Nevertheless, it was indeed quite an adventure for us to attempt to order local dishes on our own.
In this case, I can rougly seaparte Tibetan cusisine into 3 main parts.
1) Sichuan influence - There are quite a few Chinese restaurants that serve local Sichuan food. Sichaunese food is marked with extreme spcice and oil. In fact, almost every dish is served with losta chilli oil, the sort that you will run to the loo the very following day!
2) Tibetan fare - Yak meat is the main meat origins that you ended up trying. In additional to that, Tibetan food includes their local dumplings and their famous Milk Tea. Their spice includes peppcorn as well.
3) Fusion - Tibetan western food , such as Yak cheese pizza, not too bad!
Here are some of our favorites!
Tibetan food
Lhasa Kitchen in Bagkor Street
- Tsampa Soup, a very light tasty soup with pieces of Yak
- Yak Stew with Potato, yummy! Good to go with rice!
- Meat puffs , our very favorite dish! The puffs were steamy hot and flakey.. And the minced meat simply made the entire dish perfect!
- Panfried Meat Momo - MOMO is the main dumplings, a sort of staple
- Veges momo in soup, more veges! Yeah, reminds me of Shui Gao!
Sichuanese food
Here are some of the super duper spicy food we tried.
- 1st day in Chengdu - Spciy spicy chilli soupy noodles... It definitely woke us up!
I enjoyed this dish more, its bean flour dough with chilli!
Beef noodles, very different from the HK/Taiwan type. It is called Dao Jie Mian - Sliced by a knife as the cook prepare this dish
- Shao Bing, a light pastry with minced meat as filling! Not too bad, I must say as it is not SPICY. And finally, went to the local fastfood restaurant to get a drink and egg-y soup with seaweed!
- In Lhasa - A Sichuanese eatery as we were sick of Tibetan food in the middle of our trip. We ordered tasty dishes such as Ma Po To Fu, Stir Fried Veges and Dumplings in Spicy sauce.- These 3 dishes were okay, but a little too salty. Somehow they love to put pepper corn with veges..and if you bite one accidetally, your tongue turn numb!
We ordered a big pot of Spicy Meat stew, indeed it was really spicy and hot enough! What an adventure!I pretty much stayed away from spicy oily food as my little tummy couldn't take the heat.
- A fusion of Tibetan-Chinese food at Lhasa. Our very first dinner, very simple dishes, the Chicken soup was fantastic. And the pancake simply reminded me of Roti-Prata! Yum!
- Price increase! Inflation! One of the Chinese eatery we tried at Shigaste in the early morning while waiting for Tashi. The food consists of mainly soupy noodles in a hot pot. Quite expensive for the locals...
Tibetan Western Food
- Organic salad and yak milk tea. It was a true test of being adventurous.You have to sip the tea as if you are drinking cream of mushroom, as the drink is more of a savory feel!
- The true test! Clap clap : Kelly!
- Fried MOMO - really tasty, as well as the Yak ball soupy fan si!!
- Yakky cheese pizza, not too bad I must say!Conclusion:
Ha be prepared for a little adventure. By the way, the pictures that I posted here are just a tiny fraction of what we actually tried. I'm not a big foodie photographer and well, I'm lazy!
Some of the food that we ate while we were on the road were simpler. That's more like local Tibetan food. As our stomachs couldn't digest some of the local fares, we chose the safest dishes such as
1) Fried Rice 2) Tomatoes and eggs 3) Fried veges 4) A meat dish.
We ate this combination a couple of times while we stopped by some local eateries while we moved from one place to another.
What did we crave on the last day? A simple fare of HK Char Siew fan!
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