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Food Recommendation

Since food has to adapt people inhabited environment, Tibetan in Jiuzhaigou Valley eat quite different food from traditional Sichuan food. Here is a catalog.

Zanba

A staple food of Tibetans, it looks like mainland China fried wheat flour, prepared with main ingredients of barley flour as well as pea and oat powder. Tibetans bring the Zanba cake wherever they go, to farm, to graze and to travel. It is a convenient fast food, especially welcom in sparsely populated and fuel-scarce areas.

Butter tea

Its main ingredients are butter and milk as well as walnut kernel, peanut and sesame, egg and salt, being stirred in a barrel, then mixed with boiled tea and brawn- red coloring matter. After being stirred for a few seconds, a fragrant barrel of buttered tea is ready. It is poured into a big kettle and kept warm on a stove for drinking.

Yacha tea Selected from large tealeaves, it is produced in Yan Prefecture, also called the "Horse Tea" in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Tibetans eat lots of meals but few vegetables and fruits. The Yan Tea is a right drink to supplement for their vitamin deficiency, it is also an important component to prepare the buttered tea, for a strong and authentic flavor.

Qingke barley liquor It is an indispensable drink of Tibetans, also serves as a treat at big occasions and for guests. To make this liquor, wash and steam it, and then ferment it for a couple of days. When it appears yellowish and tastes sweet, it is ready to drink. It is also called the Tibetan beer.

Flour sliced with picked cabbage It is a traditional Tibetan food. To make it, first cook the pickled-cabbage soup, then mix it with flour slices and bacon chops or fresh yak meat slices, potato slices, as well as shallot and salt.

Blood sausage It is a choice food of the Tibetan cuisine to honor distinguished guests. This nutritious and tasty food is made of blood, spices, yak meat or pork, all wrapped in the intestine like a western sausage.

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