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Tibetan cuisine reflects local climes and customs. Few crops grow at the high altitudes that characterize Tibet, although some areas in Tibet are low enough to grow such crops as rice, oranges, bananas, and lemon.[1] The most important crop is barley. Flour milled from roasted barley, called tsampa, is the staple food of Tibet.[2] Balep is Tibetan bread eaten for breakfast and lunch. Thukpa is mainly consumed for dinner. It consists of noodles of various shapes, vegetables and meat in broth. Tibetan cuisine is traditionally served with bamboo chopsticks, in contrast to other Himalayan cuisines, which are eaten by hand. Small soup bowls are also used, and rich Tibetans fed from bowls of gold and silver.[3]

Meat dishes are likely to be yak, goat, or mutton, often dried, or cooked in a spicy stew with potatoes. Mustard seed is cultivated in Tibet, and therefore features heavily in its cuisine. Yak yoghurt, butter and cheese are frequently eaten, and well-prepared yoghurt is considered something of a prestige item. As well as consumed in Tibet, varieties of Tibetan dishes are consumed in Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and by the Tibetan diaspora in India, and various regions of northern Nepal, such as Mustang.

Other Tibetan foods include:


Thukpa, A Tibetan noodle dishSha Balep - a bread stuffed with seasoned beef and fashioned into semi-circular or circular shapes and which according to regional variations is either deep fried or pan fried like pot stickers.
Balep korkun - a central Tibetan flatbread cooked on a skillet rather than in an oven.
Momos - a type of steamed dumpling, a heavier version of the Chinese jiaozi.
Thenthuk - a type of cold-weather soup made with noodles and various vegetables.
Shab Tra - Stir-fried meat tossed with celery, carrots and fresh green chili.
Gyurma - Tibetan blood sausages with yak or sheep's blood and roasted barley flour or rice as filler
De-Thuk - a type of soup that includes yak or sheep stock along with rice, different types of Tibetan cheeses and droma which is a type of tibetan root.
Tsam-thuk - a type of soup that uses yak or sheep stock and roasted barley flour as well as a variety of Tibetan cheeses.
Dre-si - Tibetan sweet dish using rice that is cooked in unsalted butter and mixed with raisins, droma (gourd shaped root found in Tibet), dates and other nuts. This dish is usually served only on Losar (Tibetan new year).
Khapsey - Tibetan cookies or biscuits that is deep fried and usually made during celebrations such as the Tibetan new year or weddings. Khapseys are fashioned into many different intricate shapes and textures. Some are sprinkled with powdered sugar while other shapes such as the donkey ear-shaped khapseys are used for decoration.[4]

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