I am the kind of person with limited capabilities and ambitions. If only I have some money to make my ends meet, I would be happy enough. Take eating for example, you may have a dinner costing thousands of RMB, which can be called enjoyment, but you may also spend some three or four Yuan to make it to your heart’s content..

Xinjiang is a hybrid populated area, with people coming from everywhere in China. You randomly pick up a youngster in the street, ask him about his ancestors, and you wouldn’t be surprised to find that most of them are not native Xinjiang people. Here it is common to hear people with a mixed accent.

The surface area of Xinjiang is as large as the whole Europe, but there are only over twenty million population living here. According to its geographic position, Xinjiang can be divided into two parts, namely, the south Xinjiang and the north Xinjiang, with the famous Mountanin Tian range in the middle as a marker. The south Xinjiang has a dry weather and severely lacks water, so the land there are lean and unproductive. The major people there are the Weiwur minority. On contrast, the north Xinjiang has a wet weather and ample water resources, plus its excellent natural conditions, all of which make it a better place for settlement. So there are more peoples there, including Han majority, and some other minorities peoples like Weiwur, Hasake, Hui, Mongolian etc. The Western Regions culture, as we usually mentioned, is mainly created by the Weiwur minority, naturally the south Xinjiang best represents the Western Regions culture.

The Han majority people is densely populated in two areas, that is, the city and the corps. Because the people there are from all over China, the flavors are much different. Famous dishes from both the south and north area, refection across the whole China, all have their followers. The Han majority people have a largest proportion, naturally people would think their flavors would be the mainstream. However, it is not the case. Refection foods of Weiwur minority people are particularly popular and have dominating trend. The Han majolrity people is rich in diet culture. Their foods include things that fly in the sky, swim in the water and run on the earth. They make best use of them with excelling abilities, which is often acclaimed as the peak of perfection. While the Weiwur minority people’s foods are not that gaudy. Just like its people, always with a straight manner, will directly target your key part and take you down along with all the others, no matter you are from Shandong province or North East area.

But Xinjiang based Weiwur minority people are also particular with many foods. For example, they don’t eat pork, donkey meat, dog meat and any meat that keeps its blood on. Many inlanders maybe don’t eat mutton in their hometown, but after they come to Xinjiang, they would soon be attracted by Xinjiang’s mutton. It’s very simple, the mutton here is very tasteful.

A particular land produces specific things and people. Due to its geographic position, climate and environment, Xinjiang is suitable to produce high quality mutton. Just take a look at the Xinjiang’s roast meat kebab, with no rivals across China, but it still matters where you would enjoy it. If you eat it in any place in the inland area, you wouldn’t taste out a Xinjiang flvor even if it is Xinjiang produced mutton. This is not difficult to understand that enjoying some flavors also needs an environment, an ambience, only by this, can you enjoy it with a feeing, which is the highest level of eating.

In Xinjiang’s most streets and alleys, you will notice people roasting mutton cubes on a kebab. Here I slightly list some Xinjiang’s local refection as follows: scratched rice, braised noodles, mixed noodles, fried noodles, roast mutton meat kebab, roast baozi, persimmon, soup with minced meat and other parts, smoked horse intestines etc. This is just listed in a sort. There would be dozens of kinds with a detailed statistics and every kind would further derive several sorts. Take scratched rice for example, it can be further sub-divided into mutton scratched rice, chicken scratched rice, airing meat scratched rice, minced meat scratched rice, raisin scratched meat, dried apricot scratched rice and papaya scratched rice, the latter two of which I have already enjoyed when I once came to Xinjiang. It’s really good tasting with a transcendental faint scent.