Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): Xinjiang Cuisine (新疆美食)

2025年7月22日星期二

Xinjiang Cuisine (新疆美食)

Ms. Huang, Jerry Meng, Terence Lam, Florence Chan, Minda Chiang and I found a small group to visit Xinjiang from 10 to 19 July 2025. I summarized different Xinjiang Cuisine for sharing. In Day 1, we only had Airline meal. Day 1: 香港 - 烏魯木齊 (20250710)

Day 2: 天山天池 - S21沙漠公路 - 北屯 (20250711)

We had lunch in local restaurant like HK open-air food stall (大排檔).

We tasted Xinjiang lamb and local vegetables.

Naan (饢/燒餅) was tried.

We always eat grilled lamb kebabs.

We enjoyed our dinner in the restaurant near hotel.

Big Plate Chicken / Dapanji (大盤雞) is big and spicy.

Stir-fried vegetable and shredded potatoes

Day 3: 喀纳斯 - 禾木村 (20250712)

That night we arrived at Kansi Hemu Resort (禾木山莊) and had dinner inside the resort.

Hand-pulled lamb (手抓羊肉) here is better than Day 2.

Beans and porridge are good taste.

Lamb Dumplings are nice.

It is not a meat but mushroom.

Xinjiang Black Tofu (新疆黑豆腐) is very special.

Day 4: 禾木山莊 - 烏爾禾 (20250713)

We had lunch at the restaurant outside the yurt (蒙古包).

I took a photo of the food menu for reference.

We ordered Shredded Chicken (手撕雞).

This dish features beef with fried egg.

We ended up having dinner near the hotel. This meal was more expensive than the others, but at about 700 RMB for six people it was still cheap!

The waiter highly recommended us to taste roast leg of lamb (烤羊腿).

A small yellow fish we ordered.

We also ordered 1L local draft beer.

Day 5: 世界魔鬼城 - 雙河 (20250714)

We had lunch outside the Devil City.

It is our first time to eat a special fish named Chinese sturgeon (中華鱘).

The menu showed not expensive! Very good taste!

Since we eat too much lamb in previous days, we focused on vegetables.

Then we tried Xinjiang fruits included watermelon and cantaloupe.

The place named Melon Eating Commune (吃瓜公社).

Ms. Huang selected some Xinjiang Muskmelon (新疆香瓜).

Finally we had dinner at this very traditionally designed hotel.

We ordered fried leek dumpling (韭菜合子).

Fish head pancake is very good taste.

Soup is also good.

Day 6: 雙河 - 賽里木湖 (20250715)

In Sayram Lake (賽里木湖), we had fish lunch at a restaurant.

White fish, vegetable and noodle we ordered.

Steamed shark fin with vermicelli (粉絲蒸魚唇) is a specialty.

Another special dish is fish pizza!

And Fishcake! (魚糕)

The hotel we stayed in was called Saihu Impression Hotel. We had eaten too much Xinjiang lamb in the past few days, so we walked a short distance and found a Hunan restaurant (湘菜) and asked for a non-spicy dish.

We ordered fried beef ribs, tofu soup and Mutton pilaf (羊肉抓飯).

Day 7: 那拉提空中草原-那拉提鎮 (20250716)

We passed the Guozigou Bridge (果子溝大橋) and then we found a place for lunch. Where waiters were students from Kazakhs in China (中國哈薩克族). We eat the grilled lamb kebabs again.

The menu shows different food and the prices are very affordable.

We also tried the local beer.

Vegetable, Tofu and mushroom were ordered.

This is Xinjiang bread filled vegetable.

There is a very beautiful garden in the hotel and we had dinner near the BBQ garden.

We ordered mushroom, crayfish (小龍蝦), loofah soup and lamb dumplings.

The fried fish tasted good.

Day 8: 那拉提镇 - 精河 (20250717)

We had dinner in the Lucaogou (盧草溝).

The first dish is lamb offal (羊雜).

I like the Fried beans French fries (炸豆角及薯條)!

Mutton soup (羊肉湯) is also good.

We tried the tea beer which was very special!

At night, we arrived the Jinghe (精河). Terence, Florence and I had a late night snack including grilled lamb skewers, squid skewers, tofu skewers (烤羊肉串、魷魚串、豆腐串).

Day 9: 獨山子大峽谷 - 烏魯木齊 (20250718)

We arrived the DuShanZi Grand Canyon (獨山子大峽谷) and had quick lunch here.

Menu was showed but the price inside.

Each drink cost 30RMB.

Sour plum juice cost 15RMB and tasted good!

But this meal is not cheap (315RMB).

In the last night, we selected a special restaurant named “Afternoon Tea at Alerham” (阿勒爾罕的下午茶).

Menu showed many special food. Originally, we would like to order Roasted Lamb (烤全羊) but it is too big for only six people. (It could be for 10 to 15 people)