Women wear an apron outside the robe to protect them while laboring. They grow bananas, peppers, leeks and ginger and harvest rice and corn. For cooking, they use stone pots along with containers and utensils made from bamboo. Homes are also made of bamboo with straw roofs. They are two or three stories high with the second and third floors being used for livestock.
Houses face east in order to catch the rising sun for good luck.
Furniture is also made of bamboo. The Monba are a hospitable people who enjoy singing and dancing and offer beverages to their visitors. Most speak Tibetan and use the Tibetan script. They are also a monogamous people, free to choose their marital partners and have intermarried with Tibetans with whom they have always had close, political ties. In death, they practice sky, water and ground burial.