More Lhasa residents shopping online for New Year

"I prefer to buy flowers, books and children's clothes online," she said, but admitted that the shipping costs can sometimes be as much as the cost of the item themselves.

"I hope it will go down some day," she added.

Apart from shopping online, residents of Lhasa can also choose offline stores around the city where most of the traditional products for the holidays are available, such as fried pastries, Tibetan robes, painted ears of barley or wheat, barley seedlings in vases and five-colored prayer flags.