{"id":8779,"date":"2019-05-31T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2019-06-29T19:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:36:50","slug":"kashkar-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"Kashkar Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instagram Post 5\/29\/2019<\/h4>\n

While fine tuning my ethnojunket <\/a>through Little Odessa, I visited Kashkar Caf\u00e9, 1141 Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn. Kashkar serves the food of the Uyghur people, a primarily Muslim ethnic group who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China near Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan; as you\u2019d expect, the fare is a comingling of Chinese and Central Asian cuisines and definitely worth getting to know.<\/p>\n

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\nAshlangfu (\u0430\u0448\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0444\u0443) salad, aka lang-foo noodles. If you\u2019ve enjoyed Chinese mung bean jelly noodle, you\u2019ll recognize these slippery slices as their cognate, liangfen. The dish included bits of lamb and chopped vegetables in a light, tangy sauce, but lurking unexpectedly beneath the pile was lagman, Uyghur\u2019s claim to noodle fame (Chinese cognate: lo mein).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kazi (you might see qaz\u0131) was described as \u201cpickled sausage from the beef meat in home styles\u201d; in Central Asia, kazi is made from horsemeat, so the annotation was reassuring. This isn\u2019t a ground meat type of sausage, rather it\u2019s dry cured rib meat in a natural casing, served cold. Not particularly pickled in flavor, it was dense and earthy and the vegetables plus a squeeze of lemon were a welcome accompaniment. A little goes a long way with these slices, but it\u2019s worth doing once.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was a winner. Tsomyan (\u0446\u043e\u043c\u044f\u043d), cognate with chow mein, was described as sliced fried dough and lamb meat with vegetables. When you see \u201cdough\u201d on the menu, it refers to a thick doughy noodle that\u2019s a little reminiscent of Xi\u2019an hand pulled noodles if a bit drier; the term distinguishes it from lagman noodles. Splendid char on those chewy noodles; really excellent.<\/p>\n

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\nAND speaking of Little Odessa, there are some slots open for Tuesday, June 4th\u2019s ethnojunket along Brooklyn\u2019s Brighton Beach Avenue! Simply click here <\/a>to find out how to join in the fun!
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A few plates of deliciousness from the unique Uyghur restaurant in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa. AND a few slots open for Tuesday, June 4th\u2019s ethnojunket along Brighton Beach Avenue! Read on to find out how to join in the fun…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,59,6],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnojunkets","category-instagram","category-restaurants-food-courts","tag-uyghur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}