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Restaurants in Lhasa serve the best food and accommodation in Tibet. The
food includes Tibetan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine and western style dishes.
Some hotel restaurants even provide Nepalese and Indian food. It's worth
noting that Sichuan dishes in Tibet are more expensive than in other
parts of China. Tourist restaurants also serve delicacies and almost
every hotel has western food. Most of the restaurants can be found
clustered around the Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street, the center of
Lhasa City, so that travelers can find places to eat and drink within
easy reach.
Where to Dine
Tibetan Restaurants
Crazy Yak Saloon lies next door to Kirey Hotel on Beijing East Road. It
has uniquely Tibetan decor and furnishings. Tibetan food has a good
reputation here and the yak meat comes recommended. The other highlight
is the Tibetan song and dance show from 19:30 to 20:30 every evening.
Ethnic Restaurant lies opposite the Kirey Hotel, on East Beijing Road,
and it is one of the largest Tibetan restaurants in Lhasa. The restaurant
serves aweto chicken and aweto beef as well as some common dishes.
Snow-Deity Palace Tibetan Style Restaurant is located just west of the
Potala Palace Plaza. It is one of the only slap-up Tibetan Style
restaurants in Lhasa. There is authentic Tibetan food on offer such as
freshly fried mutton chops and Tibetan steamed stuffed buns.
Snowland Restaurant next to Snowland Hotel on Mentsikhang Road has a
range of western food, Tibetan food and Nepalese food. Its Nepalese food
and pizza are delicious. The price is moderate when compared with the
excellent quality of the food.
Tashi Restaurant, close to Penthoc Guesthouse and Tashi 2 in the Kirey
Hotel is a favorite of many travelers. It is clean, quiet and the staffs
speak good English. They offer Tibetan food including Tibetan momos,
tsampa, thukpa and fried yak meat as well as spaghetti, mashed potatoes
and fries.
Tibetan Cafeteria is located west of Middle Beijing Road. It offers
Tibetan food such as fried mutton chops, radish stew, yak meat and potato
buns.
Others
Aloo Gang is located on Duosengge Road. It serves veggie food, yak butter
tea and soup.
Barkhor Cafe has various drinks and foods and a few PCs with internet
access are available. Its rooftop terrace is popular among travelers
since you can enjoy drinks watching the sunset over the Jokhang Temple.
Beimei Fast Food (North America Fast Food), on Beijing East Road, serves
hamburgers, hotdogs and soups etc.
Curried Potato Restaurant is located at the first crossing on the right
of Jokhang Temple and offers delicious but cheap food such as curried
potato, curried barbecue and yogurt.
Hard Yak Cafe in Lhasa Hotel has a range of expensive western food and a
good ambience. Lhasa Hotel also has a fast food stall on Mentsikhang Road
serving hamburgers and fried tomatoes.
Kailash Restaurant on the rooftop of Banak Shol Hotel on Beijing East
Road is also a great place to dine. With pleasant and friendly service,
the restaurant serves food including a nice breakfast, yak burgers and
many vegetarian options too.
Makye Ame Restaurant on the southeastern corner of Barkhor Street is
often busy with western travelers. It serves tasty dishes with pasta and
pesto and makes good coffee. A few computer terminals make emails
possible too.
Xinfeng Restaurant is located at the East Beijing Road provides all kinds
of European food, especially the grilled burgers.
Aside from the above-mentioned restaurants, the night market on Duosenge
Road is an interesting place where you can get street food and drink at
very reasonable prices.
For more information about local Tibetan food, please refer to the
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Lhasa Travel Reviews
I have until 10:00AM to say goodbye to the Barkhor circuit, visit the
Jokhang Temple one more time, and grab a quick breakfast of dumplings and
rice porridge. --- <A> Leaving Tibet: An Overland Exit by PLATTC
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The assortment gets completed by a huge number of food stores (fresh meat
and Yak butter most of the times) and delicious streetkitchens. ---
Barkhor Area
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Bon was the indigenous religion of Tibet that, when partly absorbed by
the Buddhist traditions introduced from India in the 8th century, gave
Tibetan Buddhism much of its distinctive character.
Little was known to the outside world of this once flourishing religion
until recently due to the fact that its followers were subject to severe
persecution. With the growth in the popularity of Tibet as a tourist
destination and an increasing interest in the region's history, studies
have been carried out into the traditions of Bon.
Shamanistic in nature, in as much as it is based on the concept of a
world pervaded by good and evil spirits, it is believed to have
originated in the land of Olmo Lungring. It was introduced into the
ancient Kingdom of Shang Shung, which once covered much of today's
Tibetan territory by Tonpa Shenrab Miwo. He was born a prince and had
experiences similar to those of Sakyamuni, his Buddhist counterpart and
was said to have subdued a number of demons. A fundamental belief of the
followers of Bon was that in their heaven, to which they referred as
'Sridpa Yesang', there were three deities who controlled the world. These
were Dagpa, Salba and Shepa, one of whom controlled the past, another the
present and the third controlled the future. It was they who held the key
to Bon doctrines and Tonpa Shenrab Miwo claimed to be their earthly
incarnation endowed with the power to control the current time. In the
eighth century, Songtsen Gampo conquered Shang Shung and established a
unified Tibet, introducing Buddhism as the chosen religion. As the Bon
priests tried to exercise influence in royal and political affairs by
claiming supernatural powers, the ruling Tubo family encouraged Buddhism
while banning the practice of Bon. It was during the reign of Lang Darma
that the followers of Bon endeavoured to eradicate Buddhism but this was
to fail following the assassination of Lang Darma. Buddhism rose in
popularity while Bon went into decline.
In order that their faith should not be entirely wiped out, the followers
of the Bon doctrines introduced reforms and adopted aspects of Buddhism.
Despite its suppression, Bon traditions survived under difficult
conditions and continued to develop aspects of metaphysics, cosmology,
philosophy and an extensive written canon. In 1998 a Tibetan Tibetologist
produced statistics which showed that some 90 monasteries in the Tibet
Autonomous Region, the majority being in Dengchen (a county in Chambo)
had a population of some 3000 monks, about 90 reincarnated high monks and
over 130 thousand Bon followers. In the main, there are now three Bon
sects, these being the Old Bon, The Yungdrung Bon and the New Bon.
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