Lasha Cuisine
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.
Air drying beef（风干牛肉）
The raw beef the Tibetan nation likes.It was made at every autumn.People cut off the fresh beef into strips, puts on the string the table salt, the pepper, hot pepper, the ginger powder,and hang the beef in coolly and ventilate place.After the air drying it becomes flaxen, friable and fragnant. And while chewing it does not have the dregs to stuff your tooth.Tibet belongs to the high and cold area,so the food is not easy to become rotten or deteriorated.The beef can keep fresh for a long time.
Qingke（青稞）
Qingke (Highland Barley) is the main ingredient of tsampa. Tsampa is actually barley flour made from parched barley, un-husked and ground into fine flour and then eaten with butter.People also make tsampa by mixing qingke flour and peas.Tsampa made from qingke is a Tibetan traditional food,severed in the restaurants of Lhasa to accommodate the visitors from all over the world.At religious festivals,Tibetans will shed tsampa as a way of blessing.
GuTu（古突）
This is Tibetan nationality's family dinner on lunar new year's eve, that is, the December 29th in the Tibeten calendar. Its original meaning is "the gruel with nine materials on December".The gruel is made of nine materials:wheat grain, apricot,wool,hot pepper,porcelain piece,introverted twist group,extroverted twist group,pea,charcoal.Every material has its certain significance.The person who has eaten wool will be easily moved in the next year;Person who has hot pepper will not have mercy on others;However if a person has charcoal,he will do bad things next year,and so on.
Shangrila
Make time in you r busy tour schedule for dinner at the Shangrila. As dancers perform traditional routines, your taste buds will be treated to an 18-course Tibetan buffet-a superb opportunity to try indigenous food such as sauteed yak lung, cold yak tongue, and wild sweet potatoes. The colorful scroll paintings that line the walls, the darkwood furniture, and the congenial staffers that happily explain the dishes sets this place apart from other dinner-and-a-show restaurants. Reservations are necessary-sometimes a day in advance-and you should arrive by 7 pm for the best seats, The performance and buffet are a set price of Y80; if you want to skip the buffet, you'll have to fork over a Y50 cover charge
Dunya
Meaning"The World" in 10 languages, Dunya serves a melting pot of international dishes. The western food here is slightly disappointing, but the Indian and Nepalese dishes are first rate; both can be complemented by a bottle of Australian wine or a cup of real coffee-both rarities in Tibet. With its exposed-brick interior and a polite English=speaking staff, Dunya feels like a real restaurant, not another hole-in-the-wall eatery. Upstairs is a well-stocked bar with a balcony where you'll often find the Dutch proprietor chatting with customers.
Tashi
A popular hangout for foreigners, Tashi is the kind of restaurant where conversations with other diners are inevitable. The most popular dish here is a unique creation called the bobi, a kind of tortilla into which sauteed chicken, vegetables, and cream cheese are stuffed. If you're looking to add a bit of heft to your meal, try the delicious cauliflower croquettes, which are deep-fried patties of cauliflwer, potato, peas, and carrots. The yak burger is also tasty.
