Guests must eat everything set before them lest they seem impolite. They must also share the game from the hunt as if they belonged to the family. When the Lhoba hunt, it is a communal effort and they share the game equally. They use a bow and arrows that are poisonous. The value placed on the bow and arrow is so high, that to congratulate someone on the birth of a child, a bow and arrow is given.
Boys begin learning to shoot at age seven or eight.
Their food consists of roasted or dried meat, buckwheat cakes, dumplings of maize or millet flour, rice or buckwheat and zhamba, potatoes. They are heavy drinkers of corn liquor and buttered tea. The Xudulong Festival, a harvest festival, is celebrated by dressing up, dancing, listening to a sorcerer lecture and feasting off dried or broiled meat, cheese and buckwheat cakes. During the singing and dancing, they pray for the next harvest to be a good one. According to government sources, life is better for the Lhoba since Liberation.