What to eat

Crusty Pancake: Crusty Pancake is a popular and essential food for the Uyghurs just like the northern steamed bread and the southern rice and the western bread. At present, there are dozens of crusty pancakes such as oily crusty pancake, corn crusty pancake, sesame crusty pancake, meat crusty pancake and thin crusty pancake, which are divided according to different seasonings.

Ququ
Ququ is a kind of traditional food that is similar to wonton. But Ququ is unique in materials and production.
The making process of Ququ is easy. First, chop up the mutton. Then mix onion, pepper, salt and a little stock to make the stuffing. Wrap the stuffing in dough wrappers in the shape of squares. After boiling, add some coriander. With thin skin, lushy filling and the mutton soup with original taste and flavor, Ququ tastes really very good.
Ququ is loved by Uygur very much. You can eat it at any restaurant in the towns and villages of Xinjiang.

Baked Mutton Kebabs
Baked mutton kebabs are very famous in Xinjiang. It can be found anywhere in the streets of any city or small market town throughout Xinjiang.
The kebabs are turned continually on the charcoal fire, and when they are almost done, salt, pepper paprika and cumin are sprinkled on them according to your needs. The selected mutton is very fresh and tender, not greasy and smelly at all.
Xingjinag baked mutton kebabs are favored by almost everyone. You will regret if you miss trying them when you are in Xinjiang.

what to buy

Fig
Kashgr abounds in fig. Fig is a large, deciduous shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. Fig is rich in nutrition with 24% candy containment, and is one of the highest plant sources of calcium and fiber. Fig can be either eaten fresh or dried or made into jam.
Fig is usually planted in courtyard or cultivated in rooms as potted landscape to beautify the environment.
 

Soil Earthenware
Kashgar earthenware has a history of more than one thousand years. The traditional producing methods of soil earthenware are still used today.
Oil earthenware is the most famous among Kashgar earthenware. Kashgar soil earthenware mainly includes bowls, plates, dishes, kettles and jars, including the colors dark green, light green, yellow, light yellow, brown, black and black.
Kashgar soil earthenware attracts a lot of visitors both home and abroad for years owning special aesthetic value and artistic charm.
 

Pomegranate
Pomegranate, which is called "Anaer" in Uygur, is one of the most important local products in Kashgar. Pomegranates in Yecheng, having a good title of "country of Pomegranates" are the most well-known for being big juicy and with thin skins. Yecheng is situated at the north foot of Kunlun Mountain. With short frost period, long sunshine time and great difference in temperature during day and night, this area is suitable to planting Pomegranate. Yecheng pomegranate is loved by many people.

what to do in the evening

In Kashgar, the best thing to do is to go to the bazaars, which we call them “night markets”. At night, the streets around Id Kah Mosque comes more alive than the daytime with food stalls selling a smorgasbord of steaming goat stew with bobbling goats' heads, rings of intestines, and so on.

People in the night market are mostly Uygur and Uzbek who wear very different kind of clothes. Older people wear Tumak or Turban, younger people wear Doppa a four cornered Hat which is flower design or whit design and Almond with tomb design.
People there are very friendly and helpful. You will find it very interesting to be together with the local people in the night market.

weather

Situated in the central Asia, Kashgar is the most west city of China. Kashgar belongs to temperate continental climate. Like most cities in northwest of China, Kashgar is dry all year round. The four seasons in Kashgar are very clear.
The annual average temperature for the year of Kashgar is 11oC. The temperatures in the city are pleasant most of the year.
Kashgar has a long cool summer and a short warm winter. The coolest month is January, the average temperature is -6oC; the hottest month is July, the average temperature is 27oC.
The period from April and October is a wonderful time to visit Kashgar, while the most comfortable time to visit Kashgar is from August and September when there is blossom and fruit on the trees at that time.

Kashgar Location: 35°20'~40°18' North Latitude, 73°20'~79°57' East Longitude
Here are the details of rainfall, max temperature and min temperature in each month.