Recommended Food & Restaurants in Lugu Lake

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In the Lugu Lake tourist areas, the featured food is mainly provided in the restaurants in Luoshui Village and Lige Village, both near to Lugu Lake. The ordinary hotels can offer the daily meals. Yunnan cuisines and Sichuan cuisines are available at present. Mosuo people are warm hospitality to guests, so tourists can also visit a Mosuo family to have a taste of delicious homemade food.

For breakfast, tourists can choose buttered tea, porridge, steamed bun, pickles and rice noodles. For lunch and dinner, it is very rich and tourists can order meals basing on their favor, such as preserved pork, roast fish, pickled sour fish, blood sausage, Mosuo-style barbecue, sulima wine and guangdang wine, marinated pear, etc.

Recommended Food in Lugu Lake Tourist Areas

1. Preserved Pork (猪膘肉)

Preserved Pork is the specialty of the Mosuo and the Puhuo living Nilang and Yongning. In the depth of winter, the locals dehair the whole pig, dig out its viscera and bones, and cut down its head and legs. And then they stir the left part with spiced salt and seam it, and put it on the outdoor for natural dry. It will not bad for reserving several years. When friends come to their home, they cut down a chunk. It tastes so delicious.

Preserved Pork

2. Roast Fish & Pickled Sour Fish (烤鱼、酸鱼)

Roast Fish: The fish is from the Lugu Lake. The Mosuo people slit the fish's belly, dig out its viscera and wash up, put salt and spice, and stir, and then put it on fire or in the pat for roasting. It tastes crispy and fragrant.

Pickled Sour Fish: After washing up the fish, add salt, Chinese onion and Sichuan pepper and stir, and then put it into jar and seal it. For several months, it can be eaten. It possesses of delicate flavour and is a appetizer dish.

Roast Fish

3. Blood Sausage

Different from the Blood Sausage of Jiarong Tibetan, the materials of Blood Sausage of Mosuo include underdone rice, pig blood, salt, pig oil, ginger, garlic and Sichuan pepper. Put all together and stir, and then fill the mix into big or small chitterlings to make Blood Sausage. After natural dry hang on the outdoor, cut it into the dice and fry it by oil. Blood Sausage is a good dish for drink wine.

Blood Sausage

4. Mosuo-style Barbecue

When coming across the big festival of the Mosuo, the locals will host Mosuo-style barbecue and campfire party. It is said that the Mosuo people can dance 72 types of dances. In the party, they roast suckling pig, whole lamb and bullfrog. While tasting the barbecue, tourist can learn the Mosuo dances.

5. Sulima Wine

In the whole Lugu Lake areas, it abounds in highland barley, barley, wheat, buckwheat, corn and barnyard grass, and all of them is the material of Sulima Wine. In the wine, there are some herbs like millet straw and skullcap. The wine has low alcohol contents, and tastes sour and sweet with faint scent. It also has the functions of refreshing oneself, enhancing appetite and promoting the secretion of saliva or body fluid.

Sulima Wine

6. Guangdang Wine

Guangdan Wine is named because of its alcoholic strength. It is known as the wine for walking marriage and it is also the common potable spirit for the Mosuo to treat their guests. With about 30° alcohol contents, it emits an unique fresh scent. People will not get hurt when drinking much. The more they drink, the more they want.

Guangdang Wine

7. Marinated Pear

The areas around Lugu Lake also teem with pyrus serrulata. The locals use it to make the marinated pear. They put several pears into the jar and fill salt, white wine, ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper and clean water. With one month sealed storage, it tastes delicious and crisp, sweet and sour.

Recommended Restaurants in Lugu Lake Tourist Areas

The restaurants mainly located in Lige Village and Daluoshui Village in Ninglang county and Lugu Lake Town in Yanyuan county. The popular restaurants include:
Lige Village: Laomu Shaokao, Yuanju Asang Huotang, Mosuo Restaurant, Lige Zhaxi Home and Yingxiang Chuanqi;
Daluoshui Village: Xienami Restaurant, Chanzuiguan and Yixinyuan Shiguan;
Lugu Lake Town: Lige Huotang, Haoren Xiaochi Restaurant near to Goddess Gulf.

Of course, there are many other restaurants distributed around Lugu Lake. When you are cycling or hiking along the road round the lake, you don't have to worry about no places for meal.