Tibet has unique food and drink due to its highland climate, religious beliefs and distinctive ethnic customs. Famous traditional food includes butter tea and fried flour. Tibetans eat a lot of beef and mutton but avoid dog and donkey meat.
Butter tea is the most common drink in Tibet and made by mixing brick tea, butter and salt together.
Fried flour is made out of barley flour and eaten together with butter and sugar. Tibetans often bring barley flour with them in small leather bags when they leave home to do business. From barley flour Tibetans also make barley beer, which tastes a bit sour and is a favorite drink in Tibet.
In Tibet, tourists have access to Tibetan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine and western style dishes as well as Nepalese and Indian food in some hotel restaurants. It's worth noting that Sichuan dishes in Tibet are more expensive than in other parts of China.
Dine in Lhasa
Most of the restaurants in Lhasa cluster around the Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street, the center of Lhasa City. You can easily target them as the whold downtown areas are not large and easy strolling.