Ku Er Gan

The restaurant is quite near International Grand Bazaar. Most dishes there are made of fresh mutton and beef, tasted very nice. The restaurant is decorated with typical folk style, and the considerate servers there wear folk style clothing made out of silk. Yoghourt and grenadine juice are very delicious and popular. Roast meat, rice eaten by hands ( the rice is cooked with carrots, fresh mutton, onions and mutton oil), roast stuffed buns are several kinds of recommended food.

Chinese name: 库尔感 Ku Er Gan /koo ker gan/

Average price per person: 47 yuan

Address: 489 Heping South Road, Tianshan District

Tel: 0991-8558811

 

Mi La Ji

The restaurant looks like a cafe in a European small town, being decorated in gorgeous Turkish style. The host returns to Urumqi from Turkey, hence the restaurant serves various kinds of local food and Turkish style steak and snacks. Many art wares and national musical instruments collected by the host are shown inside the cabinet. Roast stuffed buns, rice eaten by hands (the rice is cooked with carrots, fresh mutton, onions and mutton oil), grenadine juice, Huandi porridge, noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter, etc, mutton chops, yoghourt, roast meat and camel milk are several kinds of popular food.

Chinese name: 米拉吉 Mi La Ji /mee lah jee/

Average price per person: 72 yuan

Address: the Office of the Eight Route Army, Yan'an Road, Tianshan District

Tel: 0991-2885522

 

May Flower

The dinning environment is designed with unique folk style, being magnificent. It mainly serves pure Xinjiang style food (a kind of Muslim food). There are performances of dances and singings during night time. Dinners can enjoy the delicious food and splendid performances at the same time. Rice eaten by hands tastes sweet and salted without any confliction. Roast meat is tender but never greasy. Yoghourt tastes sweet and sour, being added with some sugar. Other kinds of recommended food are grenadine juice, mutton shashliks and soup cooked with wild pigeon.

Chinese name: 五月花 Wuyue Hua /woo-youair hwah/

Average price per person: 40 yuan

Address: Near Huanghe Road, 37 Hetian Street, Shyibake District

Tel: 0991-8955555

 

May Flower Flagship Restaurant

Average price per person: 59 yuan

Address: Floor 2, Urban Construction Mansion, Nanhu South Road, Shuimo Gou District

Tel: 0991-4881599, 4881699

 

Xinjiang No.1 Plate

The restaurant mainly serves Xinjiang style food (a kind of Muslim food), with the signature dish is Da Pan Chicken (braised chicken with potato and green pepper). If you want to relish a pure Da Pan Chicken, Xinjiang No.1 Plate should the first recommended restaurant. The Da Pan Chicken there served in a full weight, with tender chicken meat, glutinous potato and crisp green pepper. Qiang Lian Bai (fried cabbage) and yoghurt are very popular. Even though the dinning environment and the service are not very good, it never influences the popularity in Urumqi.

Chinese name: 新疆第一盘 Xinjiang Diyi Pan /xin-jyung dee-yee pan/

Average price per person: 38 yuan

Address: 80 Nanhu North Road, Shuimogou District 

Tel: 0991-4619777 Xinjiang

 

No.1 Plate Flagship Restaurant

Average price per person: 38 yuan

Address: 555 Tiyu Guan Road, Tianshan District 

Tel: 0991-8834777, 8844777