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Posted on: Xinjiang Delicacies

@shenyajin: I've never actually seen anybody use their hands to eat 手抓饭, it was always spoons when I was around. Then again I spent 95 percent of the time in Urumqi, maybe in southern Xinjiang customs are different...

Posted on: Xinjiang Delicacies

You forgot one of the best Xinjiang dishes (I lived there for 19 months and tried a lot of the food, and I always came back to this one):

拌面 bànmiàn ( in uyghur: "lachman")
Cold noodles with lamb and peppers in a tomato sauce (not all that different from 丁丁炒面, but usually somewhat less greasy)

Another popular dish with the locals in Xinjiang:

抓饭 zhuāfàn (or in uyghur: "polo")

Rice and carrots fried in lamb's fat and usually with a big chunk of fatty mutton on top.

@shenyajin: in my experience, if you buy 馕 hot from the oven it has a wonderful texture (better than much Western-style bread) and is very easy to chew, but after a few hours it is exactly as you describe it. After a few days, it is so hard that you can use it as a hammer.