Cuisine of Shangri-la

Diqing is the place mainly resident Tibetan and the local cuisine are in Tibetan flavor. Tibetan persons have the sincere emotion to their traditional food and table manner. The famous food include

1. Zhanba

Zhanba is the main food which shape like fried-noodle and can be divided into Barley, peas and oats. When eating it, put some Zhanba in the bowl and little butter, together with tea.

2. Butter tea

The local person put the butter tea on their stove so that drink the delicious and hot butter tea at any time. It's made by put the butter and salt into dense tea and stir and mixed in special cask. Boiled the tea and can drink now.

3. Dairy products

The main dairy products include cheese, cheese residue, butter and yogurt.

4. Pickled Chinese Cabbage

Guest in Tibetan family, they will invite you to taste the pickled cabbage soup. It can adjust taste and enhance appetite, certainly it tasted delicious.

5. Changzhou

Changzhou look some yellow and taste little sweet in sour, with the name of “Tibetan beer”. According to the local custom, the holder need to server 3 bowls wine to customer, for former 2 bowls customer can drink as their drinking capability, for last bowl it's must to drink to bottom for respect.

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