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Hand-made yellow noodles, (called serik ash) are piled high, ready for slicing at the food stalls outside Kashgar's Sunday Market. The dish on the left is a light mixture of noodles, herbs, and pickled vegetables served with a combination of vinegars and hot pepper sauce. Delicious, refreshing...different..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Suoman gush siz is one of the only phrases of Uighur we learned (we're afraid to admit) while in Kashgar, China. It's this delicious dish of vegetables, peppers and homemade laghman noodles. A very welcome vegetarian change after months of mutton on the road in Central Asia..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Pulled noodles, known in Xinjiang province (and Central Asia) as laghman noodles get thrown around, beaten and pulled to ensure the right consistency before being used in soups and suoman (noodle, vegetable and meat mixture)...Taken at the animal market in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Peppers of all varieties help to marinade and flavor a pot of noodles at the night market in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Although interesting to the eye, we were never tempted enough by these stacked sausages to actually taste them. ..Taken at the food stands outside the Sunday market in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
The feature that makes manti in Kashgar different from its dumpling siblings in Central Asia is the amount of pumpkin squash used in the filling. The mound of filling pictured here is from a restaurant named Intizar. Though we indicated that we only wanted the pumpkin filling and not the meat (mostly fat), we got mutton anyway.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
A vendor pulls and separates laghman noodles at the night market in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
This Uighur man give us the thumbs up for a plate of manti (meat-stuffed Turkic dumplings) at a street-side restaurant in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Waiting for freshly baked nan (Uighur flat bread baked in a tandoor-like clay oven) in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Stuffed with greens and a bit of meat, these delicious dumplings were a bargain - 3 for $0.10 - at Kashgar's night market..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Opke is an Uighur soup made with boiling goat heads (in the bucket)...After our goat experience in Kyrgyzstan, we stayed clear of this local specialty..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Somsas are mutton stuffed pastries baked in a clay tandoor-like oven. They look delicious coming out of the oven, but the fat content many times overtakes the meat content, making them challenging eats...Taken in Kashgar in China's western province of Xinjiang..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
