TIANSHANNET
May. 19, 2010 -- In Karamay, you can not only taste the different kinds of wheaten foods, but also can enjoy the delicious cuisines come from Sichuan, Shandong and other places，while the most popular foods there are the Muslim foods. Furthermore, many local ethnic foods are available almost everywhere, such as Xinjiang Mutton shashlik, Baopi Baozi, Liangpi, Shamusa and so on.
What are particularly worth mentioning about the local cuisines are Liangpi and Shamusa.
Every one there loves eating Liangpi. You can see the guests at every age eating in the restaurant happily. Shamusa also named baked Baozi, traditional food of Uyghur is well loved by Uyghur nationality. It is the ideal gift to entertain relatives and friends, and it is also used as the gift when holding wedding ceremonies and funerals.
Mixed Noodles
There are a wide variety of wheaten food in Xinjiang, such as, pancake, mixed noodles, Pulling stripe, etc.. Cut mutton, carrot, onion, tomato and eggplant into granules and then mix some of them with noodles according as each prefers. Or make soup using the materials referred to above, and then pour the soup on the noodles. The handmade noodles are flexile and rubbery. People can eat a plate of noodles unawares.
Oil Fried Wheaten Food
It is a kind of food that is eaten in festivals by some nationalities like Uygur nationality. Mix pepper water, boiled oil, egg white and flour up and then shape them into thin strips. Put them into the pan with oil to fry. Make them take on the shape of the semicircle. Until it's fried to get golden, take it out and put on the plate. It 's put in the shape of the multi-layer column. Its shape looks nice. It's golden and lustrous. It's crisp and tasty.
Ququ'er
It's a traditional local flavor food that is well liked by the Uygur people. Ququ'er is similar to the wonton of the Han Nationality. The cover of Ququ'er is thin and the filling is tender. It gives out the characteristic fragrance. The flavor has special feature. It’s very tasty and refreshing.
Edition HistoryEdit Karamayi Restaurants
In the last ten years, restaurant and food services in Karamay developed very quickly. Up to now, there are more than 1700 restaurants and over 10 star-rated hotels in the city. Foreign food enterprises, like KFC, also opened their chain shops in this Oil city.
The restaurants there not only offer the local special foods, but also offer delicious cuisines come from different places. What' s more, lots of restaurants launch the special foods innovated by themselves.
Furthermore, the restaurants build favorable service environment and repast environment to show their attentive design for customers. And also, they actively enhance the quality and etiquette of the waiters and waitresses.
Nowadays, the restaurants in Karamay have gained quite a good reputation in Xinjiang in respect of qualities, features, environments, varieties of the cuisines, and prices of foods.