Food

Lhobas have always lived on corn and Jizhua rice, most often roasted. However, they are presently accustomed to the Tibetan diet: eating Zamba made of highland barley and drinking butter tea.

Their food consists of roasted or dried meat, buckwheat cakes, dumplings of maize or millet flour, rice or buckwheat and zhamba, potatoes. They are heavy drinkers of corn liquor and buttered tea. Bamboo grows in abundance in Lhoba areas; therefore, they weave many bamboo items-baskets, mats, hoops, ropes, bowls, basins and rain capes.