Orda  Restaurant
This is Uighur dining, made easy; with its kitchen in the center of the restaurant you can just point to what you want. Orders are taken at a register, and the food arrives at your table seconds later. Try the pilao (rice pilaf) set meal, which comes with yogurt, which you can dole onto your rice to give it a creamy texture. The atmosphere is pleasant, with walls decorated in colorful tiles and Uighur musicians that play traditional instruments. If you order the fruit plate, remember to eat the watermelon first, before the grapes and the Hami melon — it’s an Uighur taboo to do it in reverse!
Location Renmin Dong Lu (Diqu Sifa Duimian)
City Kashgar
Phone 0998/265-2777
Cuisine Turkish
Intizar Restaurant :
In addition to meat dishes, patrons of this popular restaurant might also be offered a dish of mung bean noodles mixed with julienned radishes, carrots and cabbage, all tossed with a vinegar dressing.
Address 33 West Renmin Rd, Kashgar
Phone 998/258-5666
3 –Caravan Cafe Restaurant :
After some time in Xinjiang, the caffeine-deprived may dream of the smell of freshly ground coffee or of lattes with perfectly formed froth, perhaps accompanied by a cinnamon roll and a bowl of muesli with yogurt, served by handsome and courteous waitstaff. Fortunately, this is no mirage — the coffee, the food, and the service are 100% real and 100% Western. Managed by Westerners with a passion for central Asia, and staffed by friendly English-speaking Uighurs, the Caravan Cafe can also arrange top-of-the-line adventure travel to the Taklamakan Desert, Shipton’s Arch, and Mustagh Ata. If you want to know what’s going on in town, make this your first port of call.
Address Seman Lu 120, Kashgar, Xinjiang Province
Phone 0998/298-1864
4 - Lao Chayuan Jiudian Restaurant :
When the locals treat themselves, they make for this eatery, an institution since 1989. Service can be frosty, and the pseudo-Arabian decor is tacky. Let the food take center stage. All dishes are well presented, often with fancy garnishes, something you don’t see a lot of in southern Xinjiang. For starters, try ban san si, a finely sliced salad of capsicum, onion, carrot, cucumber, and noodles; or try the old favorite, roast peanuts. Recommended main courses are a tender beef stir-fry (chaokao rou) and the dry-fried spring chicken (ganbian tongziji). The local delicacy is field mushrooms steamed with bok choy, ginger, and garlic (bachu mogu), although their slippery texture won’t be to everyone’s taste.
Address Renmin Xi Lu 251, Kashgar, Xinjiang Province
Phone 0998/282-4467
Yarbag Polohanisi Restaurant:
Kashgar’s best-known restaurant has been packed with locals for the several years, taking shade under a willow tree. Alas, old willow trees are not in the picture for the new Kashgar. City planners have arranged a date with the bulldozer, leaving the new restaurant with the unwieldy name “The pilaf and noodle restaurant that was once next to the no. 9 Primary School.” The willow tree remains the logo, and the larger premises will continue to serve savory pilaf and beef ball noodles (wanzimian).
Location Jiefang Bei Lu (135m/450 ft. south of Seman Lu)
City Kashgar .