Tibetan menu & Tibetan names

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

   Greetings from Lhasa...There was a 97-km drive from the airport, and my Tibetan tour guide pointed out NOTHING.  Clearly, she's practicing for a job in the Ukraine.

SICHUAN CUISINE (CONTINUED)--The hotel I stayed at last night in Sichuan (Minshan Hotel) was four stars, and had several restaurants.  But even those rarely had English language menus.  I didn't get to walk around the city much (I saw a "Top Flight Pizza" near the hotel), but my guess is that I wouldn't have found many English language menus of Sichuan dishes. Sorry...I asked the woman at the hotel's Business Centre what Sichuan dishes she liked best, and she said "hot pot."  Great--the one thing I couldn't get in Mongolia!

TIBETAN NAMES--I have the article with me now.  It's the CHINA DAILY, 17 September 2002, pg. 3:
_Names Proclaim Tibetan aims_
   _Reflecting a strong sense of contentment_
(It's by the Xinhua news service.  This newspaper doesn't seem to advertise a web site.  If you ANS-ers can't get the article somewhere on the web and want it, I'll start typing it--ed.)

TIBETAN MENU--I ate at the Lhasa Snowland Restaurant just now.  Great vegetable momos!  Cheap, too!  The restaurant has a nice menu of standard Chinese and Indian dishes, but I'll copy the 25 Tibetan dishes from the menu:

    TIBETAN DISHES
TIBETAN GYACOK (Hot Pot)(assorted meat, vegetables and sea food with bread, rice, etc.)
MOMO (steamed yak dumpling)
DEEP FRIED VEG. OR MEAT MOMO
CHEESE MOMO
POTATO MOMO (meat filling deep fried)
SHABALEB (flat meat dumplings fried)
KOTHAY MOMO (pan fried)
SHAPTRAK (yak fillet fried with rice or garlic bread)
LAMB RIBS (dry)
YAK POTATO STEW (with rice or tsampa (roasted barley))
LAMB STEW (with rice or tsampa)
VERMICELLI AND MUSHROOM (with rice or tsampa)
SOUP MOMO (yak meat)
BATHUK (pasta soup with meat, turnip)
TSAMTHUK (roasted barley soup)
GYATHUK (yak noodle soup)
VEGETABLE SOUP NOODLE
CHANG SOUP (sweet barley beer soup)
THENTHUK (flat pasta soup)
SHAM DAY (butter fried rice with raisin, yoghurt)
SWEET TIBETAN WILD GINSENG IN BUTTER (Droma Margu)
SPINACH SAUTE (with rice)
CHANG (barley beer in mug)
BUTTER TEA (small pot)