Sweet Tea House in Lhasa

Tea House

There may be thousands of sweet tea houses in Lhasa, no exaggeration. When you see many bicycles and motorbikes parking by the road, there must be tea houses for sure. Tourists travelling to Tibet will often drop by and have a cup of tea in a warm afternoon.

Unlike hullessbarley and buttered tea, Tibetan people don’t invent sweet tea, which yet has already been immersed into Tibetan people’s daily life. As to how on earth was the sweet tea brought into Tibet, there are many possible answers. One says that it was the Great Britain which once invaded Tibet that formed the tradition. Others say that this routine was influenced by its neighbor—Nepal and India, the paradise of sweet tea. However, the Tibetan sweet tea is much more different from others in both taste and mouth feels. Yet the way of making sweet tea stays the same. The ingredient must be black tea with no doubt. This is one planet that never grows on Tibetan plateau, which becomes available in the duration of trade and commercial exchange with other countries and regions.

In the old times, sweet tea houses were the places for the poor and the homeless. Also, women were not supposed to be at places like that, except prostitutes. Whoever goes to tea houses would be looked down upon by others. Yet time changes, now anyone can go to sweet houses for fun, chatting and watching TVs. It’s become part of Tibetan people’s life nowadays. Especially for travelers who are enjoying Tibet tours, sweet tea house is a perfect place to peek Tibetan people’s daily life.

with the flourishing of Tibet travel, hullessbarley becomes the representative symbol of Tibet and Lhasa. If you want to try one tea house, you’d better prepare yourself some exchange in advance. People in Lhasa who go to the tea house would often put the exchange on the table. The waitress takes some whenever she fills your cup, which forms a kind of trust between the 2. It’s like Tibetan Starbucks all over the streets in Lhasa.