Tibet's yak meat is of course the most famous, and the raw meat sauce made of yak meat is one of the most unforgettable foods that Bian Xiao has ever eaten. There is a Tibetan proverb: there is no Tibetan without yak, and there is yak where there are Tibetans.
Yak is known as the "boat on the plateau", and all plateau yaks feed on grass. Bian Xiao once heard the tour guide mention that plateau yaks eat rare game: eating Cordyceps sinensis, drinking Nongfu Spring and pulling Liuwei Dihuang Pills, which truly and vividly reflects the growing environment of yaks. Therefore, the meat quality of yak meat can be said to be the best among beef.
2, ghee.
Butter is extracted from milk and goat milk. First, heat the milk juice, pour it into a wooden barrel and beat it back and forth until it can be stirred into a state of oil-water separation, then scoop up a layer of floating light yellow fat and put it in your pocket, and then cool it to get ghee. Butter has high nutritional value and many ways to eat it, but in Tibet, it is mainly used to make butter tea.
3, palm ginseng.
Panax palmatum, as its name implies, is shaped like a palm. It is a very precious medicinal material unique to southeast Tibet, which has the effect of enriching blood and benefiting qi. It tastes a bit like potatoes, usually eaten in stone pot chicken. As one of the precious characteristic medicinal materials in Tibetan medicine, Palmatum has long been totally dependent on natural wild resources because of the difficulty in artificial reproduction.
4, highland barley.
Highland barley has strong regional characteristics. When it comes to highland barley, people will think of Tibet and highland barley wine. Perhaps no crop is so closely integrated with a country as highland barley. As if a woman in a traditional Tibetan costume has been standing on the plateau, the sunshine of the plateau is sprinkled on a large area of highland barley and also on her face.
5, wooden bowl.
"I can't throw it away, I can't take it away. If my lover is a wooden bowl, I can hold it in my arms. " This is the lyrics of an ancient Tibetan ballad. In the lyrics, Tibetans compare wooden bowls to lovers, which can also be understood as being as important as lovers. A small wooden bowl, for Tibetans, is the support of life and emotion, so we can imagine the importance of wooden bowls in Tibetan life.