Eating in Ngari

There are mainly four types of cuisine you can find in Ngari: Tibetan food, Sichuan food, Xinjiang food and Hunan/Dongbei food. Tibetan food is mainly Tsampa, yak beef, yak butter tea, and momos. Sichuan food and Hunan food are similar when it comes to using chilli peppers and flavoring. Xinjiang food specializes in hand-pulled noodles, naan bread, lamb skewers and the use of mutton, beef and chicken instead of pork.

Famous Restaurants in Nagri

Chongqing Home-Style Restaurant

This is a restaurant run by a friendly family from Sichuan. The most welcomed dishes here are mutton hotpot, rib dishes, pig leg soup and Chinese breakfast like noodles and deep-fried dough sticks. The highlights of this restaurant are their home-made Tofu, sweet turnip and dipping sauce made from chilli pepper, spring onion and coriander.

Mao’s Hunan-Style Restaurant

As a Hunan style restaurant, it prides in braised pork belly, steamed egg cake, pine nuts and corn and sautéed aubergine and string bean, etc. Besides, it serves a simple but tasty vegetarian soup made of cucumber, tomato and ginger, which has very good reviews from tourists. The highlights are the dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots transported all the way from Hunan.

No.1 Chicken Restaurant

This is a two-storeyed Xinjiang restaurant with Xinjiang style decoration, and waiters are Xinjiang natives as well. The well-reviewed dishes here are chicken, skewers, egg soup with leafy veggies and seaweed. Amazing as it is, it provides appetizers like shrimp flavoured flakes. You should have probably found that in China we don’t usually have appetizers before the main course and no dessert afterwards either.

Dongbei Restaurant

Dongbei here means the three provinces from northeastern China where the weather is icy in the winter time. The boss of this restaurants is a native Dongbei couple. They have some nice rice noodles with pickles, chicken stewed with mushrooms and hand-made dumplings. Breakfast is also available which comes with congee and some side dishes. This restaurant also provides a place for you to stay overnight if you want to. And you can gather in the hall to warm up yourself by the stove before going into bed!

Snowland Restaurant

The name may be a bit misleading but it really has some very nice skewers and steamed rice rolls! What a combination! It is a kind of Cantonese food. And to make it, you have to soak rice for a whole night, grind it into rice milk, give it a bowlful into a steaming pan, steam it and then eat with other toppings like lettuce, egg and sausage – anything you like.

Qinghai Salard Noodle Shop

This Muslim restaurant provides some of the nicest Qinghai-style noodles and pancake. They also have some very tasty cold dishes life deep stewed beef and cucumber salad. If you are kinda bored with Tibetan food or Sichuanese food, this restaurant is perfect to go to.

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