Cosmopolitan Roots: The Silk Road Melting Pot Born along the ancient Northern Silk Road corridors where Han Chinese, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Hui culinary traditions collided, Da Pan Ji (大盘鸡, „Big Plate Chicken“) embodies gastronomic globalization centuries before the term existed. Its 1980s genesis in Shawan County’s truck-stop kitchens speaks to necessity: Xinjiang’s long-haul drivers needed hearty, scalable meals that could withstand […]
Täglicher Archiv: Xinjiang
As we all know, Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an important central city in Northwest China and an international trade center for Central Asia and West Asia. Urumqi is a Mongolian phonetic translation, meaning „graceful pasture“. It was originally a nomadic area of the Heshuote Ministry of Western Mongolia. In the […]
China has a territorial area of about 9.6 million square kilometers (excluding territorial sea), and is the third largest country on the earth after Russia and Canada. China’s version looks like a cock, and the plump cocktail is Xinjiang. As the saying goes, you are not feeling the vastness and breadth of the motherland without […]