Zada county travel guide; Food recommendation in Zhada county

Zhada county is located in the Ali area of Tibet, on the border. It is rich in natural resources and has great historical and cultural connotations. It is also the county with the least population in China. People here live a quiet and leisurely life, and their living standards have been greatly improved. This is a good tourist destination.

Zada is the least populated county in China, with less than 10,000 people. This is the shortest distance in a straight line from China to the Indian capital. If you can climb the Himalayas and jabber south, you can rush into New Delhi in a few hours. In addition, there is the site of Guge Dynasty, which is the most mysterious historical site in Tibet.

Zaguge site

When I came back from the Guge site that year, it was already lunch time, and I was going to find a place to eat in the county. After two rounds, I found that even in the smallest county of China, there are still Sichuan restaurants everywhere. My travel principle is never to eat foreign food.

So I found a Tibetan restaurant with a small facade and curtains hanging forever. The dining room is full of painted long and short tables, and pictures of Thangka or living Buddha are hung on the wall. A row of thermos bottles filled with buttered tea and sweet tea.

Over one million square kilometers of Tibet, from south to north and from east to west, all Tibetan restaurants look the same. Monotonicity is also the menu of Tibetan restaurants, and you don't even have to look at it. Anyway, the variety will not exceed the number of your fingers.

It was a young couple who opened the shop. Women look like standard Tibetan women. The young man has dark skin and big exaggerated sideburns.

I ordered a Tibetan steamed stuffed bun and a cup of sweet tea. When the proprietress went in to make steamed buns, I chatted with the little boss. He is from Pulan, and only opened a shop in Zada a few years ago. Pulan is also one of the least populated counties in China, which is a little bigger than the neighboring Zada County. Located at the junction of China, India and Nepal, it has the most important external passage of Ali-Pulan Port.

The small boss said that when he was four or five years old, he could see Indian businessmen bringing goods to do business every summer. He has been very strict in recent years and can't see them. Looking at the small boss's airplane head, I recalled stopping by the roadside, hearing cheerful and deafening Indian songs coming from the store, and thinking about the clothes of Indian male movie stars, I understood the origin of this young man's hairstyle. It is hard for outsiders to imagine how much Indian culture and art have influenced Tibet.

Steamed bread is served. They look exquisite and steamed. Most of the Tibetan steamed buns I used to eat in Tibet and Nepal were fried, so it was not easy to steam things at high altitude. It is stuffed with mutton. The dough is thick and there is not much stuffing.

There was once a special article about Tibetan buns (see Exploring Tibetan buns in Shigatse, China and Momo in Nepal).

The proprietress sent a bowl of free broth, which was muddled and had no actual content. I can't see a trace of green in front of these things. Tibetan food is like this. A few steamed buns don't look hungry, but a large cup of sweet tea is not low in calories.

At the end of this article, some readers may ask: Where is this little steamed stuffed bun? What's worth writing about?

The question is, why do steamed bread in Jiangnan appear in this restaurant serving local people in perhaps the most remote place on earth (few Chinese restaurants enter Tibet)? It is not wrong to say that it originated in Jiangnan. Traditionally, this kind of pasta is not available in India and Nepal. Nepal's steamed bread is imported from Tibet.

Was there steamed bread in Tibet before? There really won't be. Although most Tibetans are mainly pasta now, wheat has not been introduced into China for many years. My impression is that agricultural researchers cultivated high-quality plateau cold-resistant wheat in the sixties and seventies. Prior to this, the staple food of Tibetans was Bazin made by highland barley. So now all the food provided by Tibetan restaurants, such as Tibetan steamed buns, jiaozi, noodles and cakes, are actually Han recipes.

You can try to infer how steamed bread spreads on the roof of the world. The biggest possibility is that Sichuan chefs, with Sichuan cuisine across the northern foothills of the Himalayas, are invincible, just like in other parts of China. So Tibetans also learned the technology of pasta processing and brought it to Nepal, where it became Nepal's special food "Mo:Mo". At this time, it has been transformed into "Tibetan steamed stuffed bun", which seems to be a special diet for Tibetans.

Due to the limitation of plateau fuel, boiling point of water and so on, Tibetan steamed buns are small in size, because they are difficult to cook when they are big. If steamed buns in the south of the Yangtze River are exquisite in diet, they are so small and helpless in Tibetan areas.

Nepal: Mo

What is a traditional diet? Not far from Wan Li, I came to the farthest place in the world. I insisted on not going into Sichuan cuisine restaurant, only sitting with Tibetans. In fact, I still ate those things at home, and the taste was far from good.

If you have read my previous travel notes, you will understand why you must go to the local restaurant. It really doesn't matter whether it's delicious or not. I am not a foodie.

Send a photo of yourself in Zada, it's rare to show your face. After all, not many people have seen the remains of Guge.

Postscript:

At that time, due to physical reasons, I didn't visit the port of Pulan at the junction of the three countries, and later I deeply regretted it.

On June 13, 2008, Nepal passed a constitutional amendment on the territorial judgment of the disputed area south of Plum Port, which was considered to be beneficial to China, thus causing great anger in a certain country. So, maybe there will be another fire somewhere.

If we combine with yesterday's article "Bangong Lake has a bright and clean image memory, but the waves are constant", we may understand why China has jumped from the south of the Yangtze River to the westernmost tip of China.

The relationship between Pulan, Zada, Bangong Lake, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aksai Chin, New Delhi and Islamabad is as follows.

This series only talks about local cuisine. I'm just a foodie who doesn't understand politics.