Xinjiang Food and Restaurants

Xijiang Cuisine(Sinkiang cuisine)

Xijiang cuisine: The major nationality in Xinjiang is Uygur who believes in Islamism. So their food habit is exactly the same as Islamites. The regular foods have mutton, beef, chicken, eggs and fish, especially mutton (The Islamic rules on forbidden foods and drink, such as pork and wine, are not considered akin to the pious acts of fasting or abstinence, but rather are part of the regular observance of taboos and are therefore beyond the scope of this entry.) ; the daily drinks mainly are cow milk, ewe milk, yogurt, and milk cream; the vegetables are yellow radish, onion, garlic, pumping, radish, tomato, eggplant, chili, coriander, ageratum, green bean and potato, etc.. The breakfast will have melons and fruits’ jams, milk tea and so on; the lunch will serve the main courses flour-made food with beef and mutton; the dinner will be Nang (a Uygur bread), tea or noodles and so forth. The most regular foods are Nang, fried rice with mutton, stuffed buns and noodles. Xinjiang is rich in the sheep, and it is the favorite food, so shashlik becomes a major dish and a custom in Uygur’s life. The other famous and delicious food is hand picked fried rice. The traditional custom is: the guests sit around a table, and then the host holds a plate and a pot at each hand to let the guests clean their hands one by one and give them the towels to dry their hands. After this, the host will serve the fried rice, and the guests have the rice directly with their hands. The shashlik and hand picked fried rice are the must-try dishes when traveling to Xinjiang for their unique features and flavors.

Representative dishes: Hand Picked Fried Fice (pinyin: shǒu zhuā fàn); Shashlik(pinying: yáng ròu chuàn);

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