What specialty foods should you eat in Urumqi?
Xinjiang Food Universe Center! Must-eat: Big Plate Chicken + Belt Noodles (Xinjiang's No.1 dish), grilled lamb skewers (red willow skewers are more fragrant than iron skewers), hand-grabbed rice (lamb leg hand-grabbed rice is absolutely superb), baked samsa/thin-skinned buns, naan (eat it hot fresh out of the oven!), stir-fried rice noodles (the lifeblood of Xinjiang girls — "mildly spicy" is a lie — spicy enough to make you question existence), mixed noodles/latiaozi, yogurt + honey. Xinjiang fruits: Hami melon/grapes/Korla pears/pomegranates/figs — sweet to the extreme. Spice level: stir-fried rice noodles are extra spicy! Everything else is not spicy.