In the Uyghur supermarket in Kashgar, are there any ingredients that are different from those in the south?

In my impression, there is only this one large supermarket (for Uyghurs) in the old city of Kashgar, called Yihelas.

It doesn’t look special on the surface. It also has open shelves and a row of cashiers. However, it sells some things unique to Kashgar. For tourists, it can be used as an "attraction". Just for a stroll.

This travel note will classify them into categories and show them one by one.

Snacks and Snacks

Cheese: This is the legendary cheese pimple that Dilireba likes to eat the most. It looks very tempting, but the taste of this cheese is completely different from the sweet cheese slices and dried milk we usually eat.

This milk pimple is original, sour and hard, pure dry cheese. It can be used as snacks, pasta, and dishes. It has relatively low calories, but I still recommend that you don’t try it easily. Almost every mainland tourist who eats it for the first time cannot accept it.

If you are interested in trying it, just buy a small piece and make sure you can swallow it before buying more.

Candy: You can see a lot of candies that look like foreign imports in supermarkets in Kashgar. If you look carefully at the text on them, most of them are in Uyghur. The price is higher than ordinary candies. Among them Candies containing bada wood, walnut kernels and other dried fruits have a sweet and authentic taste. Most of these dried fruits are produced in Xinjiang and are made from local materials. It is very suitable to buy some and take them back to relatives and children. Yogurt: Since Xinjiang is rich in red dates, walnuts, raisins, and milk, the yogurt here is mostly red dates, walnuts, and oatmeal flavors. The red date yogurt in Kashgar supermarket is still worth trying.

Red date juice: In addition to red date yogurt, Kashgar also has a variety of red date juices. I also mentioned in my previous travel notes that Kashgar is a place that is good at producing and selling its own products. The richness of products is the city’s advantage, so there is never a shortage of fruits, vegetables, meat and noodles. When traveling in Xinjiang, food often leaves a deeper impression on people than the scenery.

Original yogurt: Tianrun is a local milk brand in Xinjiang. The original yogurt is very authentic and the price is higher than the yogurt we usually see. It is the milk produced by the real Tianshan ranch. Every day A must-have for every day in Xinjiang.

Drinks: Buying unfamiliar drinks in Kashgar supermarkets has become a great pleasure of traveling in this city.

Because I really don’t know what’s inside, I often can only guess through the patterns on the outer packaging. I can read the pictures and read them. Sometimes I can hit the theme, but sometimes I can’t.

For example, the following drink is "Kashgar Red Bull".

Abed: Among all drinks, this is the best-selling carbonated drink in Kashgar. It is a kind of soda pop, known as the "Kashgar people's Sprite". The bubbles are very strong, but the taste is much sweeter than Sprite and the sugar content is very high. If you travel to Kashgar, you can buy it and taste it to experience the life of the locals, but drinking too much is not conducive to weight loss.

Specialty Products

Black wolfberry: This can be said to be a plant that everyone is familiar with. It is called the "king of anthocyanins". It regulates the body's pH and fights free radicals. Lower blood pressure, protect against radiation, and improve immunity? Due to differences in climate and geographical environment, Xinjiang’s black wolfberry production is large and the price-performance ratio is better. After returning from Xinjiang, I developed the habit of drinking black wolfberry soaked in water.

Remember not to use boiling water, use warm water, if it comes out a beautiful purple color, then that’s it.

Maca: A deified item. In fact, both men and women can drink it. Its main function is to awaken vitality and resist fatigue. Long-term drinking will have a more significant effect. There are two types of maca I saw in the supermarket in Kashgar, maca fruit and maca.

During the few months I was in Kashgar, I sent some to a sister in the mainland.

I was still a little nervous at the time. I didn’t do this business either. What if the product I bought for someone wasn’t good? Unexpectedly, a few months later, she came to me again and said that the black wolfberry and maca she bought before were good for her husband and husband, and she wanted to buy more. Unfortunately, I was no longer in Kashgar at that time. .

But this incident shows that the black wolfberry and maca in Kashgar are indeed worth buying. If you travel to Kashgar, interested friends can go to the supermarket to look for them.

Dried sea buckthorn fruit: a fruit with extremely high vitamin C content. It usually grows in the dry land of southern Xinjiang in large tracts and has thorns on its body. When I was traveling by car in Xinjiang, I often saw them hanging in bunches on the roadside. Later, we would bring a plastic bag with us to pick them at any time.

There are also black wolfberries, and you can see many wild ones along the Pamir Plateau.

Looking back now, there are some things that you really can only experience locally. In fact, you can’t pick a few handfuls at a time, but it is a rare pleasure in Kashgar travel.

Tea: Many of the flowers on the Pamirs are supplements that only appear in a certain season.

In addition, there is this small fruit that looks like a tadpole with a big head and a long and thin tail. I still don’t know what it is, but it became a favorite on my trip to Kashgar, Xinjiang. One of the "unsolved mysteries".

Others

Essential oils and soaps: In midsummer every year, it is the time when Yili's purple air comes from the east. Large tracts of lavender bloom, and there are also a sea of ????flowers composed of other types of flowers. , so in supermarkets in Kashgar and even across Xinjiang, you can often see a variety of lavender, rose, and daily necessities with various floral fragrances.