The Silk Road Tsongkha Hotel provides a wide variety of hotel facilities for you to enjoy a truly relaxing and memorable stay at the hotel. There are Lounge Cafe, Tibetan Restaurant, Muslim Restaurant and Chinese Restaurant, Meeting and Conferences Room. We also provide cultural tourists and Buddhist devotees with a tranquil atmosphere to refresh the mind and spirit. Facilities include a Meditation Room, Praying Chamber and a Study Room. Here you can immerse yourself in the rich Tibetan culture and have your spirits enriched by religious education.

Dining

• Lounge Cafe
  Different local drinks and Buddhist cakes are served to make you feel the distinctive flavours of Tibetan. Western coffee and tea with milk are also served here at the Lounge Cafe.
  
  
• Tibetan Restaurant
  Located on the ground floor, it serves you the finest flavours of Tibetan cuisine such as sausages, barley wine, butter oil tea, beef and mutton eaten with the hands, yak tongue, steamed buns, zanba made from highland barley, pastries, sweet tea, xiapuqing, and minced mutton and beef. The staple Tibetan food includes roasted highland barley flour, wheat flour, meat, or red food, and milk, or white food. The principle in summer is the white food, while that in winter is the red food. Local flavours in the pastoral areas are mutton sausage, and dried beef. The flavour of the Tibetan food is fresh, light, and tender. Salt, onion, and garlic are the main ingredients.
  
  
• Muslim Restaurant
  Located on the ground floor featuring superb flavours of Islamic cuisine such as Roast Meat, fish & Chicken, and Stewed Mutton Cubes. Roast mutton is as famous as roast duck in Beijing and crispy suckling pig in Guangzhou. A two-year-old sheep is slaughtered and skinned, daubed with salt inside and outside, and then coated with a mixture of eggs, chopped ginger and scallions, and pepper. The sheep is put into a stove to roast for about an hour until it turns golden brown. Stewed Mutton Cubes prepared especially for festivals. Cut mutton into cubes of 500 grams apiece and boil them in a big pot. When they are half done, remove the foam; and when they are 80 percent done, add onions, pepper, ginger slices, carrots, turnips and tomatoes. Then remove and place on a big plate. Put some salt in the stock and remove to a bowl. Before eating the mutton, dip it in the stock.
  
  
• Chinese (Han) Restaurant
  Enjoy one of the finest restaurants in Xining, the Chinese (Han) Restaurant, which serves the best of traditional Chinese cuisine. Its Cantonese dishes have long been famed for bringing a touch of southern culture to the wild Northwest.
  

Spiritual Pleasure

• Meditation Room
  It provides a place for you to have a simple and direct practice-the moment-to-moment observation of the mind/body process through calm and focused awareness. Learning to observe experiences from a place of stillness enables one to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Seeing life as a constantly changing process, one begins to accept pleasure and pain, fear and joy, and all aspects of life with increasing equanimity and balance. As insight deepens, wisdom and compassion arise. Insight meditation is a way of seeing clearly the totality of one's being and experience. Growth in clarity brings about penetrating insight into the true nature of our experience and increases peace in our daily lives.
  
  
• Praying Chamber
  A tranquil place for you to explore the Yellow Sect of Lamaism which was founded by Tsongkhapa. There are collections of Buddhist scriptures for you to have an insight into the historic religion.
  
  
• Study Room
  It is not only a venue for you to meet people from different cultures, but also an ideal place for you to learn about the history and culture of Qinghai.
  

Business Centre

Conveniently located on the ground floor of the hotel, the Business Center provides you all the necessary services such as photocopying, facsimile and secretarial services.

Meeting and Conference

The hotel provides perfect venues and comprehensive meeting and conference facilities for your different scale of gathering, meeting, conventions and social functions. The main Dining Hall is available for seating capacity of 300. The Grand Hall on the first floor is an ideal venue for formal conferences and meeting of up to 300 people.

A range of standard meeting packages is available to meet your company's needs. Additionally, we can tailor our meeting packages to suit your individual requirements. The function rooms allow you to accommodate any request, from a simple seminar to a full-scale banquet. Please contact webmaster@the-silk-road.com for detailed information.