Hotan Night Market

Hotan Night Market is a famous food culture landmark in Hotan City, Xinjiang. It integrates Xinjiang specialty food, ethnic dance performances and night economy. It is listed as one of the 100 most beautiful scenic spots in Xinjiang and has become a national 3A-level scenic spot and an autonomous region-level night economy demonstration block. Location: Hotan West Road and Yuquan Lake Park (branch) Scale: 4,600 square meters, 272 meters in total, with more than 260 stalls. Business hours: 8 pm to 2 am the next day every day. Diversity of cuisine: Mainly featuring Xinjiang's "Four Grilled Meats" (grilled meat, grilled eggs, grilled vegetables, grilled inlays) and "Three Eggs and One Star" (mixed eggs grilled) and other signature dishes. Collects hundreds of snacks, with flavors from all over the country. Cultural and physical examination: Daily folk dance performances, aerobics, children's martial arts and other activities. In short, Hotan Night Market is a comprehensive night market that integrates food, culture and shopping. It is a good place to understand Hotan culture and experience Xinjiang style. If you have the opportunity to come to Hotan, don't miss this charming night market! Come and have a look at Hotan Night Market!!!

I am so happy. When I arrived in Hotan City, Xinjiang, I went straight to the night market for special delicacies, such as watermelon barbecue, yogurt rice dumplings, baked eggs, belly wrapped meat, flour lung, rice sausage, and mutton soup. I will lose weight after eating.

Mei Jie's 96th day of traveling around China, Hotan Night Market Hotan has two night markets, both indoors, with singing and dancing performances. Today we went to the old night market, which opens at 8pm. The night market is not long, with a short street of more than 200 meters, but it gathers countless representative local delicacies. The grilled lamb skewers (red willow barbecue), grilled eggs, grilled buns, and yogurt rice dumplings here are local specialties. There is a new type of snack in the Kashgar and Hotan areas of southern Xinjiang, called yogurt rice dumplings. Zongzi is the original zongzi, especially meat zongzi is very popular, with barbecued meat as zongzi, but the focus of yogurt rice dumplings is yogurt. Just peel off the wrapping paper of the zongzi and mix it in yogurt, especially the yogurt made by the old method of Xinjiang is the best. People who like desserts can put some ripe grape juice, honey, apple apricot or pear sweet sauce in the yogurt zongzi, and the yogurt zongzi becomes a dessert. You can also put some dried fruits such as raisins, almonds, almonds and dried fruit peels, which will become dried fruit yogurt zongzi. In Xinjiang, steamed buns are almost always stuffed with mutton. Steamed dumplings are very small and basically cost 2 yuan each, unless you ask the boss for pork filling, but many stores only have mutton. Baked buns are larger and more expensive. Quail eggs, pigeon eggs, chicken eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, ostrich eggs, all eggs can be baked. There is also a fancy way to eat baked eggs, mix goose egg yolk with chicken egg yolk and pigeon egg yolk, then pour honey, garnish with saffron, and stir and bake on charcoal fire. If you want to "tonic" a little more, you can add quail eggs and duck eggs. Red willow barbecue is to string lamb on tamarisk branches and grill on the rack. The roasted lamb skewers are fragrant because of the addition of the flavor of willow branches, and taste better than ordinary barbecue! Tamarix is ​​one of the tree species that can best adapt to life in arid deserts and is an excellent tree species for windbreak and sand fixation. The seedlings of tamarisk are very similar to those of saxaul. The mutton is real mutton, and the smell is not that strong. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it tastes very good! Walking in the Hotan Night Market, the wind blowing over is all barbecued. Take another deep breath, hmm, chili and cumin are added! 1. The gate of the night market 2. The bustling night market 3. Yogurt Zongzi 4. Baked buns 5. Baked eggs 6. Red willow barbecue 7. Oil cakes, mutton soup, sheep's feet, roasted whole lamb, small hanging pear soup 8. Other delicacies 9. Other delicacies, oysters are bigger than the palm

As night falls, the lights come on. The night of a city belongs to the night market. Under the flickering lights, the crowd surges. The endless snack stalls tell the fireworks of this city. For a foodie, Hotan Night Market is simply a food paradise. An indoor corridor with stalls of different sizes on both sides brings together a variety of Xinjiang delicacies. Tempting barbecue, roasted lamb, roasted lamb offal, roasted pigeons, etc., with unique tastes. Especially yogurt rice dumplings, steaming spicy lamb trotters, belly wrapped meat, roasted goose eggs, etc. Make you dazzled, want to eat everything you see, but hate that your stomach is too small. In Hotan Night Market, in addition to all kinds of food, there are also wonderful ethnic song and dance performances. Let your eyes stop, which can not only satisfy your taste buds, but also let you feel the ethnic customs of Xinjiang.

At the Hotan Night Market, you can truly feel the beautiful scene of people of all ethnic groups singing and laughing, living and working in peace and contentment, and being happy and healthy!

[Hotan Night Market] is located on Renmin Road, Hotan City, Xinjiang, right next to the Silver Star Hotel where we stayed. Walking into the night market, the lights are bright, the voices are bustling, and all kinds of delicious food are dazzling. Hand-pulled rice, big plate chicken, pepper chicken, rice dumplings and yogurt, roasted and boiled lamb and beef, roasted goose eggs, roasted chicken eggs, roasted pigeon eggs, roasted ostrich eggs, and countless Xinjiang snacks that I have never seen or eaten... I didn’t know what good taste is until I arrived at the Hotan Night Market, and I realized that my appetite is really too small. In addition to food and drink, the Hotan Night Market can satisfy your appetite, and there are also singing and dancing performances, haha! It’s so happy!