[2024 Hotan Attraction] Travel Guide for Hotan Night Market (Updated Oct)
Featured Neighborhoods
Address:
Hetian Renmin Road
Recommended sightseeing time:
2-3 hours
Hotan Night Market | A must-visit for Xinjiang cuisine.
Hotan Night Market is a popular tourist destination in Xinjiang, attracting a large number of tourists with its unique geographical location, large scale, rich food, and free access. Whether you want to taste authentic Xinjiang cuisine or experience the strong ethnic customs, Hotan Night Market is a must-visit tourist destination.
Hotan has two bustling night markets, and this night market near Renmin West Road is the old night market that everyone talks about!
🌈Highlights:
✅Hotan Night Market covers an area of 4,600 square meters, with 260 stalls, a total length of 272 meters, and a variety of foods that will dazzle you; the prices are clearly marked, so you can consume with confidence.
✅Here you can taste roast whole lamb (CNY 70/jin), roast lamb chops, roast lamb skewers (CNY 20), roast buns (CNY 5), and tripe with meat (CNY 15), chili chicken, yogurt zongzi, fig zongzi (CNY 8), naan with meat, braised lamb's feet, salty milk tea, oil tower (CNY 2), lamb offal soup (small CNY 15, large CNY 20), etc. The ingredients are real and sufficient, the taste is delicious, and you can eat until you are full.
✅Three eggs and one star: The signature dish here is made by mixing and roasting pigeon eggs, chicken eggs, and goose eggs. It has a unique taste and is rich in nutrition. Highly recommended!
📍Location: Renmin West Road, Hotan City
⏰Business hours: 20:00 to 2:00 the next day
🎫Ticket: CNY 0
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Hetian Night Market | Food Guide (No one can leave hungry)
| Food Guide (No one can leave hungry). Xinjiang's night markets truly ensure no one leaves hungry 😎
Hetian Night Market has two sections: the new night market and the old night market.
However, the taxi driver recommended we go to the old night market, where there is more food.
📍For navigation to the old night market, just search for 'Hetian Night Market' (near Renmin Road).
⏱️Opening hours:
Open: 20:00 (Remember this time, don't come too early)
Close: Around 1:00 AM
📎Must-try foods:
✅Yogurt Rice Dumplings (5 yuan, 8 yuan with jam)
Cut the rice dumplings into four pieces, spread yogurt, sweet sauce, and finally drizzle with jam. It's sweet and sour, very delicious (if you don't like it too sweet, you can use less sweet sauce).
✅Peppery Chicken (40 yuan)
Spicy but not overwhelming, numbing but not paralyzing, crispy skin and tender meat, extremely tasty.
✅Pomegranate Juice (10 yuan)
Pure pomegranate juice, perfect for cutting through the grease when eating skewers.
✅Yogurt (10 yuan)
The yogurt here is very thick, but not as sour as in Tibetan areas. It's sweet, somewhat like the texture of Ambrosia, but not as sweet (many are fruit yogurts, if you want plain yogurt, just don't add fruit).
✅Kvass (8 yuan/cup)
A unique Xinjiang drink, fermented with honey and wheat flowers. On a hot summer day, a cold bottle of Kvass is super refreshing.
✅Grilled Lamb Intestines (2 yuan per skewer)
Sizzling with oil, not at all gamey, super fragrant.
✅Fruits (10/20/30 yuan)
Watermelons and Hami melons are super sweet and delicious 😂
✅Various meat skewers, lamb hooves
Choose any, you can't go wrong, all are delicious.
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Hotan·Two-day tour guide share
Hotan·Two-day tour guide share🌟
🏨Accommodation·Chose Tuan City Hotel, 168💰. The off-season price is affordable, a newly opened hotel, the front door is the Tuan City scenic area, the room window is facing the Tuan City pedestrian street, it feels great when you open the curtain! 👏🏻See picture 2
🚖Travel·In Hotan City, taking a taxi is the most convenient way, the starting price is 8 yuan. Online car-hailing is not very popular in the southern Xinjiang region, especially it is more convenient to take a taxi on the roadside for tourism.
🛕Attractions·Main push Tuan City scenic area! Free to visit and take pictures, a bit like Kashgar Old City but quieter. There are many shops selling gold, fewer souvenirs, and the overall feeling is unique. Hotan Museum is also a good choice.
🦋About ethnic costume travel shooting: I didn't find it all around Tuan City, and the shop owner said that there were fewer tourists in winter. If you can't find it in Tuan City, you can try it in advance in 🦘Tuan.
❌Not recommended: Yotkan Ancient City, which is considered to be a more artificially constructed attraction, but it's okay to go at night if you want to watch ethnic song and dance performances.
🍽Food·Hotan Night Market is a paradise for food, the old night market is cheap and has many varieties. It is recommended to try local specialties such as barbecue, roast pigeon, roast fish, roast eggs, roast watermelon meat, sour milk zongzi, etc. 🍢
🌡Weather·The weather is quite pleasant, generally not lower than -10℃, no snow. It is recommended to bring sweaters, down jackets, and fleece-lined pants for warm travel.
Finally: You can go to Hotan's jade trading market, but pay attention to the match between quality and price when purchasing. Jade can only say that the quality is directly proportional to the price, regardless of true or false, just like it, treat it as a unique souvenir.