Tibet Tour for Seniors – Recommended Local Diets for Seniors

There is a series of special Tibetan diets which are favored by local Tibetans long time ago. To dietary habit in Tibet is largely decided by the special natural environment on Tibet Plateau. Some of the experts hold that taking some local diets might help tourists to get adapted to the plateau environment. Tibet Tour would like to recommend several local Tibetan dishes for seniors planning a Tibet tour.

Recommended Local Diets for Seniors Planning a Tibet Tour – Tsampa and Butter-Oil Tea

Tsampa (roasted barley flour), Tibet butter tea, yoghurt, barley wine, beef and mutton are the most important foods and drinks in the daily life of Tibetans. Seniors making a Tibet tour in winter are recommended to try the Tibetan Tsampa which takes barley as the raw material. They would also make Tsampa with barley and pea. It is not only the traditional food of Tibetans but also acted as the most important food to entertain the oversea tourists in the hotels in Tibet.

Local Tibetans would always eat stirred barley flour with butter tea. Butter is a kind of cream extracted from the milk. It plays important role in the daily life of Tibetans. It is of rich vitamin. Local Tibetans would drink tea with butter or toasted the butter into others types of foods. Generally, seniors making a Tibet tour in winter would be greeted by a bowl of Tibetan butter-oil tea if you visit the Tibetan families.

Recommended Local Diets for Seniors Planning a Tibet Tour – Chicken Stewed by Stone Pot

The chicken stewed by stone pot is one of the most noted Nyingchi foods. It is widely regarded as one of the most suitable local diets for seniors making a Tibet tour for its rich nutrients. It was originated in Nyingchi Prefecture and is widely spread to Lhasa and other regions in Tibet. Seniors making a Tibet tour could have a taste of the delicious soup in Lhasa if you are not planning to visit Nyingchi.

The chicken stewed by stone pot not only favored by seniors but also enjoys high reputation among younger tourists coming to Tibet the first time. It includes some precious materials, such as ginseng, Dangshen, conic gymnadenia tuber which only produced in Nyingchi. The soup of the chicken stewed by stone pot is the fresh snow-melt water. 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. It has been selected as one of the most typical Tibetan dishes beneficial for the adaptation of the high plateau environment.