About this place

The imaginatively named Xinjiang Restaurant is the best eatery on a strip of restaurants that serve the Uighur minority cuisine. The Uighurs, one of China's 56 recognized minorities, hail from the northwestern region of China formerly known as Turkestan. It is also the official restaurant of the Xinjiang Uighur Minority Special Autonomous Region Government’s representative office in Shenzhen, so it must be good.

Uighur cuisine is similar to that found in Central Asian countries and relies heavily on roast mutton, noodles, naan bread and chili. Food is prepared and cooked according to Islamic custom. The Xinjiang Restaurant is as good an example of it as you will find this far from Urumqi. The food they serve is authentic, typical and tastes even better washed down with Xinjiang black beer. A meal for two will cost about RMB70 - 120. The menu is in Chinese but also has pictures.

The Xinjiang Restaurant is at the end of a strip of restaurants on Chunfeng Road, just east of the intersection with Wenjin Road. Bus nos. 5 and 14 stop near here and a taxi from the Luo Hu border crossing will cost about RMB15.