Are there any good scenic spots and food recommendations for Xinjiang tourism?

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Ji Xianlin, a famous scholar, thinks that "the only place where the four major cultural systems meet in the world is Xinjiang in China". Xinjiang is located in the border of the motherland, and its unique geographical and climatic environment and rich ethnic customs determine its unique charm of food culture.

1 Xinjiang special noodles

Pasta is the main staple food in Xinjiang. The most commonly eaten pasta is called "Nan", which is a kind of cake made by baking flour mixed with fermented flour, light salt water and flour. When making, countless small holes are punched in the thin part of the bottom of the bowl, which is pasted on the wall of the bowl and stewed, showing apricot yellow, thick around and thin in the middle. There are also sesame, meat, oil, sliced, Wo Wo, Hillman and other varieties. This kind of naan is not only delicious and chewy, but also rich in nutrition with ghee, milk and eggs.

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Lunan

Xinjiang wheat has a long growth cycle and good flour bones and muscles, which is suitable for making "braces" and is a delicious food loved by people of all ethnic groups and tourists in Xinjiang. When kneading dough, put a little salt in the water. It tastes slightly salty and the dough is slightly soft. You must knead it thoroughly, usually for half an hour. When pulling, just gently pinch the ends, lengthen them a little, and then pull them back. 30 cm long medicine should be pulled to more than 2 meters long, as thin as vermicelli, and put into a boiling pot. When the water boils, you can take it out. Eating "noodles" is also particular. Drink the original soup with noodles under the bowl, otherwise it will not be easy to digest.

Hand Lamian Noodles

Hand pilaf

Xinjiang is rich in pasta. Besides naan and spicy strips, jiaozi, wonton, beef noodles, fried noodles, baked buns, tissue paper bags, oil towers, sesame oil and Ququer are all popular pasta in Xinjiang.

Kao steamed bun

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2 Xinjiang beef and mutton

Princess Wusun, who was married from the Han Dynasty to Wusun State (now Yili) two thousand years ago, wrote in a poem: "Eat meat and eat milk." Xinjiang is a place where many ethnic groups live together, especially those who believe in Islam are widely distributed, and most of the food is halal, among which Urumqi is known as "the capital of halal food in China". Therefore, there are many delicious foods that are mainly beef and mutton, such as roast whole sheep, mutton skewers, mutton, whole sheep mats, dry-fried lamb chops, soft-fried liver-spine skewers, flaming mountain fans, tomato sauce mutton cakes, mutton cups, ternary roasted cow heads and so on.

Dry fried lamb chops

Lamb Kebabs

With the improvement of material living standard and people's diet, the content of Muslim food in Xinjiang has also undergone great changes. Chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, etc. It has also begun to enter the dining table of the Muslim people in Xinjiang. Muslim dining table combined with Chinese food and other ethnic meals to learn a variety of cooking, such as bergamot sand, squid rolls stuffed with sauce, treasure chest, grape shrimp, orchid fish belly, pear boat shrimp and other new dishes.

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Big-plate chicken

3 Xinjiang special snacks

After the reform and opening up, the rapid development of market economy and the bumper harvest of agriculture have fully restored Xinjiang snacks, constantly enriched and innovated on the original basis, and introduced a wide range of varieties with novel styles. Such as rice sausage, face lung, venetian blinds, dough twists, osmanthus jiaozi, yogurt, mare's milk, roll-pointed milk, crisp soybeans, oil soybeans, sugar soybeans, Regan Noodles spiced peanuts, wet peanuts, fragrant almonds, fragrant melon seeds, beer nests, Gowasu, snowflakes, iced milk and so on. There are countless snacks in Xinjiang. With the development of tourism in Xinjiang, Western-style fast food such as Baifu Hamburg, KFC and Dicos have come in droves, and innovative snacks have also developed rapidly.

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Sanbaorou

4 Xinjiang fruit

Xinjiang is known as the "hometown of melons and fruits", and the quantity and quality of melons and fruits are among the best in China and even in Asia. "Grape cantaloupe in Turpan; Everyone praises the pomegranate in Yecheng; Korla fragrant pear ranks first in the world; Ili apple top; Artux's figs are very famous; Watermelons in the field are sweet and sandy; Kashi cherry Pearl Buck; Jiashi melon loves sweets; Hotan thin-skinned walnuts need not be knocked; Kuqa white apricot has the best taste; There are melons and fruits all year round; I don't want to go home when I come to Xinjiang. "

Xinjiang dried fruit is also very famous. For example, dried apricots, sour plums, red dates and raisins are all famous dried fruits in Xinjiang, which are not only rich in nutrition, but also have dual health care effects. It has become a snack food that compatriots of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang often eat in their daily lives, and it is also a necessary tourist food for tourists.

Turpan grape

Xinjiang Hami melon

Refer to Zhang Yang. Research on the Development of Food Tourism in Xinjiang

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