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  • Recipes. 食谱.
    • Appetisers.凉菜
    • Soup.汤
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    • Tofu.豆腐
    • Seafood.海鲜
    • Poultry.家禽
    • Meat. 肉.
    • Rice.Noodles.Dumplings. 主食
    • Sweets.甜点
    • All Recipes . 菜谱
  • Glossary. 词汇表.
    • Ingredients.配料
    • Fruit.水果

Kashgar’s Taj Mahal . 香妃墓

June 29, 2018 by Karin Leave a Comment

The Apak Hoja Mazar is a beautiful tiled masoleum that houses the tombs of five generations of one family. Built in 1640 it is central to a peaceful, sprawling complex on the city’s outskirts that includes a mosque, gardens and madrasa. The monument is also associated with stories of Fragrant Princess 香妃. She was a…

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Filed Under: The Silk Road . 丝绸之路, West.华西

Torugart Pass . 吐尔尕特山口

June 28, 2018 by Karin Leave a Comment

The air at 3752 metres left us breathless, but maybe it was the final 500 metre trek to the border post with all our luggage, that did it. A log-jam of semi-trailers and overloaded trucks blocked the way. There are 150 of them every day. Torugart Pass (from Kashgar to Kyrgyzstan) has been used since…

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Filed Under: Kyrgyzstan . 吉尔吉斯斯坦, West.华西

Kashgar Livestock Market.生畜交易市场

June 27, 2018 by Karin Leave a Comment

At the risk of being trampled by a cartload of prized fat-tailed sheep, we ventured to the livestock market today. After all, it has been a weekly highlight of Kashgar’s calendar for centuries and a magnet for Uyghur herders and farmers from miles around. In an earthy crush of man and beast, every saleable sheep,…

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Filed Under: The Silk Road . 丝绸之路, West.华西

Kashgar . 喀什市. قەشقەر‎

June 27, 2018 by Karin Leave a Comment

The first thing that strikes you when you land is the chalk-dry heat, then the yellow dust and sand that billows across the plains. Yesterday we started our month-long travel adventure in Kashgar, an oasis city in the far-west province of Xinjiang. It took us 6 hours to fly here (via Urumqi) and we landed…

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Filed Under: The Silk Road . 丝绸之路, West.华西

Yang Rou Pao Mo . 羊肉泡馍

March 15, 2018 by Karin Leave a Comment

  They say the first thing you should try when in Xian 西安 is Yang Rou Pao Mo 羊肉泡馍. It’s hard to find a succinct translation for “crumbled unleavened flatbread soaked in mutton stew” but it’s a local specialty, steeped in more than 1,000 years of history. It’s the original fusion food – Persian flatbread…

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Filed Under: Central.华中, The Silk Road . 丝绸之路 Tagged With: Xian

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