Garze Shopping

There are many specialties for your Garze Shopping, specifically: Tibetan Gesar painted stone carvings, yak meat, white mushroom, Luding cherry, Xiangcheng blueberry, Xiangcheng Tibetan egg, Danba pomegranate, Kangding cold noodles and Guokui, Yajiang matsutake, Jiulong pepper, Derong tree pepper, Batang apple, etc. Garze Shopping Guide provides you the detailed information about Garze local specialties, featured shopping areas, What and Where to Buy in Garze, Garze Local Products, Souvenirs.

Specialties in Garze

Dried Yak Meat

Dried Yak meat is rich in nutrition, high in energy and low in fat. Its red blood cells and hemoglobin are 50% - 100% higher than those of yellow cattle. It is a good food for energy supplement and physical fitness. The yak meat shall be hung in a cool and ventilated place in the early winter to let it dry naturally. Put salt, pepper and other seasonings on the meat before be dried. Due to the cold winter night, the dried yak meat is extremely crisp and delicious. Dried yak meat in Kangding is very famous, as long as visitors to Kangding must go to have a good taste.

Kangding Snow Tea

Kangding Snow Tea grows in the permafrost with snow all the year round at an altitude of more than 4000 meters on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. It is rare in yield and difficult to collect. However, it has unique effects, such as clearing away heat and detoxification, calming the liver and reducing blood pressure, clearing the lungs and coughing, promoting body fluid and thirst, refreshing the brain and calming the nerves, brightening the eyes, etc. It has remarkable effects on high blood pressure, neurasthenia, lung heat, cough, yin deficiency and hot tide, heatstroke, etc., which is known as a rarity and a good gift to relatives and friends.

Daocheng Air Dried Meat

Air dried meat is generally made from November to March. Tibetan residents in Daocheng like to make fresh beef and mutton into small pieces to dry for food. It has a unique taste, crisp entrance, and can be dipped in salt and pepper powder or sauce. If you want to visit the Tibetan family, you can buy some from the owner, and you can also buy them on the street.

Sertar Wolfberry

Wolfberry has the best harvest quality before and after the summer solstice every year, when the fruit is ripe. In autumn, wolfberry should be harvested between the Limit of Heat and Bailu. It has the effects of nourishing kidney water, benefiting essence and Qi, moistening lung, clearing liver heat and brightening eyes. It is mainly used to treat deficiency and damage of tuberculosis, cough, red eyes, etc. Sertar wolfberry is picked strictly according to time, so it is famous for its quality at home and abroad.

More Specialties in Garze:

• Ginseng Fruit
• Danba Apple
• Danba Honey
• Xiangcheng Blueberry
• Luding Loquat
• Luding Chestnut
• Danba Pomegranate
• Tricholoma Matsutake

Chinese Herbal Medicines

Cordyceps Sinensis

Cordyceps sinensis is a kind of common traditional Chinese medicine produced in Sichuan Province. It is the dry daughter and body of the ergot fungus Cordyceps sinensis and its host bat moth, bat moth larva, etc. The daughter comes from the head of the host larva. It is solitary and slender like a baseball bat, with a length of 4cm-11cm. It is warm and sweet in nature and has the functions of nourishing lung, kidney, essence and Qi, etc.

Rhodiola Rosea

Rhodiola grows in the cold and pollution-free zone with altitude of 1800-2500 meters. Its growing environment is harsh, so it has strong vitality and special adaptability. It can be used for medicine, invigorating qi and clearing lung, benefiting intelligence and nourishing heart. It is a kind of widely used traditional Chinese medicine. Also it has the very big cosmetology effect.

Plateau Ginseng

Ginseng produced in the plateau is very nutritious. It is suitable for pneumonia, bronchitis, heart disease, mountain discomfort, nourishing the body, eliminating oral inflammation, etc. It is one of the most popular tonics and has a good health care effect.

Velvet Antler

Velvet antler is a kind of precious medicinal material, which refers to the young horn of the male deer of the sika deer or the red deer. It is warm but not dry. It can stimulate and improve the body function, has a better physical strengthening effect on the patients with general weakness and long illness.

More Chinese Herbal Medicines in Garze:

• Poria Cocos
• Rhizoma Anemarrhenae
• Astragalus membranaceus in Litang
• Fritillaria Cirrhosa

Arts and Crafts in Garze

Litang Silver

Silver ware production in Litang has a history of more than 300 years. Silver has the functions of disinfection, detoxification and rheumatism elimination. It is also said that drinking water or tea with silver products can nourish the stomach. Since ancient times, the folk silver has been said to ward off evil spirits.

Tibetan Ornaments

The main materials of Tibetan ornaments are natural stones, corals, animal bones and silver. The rough appearance has delicate connotation. Small patterns, engraving, and mosaic are ingenious designs of Tibetan decoration and emit strong ancient and local flavor. All the decorations are hand-made, which is a good souvenir.

Danba Drum

It is a kind of Tibetan drum unique to Danba. The drum surface is made of pure cow leather and is painted with exquisite patterns. The drum circumference is a beautiful pattern that can be painted after careful carving. The color is very beautiful. It takes more than a week to finish the painting and about a month to finish a drum. 

More Arts and Crafts in Garze:

• Crystal
• Buddha Beads

Where to Buy in Garze

Commercial Streets in Garze

• Kangding Commercial Street(康定商业街)
  Add: Yanhe Dong Road, Kangding(康定县沿河东路)
• E'chu Street(俄初街)
  Add: Daocheng County, Garze Prefecture(甘孜州稻城县)
• Yading Tianjie Commercial Pedestrian Street(亚丁天街商业步行街)
  Add: Section I of Yading Road, Daocheng County(稻城县亚丁路一段)

Specialty Stores in Garze

• Tao Tao Zang Di Shi(淘淘藏地饰)
  Add: E'chu Street(稻城县俄初街)
• Yanzang Yak Meat(盐藏牦牛肉)
  Add: Wabo Street, Daocheng County(稻城县波瓦街)
• Cunjia Yading Silver(寸家亚丁银坊)
  Add: E'chu Street(稻城县俄初街)
• Tibetan Boutique(西藏精品店)
  Add: Near Jinma Avenue West Road, Sertar(色达金马大道西路附近)
• Tie Jiang Pu(铁匠铺)
  Add: Northeast intersection of Daocheng County(稻城县城十字路口东北)
• Brother Zhang and Sister Li Yak Meat(张大哥李大姐牦牛肉)
  Add: Kangding Commercial Street(康定县步行街内)
  Tel: 0836-2824507
• Kangba Ethnic Leather Shoes(康巴民族皮鞋)
  Add: Intersection of East Street and Xinshiqian street in Kangding(康定东大街与新市前街交叉路口)
  Tel: 15884047752
• Kingdom of Wild Mushrooms(野生菌王国)
  Add: Gongga street, Daocheng County(稻城县贡嘎街)

Supermarkets in Garze

• Legou Supermarket(乐购超市)
  Add: Near No. 30, Sanchahe North Road, Danba County(丹巴县三岔河北路30附近)
  Tel: 0836-3527883
• Hongyan Supermarket(红艳超市)
  Add: Love song mall, Lucheng Town, Kangding(康定炉城镇情歌商城)
  
• Lufeng Supermarket(泸沣连锁超市)
  Add: No. 1, Zunyi Road (Ludingqiao Square)遵义路1号（泸定桥广场）
• Dehui Supermarket(德惠超市)
  Add: No. 198, East Street, Kangding(康定东大街198号)
  Tel: 0836-2837858
• Jianhua Supermarket(建华超市)
  Add: Daocheng County, 216 provincial road, 50 meters south(稻城县216省道南50米)
• Jiajiale Supermarket(佳佳乐超市)
  Add: No. 16, Tuanjie North Street, Sertar County(色达县团结北街16号)
  Tel: 0836-8522665