Dolan’s Uyghur Cuisine
Uyghur cuisine restaurant · Alhambra ·
Halal Asian fusion: Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh dishes
Halal Asian fusion: Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh dishes
"Dolan’s is an exceptional Halal restaurant specializing in cuisine from the Uyghur region in China’s Xinjiang province. Our favorite dishes include goshnaan—a Uyghur-style naan filled with ground beef, lamb, and black pepper sauce—and the Big Plate Chicken, a self-explanatory dish filled with juicy hunks of stir-fried chicken mixed with potatoes, peppers, leeks, and hand-pulled flat noodles. Besides the excellent food, a meal at Dolan’s also goes deeper than what’s on the table. The owners wear shirts that read “Google Uyghurs,” and up at the counter, links are provided to offer more information on the Chinese government’s actions against the Uyghur people. " - sylvio martins, brant cox, garrett snyder
"Dolan’s is an exceptional Halal restaurant specializing in cuisine from the Uyghur region in China’s Xinjiang province. Our favorite dishes include goshnaan—a Uyghur-style naan filled with ground beef, lamb, and black pepper sauce—and the Big Plate Chicken, a self-explanatory dish filled with juicy hunks of stir-fried chicken mixed with potatoes, peppers, leeks, and hand-pulled flat noodles. Besides the excellent food, a meal at Dolan’s also goes deeper than what’s on the table. The owners wear shirts that read “Google Uyghurs,” and up at the counter, links are provided to offer more information on the Chinese government's actions against the Uyghur people." - brant cox, sylvio martins
"In a MAMA-produced clip, owner Bugra Arkin speaks directly about the plight of the Uyghur people and how his father’s disappearance motivated him to open the restaurant as a way to preserve and share his community’s cuisine, a personal and political story MAMA translated and amplified through its cinematic social videos." - Jean Trinh
"Dolan’s is an exceptional Halal restaurant specializing in cuisine from the Uyghur region in China’s Xinjiang province. Our favorite dishes include goshnaan—a Uyghur-style naan filled with ground beef, lamb, and black pepper sauce—and the Big Plate Chicken, a self-explanatory dish filled with juicy hunks of stir fried chicken mixed with potatoes, peppers, leeks, and hand-pulled flat noodles. And as great as the food is, a meal at Dolan’s delves deeper than what’s on the table. The owners wear shirts that read “Google Uyghurs,” and up at the counter, links are provided to offer more information on the ongoing genocide being inflicted on the Uyghur people by the Chinese government." - Brant Cox
"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