"A noodle pull here reaches heights rarely achieved in other noodle spots. The lagman are stretched and twisted over and over until the right thinness is achieved. The meat dishes also shine. The lamb-stuffed samsa is juicy, and the lamb, serve on sword-like skewers, are dressed cumin, which gives a yellow tinge that can be mistaken for turmeric. Owner Adil Nurdun brought most of these recipes from Toksun County in the autonomous Uyghur region of Xinjiang — though prefers to call it Turkestan — in northwest China to Flushing when he opened Nurlan in June 2019." - Caroline Shin, Robert Sietsema