the dietary habit of Tibetans

People around the world shows great interests for Tibet travel. They are curious about all sides of Tibet and dream that they can have China and Tibet travel someday. Here we will talk about the the dietary habit of Tibetans.

Most of Tibetans follows three meals a day except the harvest time. The harder labor intensive at that time has increased their appetite that they will have even four or five meals a day. Tibetans take Tsanba as their main food especially in pastoral area. Tsaba looks like the fried noodle in north China. When Tibetans eat Tsanba, they will put some yak butter into the bowl and some tea as well. Then mix Tsanba flour by fingers. It's easy to take so you can see Tibetans always carry a wooden bowl and a skin bag full of Tsanba.

In the past years Tibetans ate little vegetables. They will dry the red meat which has cut into strip in winter by wind and keep it for a long time. The Tibetan butter we always see is from the red meat. Tibetans like putting the butter into tea and other milchigs as a kind of material. Tibetans also regard the buttered tea as daily drink cooking with milk for the supplement of Vitamin deficiency.

The cooker used by Tibetans is also unique and full of local characteristic. In the Tibetan area, every family has ghee tea canister and tea pot. People live in most parts of Tibet use dry cow dung as fuel for the burner and take the iron triangle as stovetop. Locals in Tibetan pasturing area always carry with a refined Tibetan Dao mainly used for cutting food killing sheep peeling and setting up the tent.