Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong are expensive to eat because most of the supplies are brought in from outside, usually around US$3 for a stir-fry with meat.
On the way to Jiuzhaigou, you can dine in Mao County and Songpan, where dining conditions are fair.
Local special meals are mainly beef and mutton, and to the two major local ethnic minorities – Tibetan and Qiang characteristics related to the Tibetan to smoked barbecue meat, supplemented by barley wine, ghee tea, yogurt and other beverages; Qiang like to eat hot and sour flavors, animal offal, and the local Han Chinese to the Szechuan cuisine.
Jiuzhaigou tibetan food
1.Yak meat
Yak meat after salt brine, cut into thin slices, mixed with chili pepper is not a good dish to drink, of course, the wine to drink the local barley wine. Yak meat is produced in the highlands around Songpan and Jiuzhaigou, and is aromatic with a little wild flavor.
2.Milk Dregs Buns
Milk dregs buns, as the name suggests, are made with milk dregs, fresh milk dregs are sour and white, and can be used for filling, from which milk dregs buns are derived. After drying the milk dregs, Tibetans eat it as a snack, but also in the porridge or soup inside as a condiment, dry milk dregs of Han Chinese people are not used to eating, but the milk dregs of the buns to the Tibetans and Han Chinese, the young and old alike.
3.Barley wine
Barley wine, called “Qiangqiang” in Tibetan, is a major grain produced on the Tibetan plateau – barley made. It is the favorite drink of the Tibetan people, for festivals, marriages, births, welcome friends and relatives, essential.
4.Ginseng Rice
Ginseng fruit rice is regarded as an auspicious food by Tibetan compatriots, who will eat this food first on New Year’s Day.
It is made by first boiling the ginseng fruit, then scooping the rice into a bowl, topping the rice with the boiled ginseng fruit, sprinkling it with sugar, and finally drizzling it with a little hot ghee juice.
Jiuzhaigou traditional food
1.Taro patties
The most unique food
Taro patties are the most unique food in Jiuzhaigou. Taro, also known as potatoes, after steaming the taro in the barrel pounded until the potatoes were sticky lumps, and then in the patty cake, placed in the pot to cook, boiled into the pickled vegetables, chili, smooth, delicious.
2.Buckwheat Noodles
Coarse grain delicious
Buckwheat ground into flour can do a lot of things, buckwheat buns, buckwheat noodles, buckwheat noodles are coarse grains, good for the body, and noodles gluten, the mouth fragrant, you can choose a bowl of beef buckwheat noodles in addition to a small vegetable accompaniment as a simple dinner.
3.Vegetarian roasted Ruyi
Ruyi vegetable that fern, because of its shape like a handle of green ancient Ruyi and named. Overseas it is listed as health food, known as the “king of mountain vegetables”.
If you want to taste more local specialties, you can also eat taro tsampa, Jiuzhai persimmon cakes, buckwheat cakes, Jiuzhai pickled vegetable noodles and other flavors.
Other specialties such as also roasted whole sheep, hand grilled steak, mixed noodles, ghee tea and so on.
