Uyghur Restaurant

Our stomachs and taste buds have been extremely pleased for our first three weeks in Changsha. However, much to our dismay, both of our cameras remained broken due to previous unfortunate incidents, and we have not been able to blog. But September rolled along and I finally bought a camera I'd been meaning to buy for a long, long time. So here is an inaugural post of a Uyghur restaurant about five minutes away from Yali Middle School. This place is one of Heyman's favorites, and is quickly becoming one of ours too.

kao bao zi - roasted dumplings, also known as "the best things in the world" by Heyman. Toasted/baked, and filled with lamb meat, vermicelli. They are even tastier because they are limited, and are not always available since the restaurant only makes a certain number per day.


a famous chinese dish called liang pianr. wide, clear cold noodles with spongey tofu. sauce is spicy, with a seemingly Xinjiang/Hunan edge to it.

Fat, juicy lamb meat on a stick known as yang rou chuanr. A classic Uyghur snack, often eaten with big pieces of bread.

Broccoli in garlic and spicy sauce.

Fried potato pieces that crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. Sprinkled with spices.