1. Loulan Mikao
This store can satisfy all your yearning for Xinjiang cuisine! Their taste is authentic, the decoration is full of national characteristics, and the cost performance is very high, so friends from other places are often invited to taste delicious food here. There are two branches in Urumqi, one is Qidaowan Store, and the other is Yingbin Road Store, both of which have enough parking spaces at the door. The waiter is dressed in traditional Uygur costumes and greets you with a big smile. They are warm and friendly, and they know everything on the menu like the back of their hand. If you are not familiar with xinjiang cuisine, they will patiently recommend signature dishes and special dishes to you to ensure that you can taste the most authentic delicious food.
The layout of this shop is very ethnic, from the fa? ade, doors and windows, walls, floors to roofs, to all kinds of decorations, all of which are designed with care. Colorful color combinations and regular patterns are impressive. The most special thing is that a mini version of Loulan site is also designed above the kitchen, which makes the diners feel as if they are in the ancient city of Loulan and have a feeling of dreaming back to Loulan.
There are various private rooms on the second floor to meet the banquet needs. There are often regular performances on the first floor. When the music starts, dancers wear traditional costumes and dance in Xinjiang, shuttling between the dining tables, creating a warm atmosphere. This kind of scene makes people stop eating chopsticks and pick up their mobile phones to record videos as a souvenir.
Recommend several special dishes:
Small barbecue: it is Xinjiang mutton kebab, with fresh and tender meat, fat and thin, and sufficient weight;
Baked steamed stuffed bun: the skin of steamed stuffed bun is thin and crisp, and the meat stuffing is rich. When you bite it, you find that the mutton powder inside is juicy and the mouth is full of oil.
Shelf meat: that is, the meat of sheep's spine is baked on the shelf, and there is quite a lot of meat;
2. Is the pomegranate red? Jiang zi Jiang Wei
Located on the second floor of Hongfu Hotel, Wuyi Road 160, Urumqi. The waiting time of this restaurant is about half an hour, which is located on the second floor of the hotel. Here are mainly local people who come to eat. The decoration of the restaurant is very characteristic of Xinjiang, surrounded by groups of Xinjiang people who eat. The whole restaurant exudes a strong regional cultural atmosphere, while the restaurant plays soft Xinjiang songs and plays live national music at certain times. The strings and drums of traditional musical instruments reverberate in the dining room, adding a mysterious and touching mood to the dining environment. You will also enjoy the wonderful performances of Uygur dancers and bring you an audio-visual feast.
Their original pot hand-grabbed rice is my personal favorite dish. Compared with the big pot of pilaf, the small pot is more oily and full, and the meat is very rich and delicious. It can be said that it is the most amazing dish in the whole table, which exceeds my expectation.
Another recommended dish is the pigeon noodles that won the gold medal. The portion of this dish is quite sufficient. However, be careful if you don't eat spicy food, because the overall taste is spicy. The pigeon meat inside is very tender, the taste of hot sauce is very rich, and the hand-rolled rough noodles have a strong taste. There are also fried quail eggs, which add a special flavor to this dish.
3. Emerald
Founded in 1996, it has been operating for nearly 30 years. This shop has three floors, which is different from ordinary noodle mixing and barbecue shops. As soon as you step into the door, you can feel the clean and refreshing environment created by blue and white beams, dark green dining chairs and white gauze curtains. There are a variety of choices on the menu, and you can try all kinds of mouth-watering food. Imagine that fresh mutton kebabs are placed on a charcoal grill and baked with a golden crispy appearance and a juicy inside. When they are brought to you, the aroma on the kebabs comes to your nose and awakens your taste buds. In addition, there is hand-grabbed rice. The rice is covered with crispy shredded carrots, fragrant mutton and various spices, and every bite makes you taste the unique delicious food in Xinjiang.
The first is the steamed stuffed bun with pilaf, which contains vegetarian pilaf, four thin leather bags and refreshing side dishes. When eating, you should break the thin leather bags, then mix the meat stuffing with pilaf and have a side dish. The taste is refreshing and the price is 25 yuan.
Their family's meatball barbecue is also a classic, which is made by adding a lot of pepper to the crushed beef and wrapping it on the label, showing a delicious taste of nourishing oil. Although many people recommend it, I personally feel that the seasoning is too rich, which masks the original flavor of the meat. In contrast, I prefer the original kebabs, and the price is 8 yuan.