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Cheese Curds 奶渣
Cheese Curds (奶渣) are the milk curds of the Tibetan kitchen in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (迪庆藏族自治州), Yunnan.
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Tibetan Yogurt 酸奶
Tibetan Yogurt (酸奶) in Lhasa (拉萨) is set from yak milk, thick enough that sugar sprinkled on top does not dissolve, and sharply sour.
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Dried Cheese Curds 奶渣
Dried Cheese Curds (奶渣) are the curds left from yak milk after butter has been churned out, dried into hard white pieces and eaten in Tibet as a snack and a seasoning.
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Cheese Curd Cake 奶渣糕
Cheese Curd Cake (奶渣糕) is a Tibetan food made from crumbled milk curd, butter and red sugar. In Shigatse (日喀则), butter cheese-curd cakes are among the traditional foods sold for the Farmers' New Year.
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Tibetan Yogurt 藏式酸奶
Tibetan Yogurt (藏式酸奶) is listed among the local specialties of Nyingchi, Tibet (Xizang). The name includes 酸奶 (cultured milk).
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Yaozhou Snowflake Candy 耀州雪花糖
Yaozhou Snowflake Candy (耀州雪花糖) is a millet-and-sesame malt candy from Yaozhou District (耀州区) of Tongchuan (铜川), Shaanxi. The Tongchuan city government lists it as a Shaanxi provincial intangible cultural heritage item.
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Sanyuan Puffed Sesame Rice Candy 三原蓼花糖
Sanyuan Puffed Sesame Rice Candy (三原蓼花糖) is a glutinous-rice sweet with a golden surface covered in sesame and a fine, mesh-like interior. White sugar and maltose syrup join the rice and sesame in its preparation.
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Sweet fermented barley 甜醅子
The grains retain a soft chew, with a sweet, lightly tangy fermented aroma. It is a spoonable grain dessert rather than ordinary unfermented breakfast cereal.
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Fermented Rice Soup with Milk and Egg 牛奶鸡蛋醪糟
Fermented Rice Soup with Milk and Egg (牛奶鸡蛋醪糟) is a hot, sweet drink-soup of milk, egg and laozao (醪糟), fermented glutinous rice, sold from night-market stalls in Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu.
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Frozen Soft Pear Dessert 软儿梨甜品
Frozen Soft Pear Dessert (软儿梨甜品) is the ruan'er or soft pear (软儿梨) of Lanzhou (兰州), eaten in winter after the whole fruit has frozen and thawed again.
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Liangzhou Giant Mooncake 凉州大月饼
Liangzhou Giant Mooncake (凉州大月饼) is the Mid-Autumn cake of Wuwei (武威) in Gansu, a layered, patterned cake whose defining feature, in the words of the Wuwei city government, is simply that it is big.
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Yak Milk Yogurt 牦牛酸奶
Yak Milk Yogurt (牦牛酸奶) is set yogurt made from the milk of yaks on the grasslands of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州), Gansu.
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