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Ruoergai Dining
A majority of residents in Ruoergai are Tibetans and Qiang people and they mainly eat Tibetan food, Qiang food and Sichuan food. Different food has different flavor and characters and they are all worth your try.
Where to eat in Ruoergai?
It is easy to find a restaurant in Ruoergai down town, near Business Street and Xiangbala Street. There is also a main street in Langmusi town where many restaurants are gathered there. Yak meat is one of the most popular specialties in Ruoergai. In addition, highland barley wine, Zanba, Block noodle with pickled Chinese cabbage, glutinous potato cake and yogurt are also the famous and tasty food in Ruoergai. The followings are the recommended local food and recommended restaurants in Ruoergai.
Recommended Local Foods
There are many popular and delicious local foods in Ruoergai. Some recommended local foods are listed here. You can learn more about the local foods from the following list.
Highland Barley Wine
Highland Barley Wine, called as “Qiang” in Tibetan, is made of highland barley which is one kind of main grain produced in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Its flavor is a little bit sour and has a special fragrance. It is not only a kind of common drink in Tibetans’ daily life, but also a great drink that be used for entertaining guests and celebrating festivals. If you are welcomed by Tibetans with highland barley wine, you will receive three bowls of it. The Tibetan custom is that you do not need to drink all of the first two bowls of highland barley wine, but you have to drink over the last bowl of highland barley wine in order to show your respect for the host. Tibetans usually sing beautiful songs while they are drink highland barley wine.
Highland Barley WineZanBa
Zanba is a traditional staple food for Tibetan people and it is eaten by Tibetans every day. Zanba is made from highland barley. Wash the highland barley first and then dry it in the sun. When the barley is waterless, grind it into flour. Add some buttered tea, milk residue and sugar into the barley flour and stir them together. At last, divide the barley paste into small pieces and Zanba is available for you to eat. Zanba is full of nutrition and with high calorie that it can keep out the cold and alley your hunger. Furthermore, it is easy to take along and preserve Zanba.
ZanbaYak Meat
Yak meat have high protein and low fat because they habitat in Sichuan-Tibet plateau with high altitude and cold and non-polluted environment. It is one of the most common foods in Tibetan areas. And it is often cooked into many different kinds of dishes, such as sliced dried Yak meat, spiced Yak meat and roasted Yak meat. The spiced Yak meat is stewed in soy sauce and then is cut into pieces. You can eat it with cayenne pepper and highland barley wine. It is really delicious. It is convenient for you to buy vacuum packages of cooked yak meat in many stores. The sliced dried Yak meat is also very tasty that you can buy some for your relatives and friends as presents.
Yak MeatBlock Noodles with Pickled Chinese Cabbage
Block noodles with pickled Chinese cabbage is a kind of traditional Tibetan food in Ruoergai. The process for making picked Chinese cabbage is to boil the cabbage and put it into a jar when the boiled cabbage is cold. Seal the jar and store it in a shade place. After about a week, the picked Chinese cabbage can be eaten. Besides pickled Chinese cabbage, some bacon, yak meat, potato and other sauces are also added in the block noodle in order to make the noodle more delicious.
Block Noodles with Pickled Chinese Cabbage
Glutinous Potato Cake
Glutinous Potato Cake is a kind of local snake in Ruoergai. Its main raw material is potatoes. The steps for making glutinous potato cakes: steam potatoes firstly, then put the steamed potatoes in a container and smash them. Next, strike the sticky potatoes into glutinous cakes. The last step is to boil them in a pot. After boiling, add some pickled Chinese cabbage and pepper. The delicious glutinous potato cake is done.
Glutinous Potato CakeYogurt
Yogurt in Ruoergai is made of Yak milk. Its flavor is pure and strong. It looks like soft tofu and tastes sour and sweet. It is totally different from the ordinary yogurt in other place. The yogurt of original taste is so sour that few people can eat it. So, if you do not like sour, you can add some sugar or honey in it.
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