As long as you don't come from Inner Mongolia, the basic feeling of coming to Urumqi is that the diet is full of a lot of beef and mutton. Sauté ed chicken, all kinds of kebabs and spicy chicken exist in life like kung pao chicken and shredded pork with fish flavor.
At the same time, if the subject will find that the staple food here is not rice and noodles, but pulling strips and grabbing rice. To put it bluntly, noodles are covered with noodles, but if the landlord comes from Shanxi, he will find that the taste of noodles here is different from that of Shanxi noodles and Shaanxi noodles, and the noodles are thick. The main noodles of noodles include: chili pepper meat, eggplant meat, mushroom meat and spicy eggs (scrambled eggs with tomatoes).
Onions are not called onions, they are called leather teeth.
Red pepper is not called red pepper, it is called rolling spicy skin.
Tiger food is not called tiger food, but skin spicy red.
Green peppers can be fried with eggplant, which is called Tiger Skin chili pepper Roasted Eggplant.
Yogurt and milk tea in many restaurants are delicious.
There are many places to eat cold noodles, cold rice noodles and bean jelly, which is called Sanliang for short.
Naan is very different from Naan. Although we can't eat it, there is no one at the door of some Naan shops, and there are long queues in some Naan shops.
There is a dish that you rarely eat in Xinjiang restaurants in the mainland, but it is almost available in any Xinjiang restaurant. It is called pepper chicken.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are not called scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but spicy eggs with peppers added.
There are several grades of pilaf: 15 yuan, 20 yuan, 30 yuan, 50 yuan and so on. Depending on the amount of meat, generally a big boy eats 20-25 yuan's, which is quite enough, two or three pieces of lamb chops. Girls 15 yuan is enough. 50 yuan's luxury version of pilaf has always existed as a god to me, but I have never seen it before.
The most important thing is that the beef and mutton here has no smell, which is very different from the mutton in the south (because it is a sheep, not a goat).
Hand-grabbed meat, Naokeng meat, saute spicy chicken, large lamb tripe, large fish, roast leg of lamb, braised wild goose and Ningbo shrimp tail are all daily necessities in restaurants, just like eating Maoxuewang of Sichuan cuisine and boiled beef.
"Ningbo Shrimp Tail" is an authentic xinjiang cuisine, that is, the tail of spicy fried crayfish. I have never seen it in Ningbo.
There are also various kinds of mutton and beef practices, which I can't remember, and it's hard to count. Every restaurant is different.
Also, "Dapan" is just a prefix word, which can be derived from Dapan Chicken, Dapan Fish, Dapan Mutton, Dapan Mutton Belly and Dapan XX. ...
At the same time, the subject will find several ingredients and eating methods that are still rare in the coastal areas (or only seen in authentic Xinjiang restaurants):
There is a kind of mushroom called Pleurotus ferulae. Fleshy, a little hard, cut into pieces and stir-fry the meat.
There is also a kind of mushroom called Chamagu.
When you come here, you will know that noodles can change so many names according to different shapes and volumes: Tintin, Stripping, Sanliang, Pulling Fish roe, and Pulling Film. You will say, isn't it all noodles? People in Xinjiang will feel different.
Everywhere in the street are: XX beef noodles and various Hui and Uygur barbecue stalls.
XX beef noodles exist here just like Chengdu snacks in the north or Shaxian snacks in the south. Have some breakfast, have a bowl of beef noodles, and have a bowl of beef noodles in the evening if you are hungry. Maybe the northwest is basically like this. Of course, Urumqi's diet is more diverse than other cities in Xinjiang, and you can eat steamed buns, wonton and so on.
Barbecue stalls everywhere, a bit like those in Guangdong, will put meat from various parts of cattle and sheep, as well as vegetables, not to mention barbecue. Every other city has many Uighur barbecue uncles.
There are many brands of milk, goat's milk and camel milk that I have never heard of (yes, yes, and there are specialty stores that sell them at exorbitant prices).
There are many fruits, such as cantaloupe, Aksu apple and Korla pear, which everyone knows.
Besides xinjiang cuisine, there are a little more dishes in Urumqi than in other places. You can find Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shandong cuisine, private cuisine and Korean barbecue. There are very few Japanese dishes (Xinjiang people don't like too light taste), and there seems to be a banana leaf, and there seems to be a banana leaf in Shihezi. There are few authentic western restaurants.
There is no 7- 1 1, McDonald's (yes, there is only KFC and a local Baifu, but there is no McDonald's), there is no Starbucks, there is no ikea, and there are very few people who sell luxury goods. It is almost a beautiful family, which can be regarded as a pure land where international consumer brands invade less.
There is a "Ilite" in Xinjiang when drinking. The small blue bottle is the best, so you must try it. Other liquor and beer are also drunk a lot, and Wusu is the main beer.
When you come to Xinjiang, you must go to Erdaoqiao and Helbage to experience the Uighur dining.
Muslim restaurants are relatively clean. I've seen them go to church at 67 pm and take a carpet to chant Buddhist scripture.
Then it comes to taboos: eating pork here can't be called pork, but it should be called "big meat". There are stalls selling pork in the street, and the sign hanging says "big meat".
When I first came to Xinjiang, I found it most strange that the packaging of coke, Sprite, iced black tea, iced green tea and various snacks here is bilingual in Uygur and Chinese!