Uyghur Cuisine Flavor and Politics Take Center Stage in LA Times Review | Eater LA

"A recent San Gabriel Valley arrival led by owner Bughra Arkin, this restaurant spotlights Northwest China’s Muslim Uyghur cuisine and gestures toward current reports of repression back home. Signature items include a da pan ji — a heap of chicken with potatoes, chopped red and green peppers, slivers of garlic and ruddy dried chiles — and a straightforward stir-fried lamb freckled with cumin seeds. Equally addictive is a jumble of fried cubes of naan tossed with beef and cumin that produces the enveloping aroma in the dining room; the reviewer even prefers these to the kebabs. Manti dumplings and long laghman noodles are mostly wins, there are some enjoyable non-Uyghur dishes as well, and having opened only in January the place already reads as “a welcome new bright star” in the region’s constellation of cuisines." - Farley Elliott