Let me try to continue with China before my memory fails me.
While we were along the Jiuzhaigou line, we visited a Tibetan 'house', for lack of a better word because it was more of like an individual compound by itself.
This is just the main door leading to a hall-like area which served as the dining room for that night. Again, due to camera constraints, I am unable to capture the whole compound. Or maybe it's just my skills. That is something debatable.
Either case, Tibetans are very religious people and they have this golden turnabout thingy which they turn in order to get blessings, I think. Not very sure about it because either the explanation was quite vague or that I wasn't paying attention. Maybe its the latter.
So, this is how it looks like. See the golden turning thingy? That is how it's supposed to look like when its turned vigorously by many people.
Now look at my favourite segment of the night: food.
These are the side dishes which look kind of weird at first glance but surprisingly, it doesn't taste that bad, especially the black thingy. And the plate at the top left and right hand corners taste better than 瓜子 and better still, there's no need to shell the thingy. Just have to pop it into my mouth.
For your info, these are not soup. The one at the left is some Tibetan tea which taste very diluted upon first sip but after that taste quite like plain soya bean water. It is quite hard to describe the taste. The one next to it is Tibetan beer/wine. Not very sure which is it though. It has quite a sweet and sour taste and its quite strong. And it gets a bit too much to be drank in large quantity. It gets increasingly sweet and sour. Hah.
In top of the side dishes above, there were also grilled lamb and beef and this was the only photo I've taken that is vaguely related to the grilled stuff. Think I was too hungry and gobbled up the beef and forgot to take photos.. Anyway, this is a grilled headless goat. It's quite tiny though. I don't know about its taste because I didn't eat the lamb, but the beef was absolutely delicious.
The stuff they eat are actually quite weird. Because Tibetans are mainly nomadic, their food are usually dry stuff like the 瓜子-like thingy above or stuff like milk/cheese/unknown stuff taken from their herd of cows and goats. I think its a little too weird for my taste.
Enough of food, the Tibetans are actually really nice and talented people. Most of them can sing and dance like its their second nature. Although the songs they sing are largely their own songs, but their voice are kind of amazing. Maybe it's the things they eat that give them such good voice and coordination. I don't have anymore photos of that night because after that, I was too busy having fun dancing around a fire with other people. It is exactly like what I see on TV where people just gather around a fire and dance around it. It was so much fun watching other people stumble over dance steps and when they finally grasp the gist of it, the song would have ended and they would have to re-learn new dance steps for the next song. Haha. And it's scary if you are in the circle and not dancing because there would be a group of Tibetans going around, grabbing people to throw up into the air.
Well, I had enough fun especially during the campfire-like dance segment but it was really tiring. Even worse than me walking up Jiuzhaigou. Hah.
This is just the main door leading to a hall-like area which served as the dining room for that night. Again, due to camera constraints, I am unable to capture the whole compound. Or maybe it's just my skills. That is something debatable.
So, this is how it looks like. See the golden turning thingy? That is how it's supposed to look like when its turned vigorously by many people.
These are the side dishes which look kind of weird at first glance but surprisingly, it doesn't taste that bad, especially the black thingy. And the plate at the top left and right hand corners taste better than 瓜子 and better still, there's no need to shell the thingy. Just have to pop it into my mouth.
For your info, these are not soup. The one at the left is some Tibetan tea which taste very diluted upon first sip but after that taste quite like plain soya bean water. It is quite hard to describe the taste. The one next to it is Tibetan beer/wine. Not very sure which is it though. It has quite a sweet and sour taste and its quite strong. And it gets a bit too much to be drank in large quantity. It gets increasingly sweet and sour. Hah.
In top of the side dishes above, there were also grilled lamb and beef and this was the only photo I've taken that is vaguely related to the grilled stuff. Think I was too hungry and gobbled up the beef and forgot to take photos..