To taste delicious Tibetan meal and overlook Barkhor Street in a sunny afternoon at Makye Ame must be a highlight of Kathmandu-Lhasa tour package.
The Makye Ame means "Single Girl" in Tibetan language. The name of Makye Ame originated from the love poem of the sixth Dalai Lama - Tsangyang Gyatso. It is said that its the name of Tsangyang Gyatso's lover. And this khaki building is the place he dated with his lover.
The Makye Ame, located in the southeast of Barkhor Street in Lhasa downtown, mainly supply Nepal foods, Indian foods and Tibetan foods. The Makye Ame is full of rich Tibetan characteristics. The platform on the top of Makye Ame is the best spot to overlook the Barkhor Street, with East Barkhor Street and South Barkhor Street in your view. Just sit on the platform on the the upstair of Makye Ame, drink a cup of fragrance sweet tea, overlook the pilgrims on the circumambulation, and write dow your story on the special message book of Makye Ame. Almost every tourist who wander at the Barkhor Street would like to spend a nice time at Makye Ame in a sunshine sunny afternoon.
Tibetan is a nationality pays great attention to diet culture. Due to the three prefectures of Tibet cover vast region, Tibetans form various diet culture with rich content. Makye Ame based on the diet culture in three prefectures, combining tradition and innovation together to create the new brand of Tibetan diet culture.
In order to meet different diet requirements of customers both in broad and at home, Makye Ame gathered, integrated and extracted different special foods and cooking methods, created many new Tibetan meals.
The specialty dishes in Makye Ame includes roasted lamb chop, fried beef with sour radish, roasted fresh mushroom, ginseng fruit salad with yoghurt, tsamba, barley wine and butter tea. It will be a nice experience to taste delicious Tibetan meal at Makye Ame and overlook the Barkhor Street, experience the most authentic Tibetan life.