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Soon after our car crash, we board a passing bus going to Lhassa. Along the way, we stop for lunch in a makeshift place.We had some "chinese fastfood" while our guide was having a traditional meal.Both were cheap and very ok.10 Y + 5 Y softdrink Traditional Yak meat
Attached to Yak hotel, this place has good food and a nice bar upstair.It caters group as well and sometime it can be crowded.The staff is nice and understand well what you want.The atmosphere can be plain according to the patrons.Dutch management A lot of nice stuff especially soup and pasta.Special word for their french fries and mayonnaise maison..The only place I could find diet coke and tonic.2 USD a can !!!!
It's a traditional tibetan tea house, someone might think it looks dirty and might be afraid to enter. Then you really miss something! Tibetan people eat this every morning together with yak milk tea. I just think i shoud try. It tasted ..... interesting...anyway if you like yak milk tea, you 'd like this as well.
Noone goes to Tibet in order to enjoy the Tibetan cuisine! Seriously, the Tibetan way of "cooking" must range as the least inspiring in all the world, especially when compared to the exotic spices of Szechuan.Apart from barley, nothing really grows on the Tibetan Plateau, especially in the west, and therefore the main staple is .... barley. And, as firewood is close to non-existent at an altitude of 4000 meters, this barley is never used for making bread. Instead, it is roasted and grinded, making some sort of dark flour.This flour is called "tsampa" and most of the time, it's eaten "on the rocks"! That's right, just the dry, roasted flour, scooped up with the fingers and, at the best, some butter tea is added to transfer the dry desert-feeling into a thick, semi-dusty paste.If anything, butter tea is the drink of the Asian highlands. Depending on the region, from Karakoram and...
Well, if I have to say anything positive about the Chinese "influences" in Tibet than It might be the food.Some restaurants offer amazing Chinese food and street vendors offer cheap fried snacks at about $0,20 a piece.I can recommend it. Don't be afraid for your stomach, it's generally safe.Try the potato slices with salt and chilly!
The Yeti Cafe is just down the block from the Lhasa Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn). An impromptu dinner there turned out to be one of the best meals we had in Tibet, despite the seriously limited English of our waitress and the hilariously translated menu. Like many restaurants that we would visit, the restaurant served a hodge-podge of dishes: some Chinese, some Tibetan, and even some Nepali. They also served unique versions of Western dishes. We didn't often try Tibetan versions of Western staples with one frequent exception: french fries. Because potatoes are a staple food in Tibet and because their preparation is so simple, this was often a favorite (and reliable) choice. We had no notion of portion sizes--nor of what we would like--and so the four of us ordered far too many dishes. Among our entrees were momos and a hot spicy yak beef, chicken, eggplant and even something that...
The best advice I can offer on Tibetan cuisine is not to go to Tibet for the food. Do not even go with high hopes. Be glad, if for no other reason whatsoever, that the Chinese are in Tibet. I spent three weeks in Nepal four years ago and loved the food. It is not, contrary to popular opinion, all that similar to Indian. It looks different, tastes different, and is different. My Nepali experience notwithstanding, I was not optimistic before leaving for Tibet. In fact, I was wary, having read a great deal of what to expect (and also being lucky enough to have tried a Tibetan cafe not far from my home). For those inclined to know the bottom line in advance, here it is: with rare exceptions, Tibetan food can be remarkably okay; at its worst, you don't want to imagine it.Don't forget: Tibetans don't eat out, they are simply too poor. The restaurants that exist cater to foreigners and the...
Yak has a fairly straightforward taste: yak butter tastes like butter with a tang or slight sharpness that some Westerners associate with rancid oil. Yak cheese looks like cheddar and tastes similar except, again, for the unmistakable tang. Yak butter tea, known as bo cha, is probably Tibet's single most famous comestible. It is not made with rancid butter, popular myth notwithstanding. It is made with fresh yak butter. But because the butter tastes a bit different than butter made from cow's milk and because most Westerners are not accustomed to butter in their tea to begin with, the drink is an acquired taste. The best advice I read about getting accustomed to the taste is to consider it soup, not tea. It didn't help me, but it allowed three or four sips instead of just one.
Local restaurant on the main tourist street often have Yak Dance during the dinner time. Tibetan singer and dancer...pretty interesting.Downtown Lhasa is small, you can just wander and jump in one of them. Yak, Yak, Yak...milk tea...
Yak restaurant has a very nice balcony to sit for beer and for dinner. You can meet some interesting travellers there as well. Decoration on the wall is specially...Foods are actually ok...not too especially. But you will be definately happy finding such bar & restaurant in Lhasa. Go there for Brunch in the sun.. For dinner, you have lots of other choices, ie. Nepal, Thai and Chinese Sichuan Spicy cusine...
Yak Hotel Lhasa
8 Reviews and 61 Opinions This is a supposedly 3 star hotel but why remains a mystery. We stayed there for 2 days on our...
Gyantse Hotel Gyangze
2 Reviews and 29 Opinions The hotel's official rating is ***, which did mean it was pretty basic - and so it was (it would not...
Kyichu Hotel (Jiqu Fandian) Lhasa
1 Review and 65 Opinions I stayed at this hotel in February 2007. The beds were hard, but that's normal in China. They had...
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