The Shoton festival or dubbed the "yogurt tasting festival" is well known as a mass gathering to taste yogurt,  watch Tibetan opera or take a stroll around parks in their leisure.

As statistics indicates, in spite of many yogurt brands on sale in the market, a  big proportion of Lhasa residents still prefer to buy glass-bottled yogurt made by local family workshops.

Drolma, the owner of a yogurt stand near the Xiasasu Road told the reporter, "All the yogurt on sale here is supplied by the local farmers from Dokde Township. They make the yogurt and I help them to sell it. We cooperate well with each other and I can sell about 80 bottles of yogurt every day."

As the Shoton Festival is drawying  near, Drolma has already contracted with two farmers for yogurt supplies and they are eying to earn more money from the increasing demand for the local yogurt.

Lhamo, a villager from Dokde Township, raised 4 yaks in all. "The yaks can not only help to plough land, but also can produce yak milk. In the off season, I will make yak milk into yogurt and then sell it. I can make an average of about 50 yuan each day," she said.

She generously share her own way of making yogurt with us: boil the fresh yak milk and then seal the bottles to ferment the milk in the evening; on the second day, there will be a thick layer of cream within each bottle.

Most guests would like to return to buy her yogurt because the cream tastes really fresh and authentic, Lhamo added.