Tag Archives: food

Xinjiang recipes series

There’s another regularly updated Xinjiang blog out on the block and that’s This is Xinjiang. It’s mostly a record of the personal experiences of an academic teaching English at a university, and among the entertaining [...]

Ani Muqin Cai Sibe Restaurant, Ürümchi

The weather is warming all across Xinjiang, and it’s time for tourists of every kind to start exploring this beautiful land. Since Ürümchi gets such a bad reputation from most of the popular guidebooks out [...]

Kebabs will not give you AIDS. Maybe. Yargh!

So you may have heard through your friendly telecommunications company health announcement text message service that kebabs might give you AIDS. We heard it first at Liuzhou Laowai. The original text message, when translated to [...]

Xinjiang Economic News Roundup for 18-24 March 2008

In today’s economic news: Ürümchi takes measure to control inflation. Aid continues to pour in for areas affected by extreme cold. The City of Ürümchi is taking more concrete measures to control infla—I mean rising [...]

Society News Roundup: 11-17 March 2008

This is The New Dominion’s Society News Roundup for 11-17 March 2008. If you live in Ürümchi, you’ll have noticed that North Youhao Lu (友好北路) is being torn to pieces. The street, lined with two [...]

Arts & Entertainment News Roundup – 4-12 March 2008

This is The New Dominion’s Arts & Entertainment News Roundup for 4-12 March 2008! We hope that this regular feature will help the world come to realize the richness of the arts in Xinjiang and [...]