Dining in Tsedang
Tsedang has a good choice of food. It is lower than most of Tibet, so fruit and vegetables are easier to find. Unlike the rest of Tibet, most restaurants in Tsedang serve Sichuan food.
Sichuan restaurants are everywhere and inexpensive, from smart restaurants to simple roadside places.
Tibetan Food in Tsedang
Tibetan dishes you can try in Tsedang include Tibetan sausages, barley wine, butter tea, air-dried yak meat, cold yak tongue, steamed meat buns, shabhaley (fried meat pies), sweet tea, milk tea and yoghurt.
Restaurants in Tsedang Town
- Noodle and dumpling shops — clean, cheap places serving noodles and clay-pot dishes, popular with locals and travellers.
- Tashi Restaurant — run by the same family as Tashi in Shigatse, with Nepali-style food, pizza, curries and good breakfasts. English menu.
Restaurants Around Samye Monastery
- Monastery Restaurant — inside the Samye Monastery grounds. Simple, filling food for pilgrims and visitors.
- Friendship Snowland Restaurant — at the east gate of Samye. Chinese and Tibetan dishes, a little cheaper than the monastery restaurant.
About Tsedang: Tsedang (also written Tsetang or Zedang) is the main town of Lhoka (Shannan), southeast of Lhasa, at about 3,550 m. It is usually visited together with Samye Monastery and the Yarlung Valley, the cradle of Tibetan civilisation.
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