be packaged more delicate. If you want to bring gifts to children, you can consider buying milk shells and milk nuts. Most of the milk shells are weighed by the pound, the price ranges from 30 to more than a hundred. The Linzhi milk shells I bought before were two to three times more expensive than the ones I usually buy, and they were really very tasty. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find the right one, but I'm sure you're going to be able to find the right one, and I'm sure you're going to be able to find the right one, and I'm sure you're going to be able to find the right one, and I'm sure you're going to be able to find the right one, and I'm going to be able to find the right one. I would like to take the time to buy a dozen of them. I do not know if it is true, in Lhasa to buy Nepalese handmade shawls or not cheap, how also have to be on a hundred. One year home for New Year's Eve, just winter, want to buy some scarves or shawls home to send friends and relatives, and then found that there are still a lot of Tibetan native shawls and scarves, because meet the boss to go home for New Year's Eve, the big deal, 20 a scarf to buy 20! There are many wool shawls, cheap and warm, the requirements are not very good within 100 can buy a two or three. I bought the one in the road through the Yu Tuo Road to the Da Zhao Temple, called "Gesang Hua", the store is quite large and do not ask for prices. There is also a shop on the second floor of Xueyan Street on Yutuo Road, mainly selling Nepalese handmade shawls.

Probably I will buy these ah, think of other and then share with you. The first is not practical, and the second is that most of the ones on the market are fake. As for the thangkas, I think these are too sacred, and I'm still afraid that they're not in the right place.

These are the most important things you can do for your family.