Some meals --mainly from the halal cafeterias at Xinjiang Normal University, June-July 2012. The majority of the muslim students are Uyghur, but other Xinjiang minorities include Tajik, Kazakh, Xibo, Mongol, Kyrgyz and Hui students.

1. Chinese language & culture in
Xinjiang 2012 – meals on campus
G P Witteveen
http://gpwitteveen.googlepages.com/fulbright2012

2. breakfasts

3. break-andwarm-milk_breakingfast

4. Boiled egg, meat mandu, prepared salads, bowl of thin rice gruel

5. Steamed cornmeal bun, meat mandu, fry bread, salads, boiled egg

6. Sweet bread, salads, mead mandu

7. Savory soup with egg, assorted breads

8. Weak tea, egg & scallion bread, mutton & onion-filled roll

9. Lunch & Supper

10. Banquet table with rotating glass center

11. Birthday cake package from student store, cardboard crown included.

12. dumpling-jyozu: dipping sauce + chili

13. Goulash: potato, pasta, capsicum. Watermelon slice.

14. Hotel restaurant 1

15. Hotel restaurant 2

16. Hotel restaurant 3

17. Hotel restaurant 4

18. Hotel restaurant 5

19. Hotel restaurant 6

20. Hotel restaurant 7

21. Hotel restaurant 8

22. Pasta & greens, capsicum

23. Muslim cafeteria selections with rice: chicken, tofu, eggplant

24. Variation on Lagmen noodle favorite among Uyghurs

25. Lentil, rice, mutton; skewered chicken breast

26. Impromptu breakfast bar al fresco (right)

27. Baking nang bread in adobe-lined, top-feeding oven

28. Saturday morning street market, north central Urumqi - June

29. Saturday morning street market: eggs, melons, onions

30. Melons at Saturday morning street market

31. Homemade tea mix: flower, dried fruit…

32. Supper set: tofu, chicken, potato entrees with rice.

33. Mutton ribs, seasoned potato and raw onion platter.

34. Cafeteria billboard for healthy eating; prep area behind the divider.

35. Evening streetfood near campus of Xinjian Normal University: meat, bread.

36. Tea, pasta with veg and capsicum, watermelon slice.

37. Fish far from the ocean at hotel restaurant in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.

38. Toothed river fish (?chordat) of Altai prefecture of Xinjiang province.

39. Muslim cafeteria entrees: tomato/egg, mutton, potato

40. Uyghur ice-cream (yoghurt?) – international grand bazaar, Urumqi.

41. Interior market for dried fruits: int’l grand bazaar, Urumqi

42. Lakhmen to pour atop the thick white, hand-pulled noodles

43. Lunch to go from campus cafeteria

44. Famous pilaf (‘pulla’) with air-dried mutton

45. Supper of beef dumplings

46. supper-nang topped with egg, scallion, ?cheese

47. “Truthiness” with family resemblance to the actual subject

48. Welcome dinner before the 11 other entrees arrived