Nyingchi Tour – Local Dishes in Nyingchi

Tourists making a Nyingchi tour could not only appreciate the rare-visited natural landscapes but also enjoy the local delicious dishes in Nyingchi. Tibet Tour would like to introduce several famous local diets in Nyingchi for toutists' reference.

Nyingchi Tour – Tibetan Flavor Pork

Tibetan Flavor Pork is one of the most noted local dishes in Nyingchi. The main material of this dish is cut from the Ginseng pig, a kind of free-ranging pig on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This kind of pig is very rare all around the world since it is raised in the natural and pollution-free alpine region with an altitude of 3000-4000 meters. The Ginseng pig takes the natural wild plants and fruits as its main food. An adult Ginseng pig weighs only about 50 kilograms. The Tibetan Flavor Pork has been one of the most famous brands in the Tibetan food culture.

Tourists making a Nyingchi tour are highly advised to have a taste of the Tibetan Flavor Pork if you are not a vegetarian. The pork is characterized by low fat content, thin skin, fresh meat and rich nutrients. It is researched that the pork of the Ginseng pig contains 19 kinds of measurable amino acids and various necessary trace elements. It takes about 2 years for a baby Ginseng pig to grow up to an adult Ginseng pig.

Nyingchi Tour – Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot

The Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot is another famous local dishes in Nyingchi. It enjoys high reputation among tourists who've been here. It is a quite nutritive dish which is very suitable for tourists come to the plateau environment the first time. It includes some precious materials, such as ginseng, Dangshen, conic gymnadenia tuber which only produced in Nyingchi, radix-polygoni multiflori, angelica, Tibetan caladium, yam slices, rhizoma gastrodiae, coix seed, lily root, ginger, pepper, red dates, medlar and some other 15 kinds of spices.

The experts hold that taking some local food is quite helpful for tourists' adaptation to the plateau environment and the Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot is a pretty good choice for tourists making a Nyingchi tour. The soup of the Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot is the fresh snow-melt water. The stone pot is excellent ware for cooking, stewing meat and boiling vegetables. The foods stewed by the stone pot are much more delicious and nutritive. The Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot is beneficial for people caught a hypertension, heart disease, cardiovascular disease and some other diseases.