Camel milk latest entry in domestic dairy alternatives race

HOHHOT - If you're fed up with cow milk, goat milk or soy milk, try something new - camel milk, the latest milk alternative.

Before dawn, Sangdeg, 45, carries a flashlight in one hand, a bucket in the other, and walks into a camel pen in the desert of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

"Tujibuly," calls the camel farmer from Alxa Right Banner, a major farming base for Bactrian camels. He gently calls the name of a 9-year-old female Bactrian camel, a type of double-humped camel.