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Ōu’ěr Dáxīkè Night Market

Posted on March 1, 2019December 18, 2020 by KK

No matter where you travel to in the world, night markets always provide fascinating things to look at, interesting people to watch, and delicious food to sample.

Late one evening, I was wandering the streets near Id Kah Mosque when I came across the “Ou Er Da Xi Ke” Road night (technically, “evening”) market. Entrance to the street the night market was located on required getting past a security checkpoint. Uyghurs and anyone who looked Turkic were required to present ID whereas people like myself, Han-looking folk, get past without so much as a glance. Call it… “yellow privilege”.

Stalls selling fruit, nuts, spices, vegetables, snacks were everywhere. Not only is this a popular spot for locals to come for dinner, it was also a hot spot for tourists. I was going from stall to stall when I spotted a big group of Asian tourists (at that time, I had identified where they were from based on the language I overheard them speak but now, I don’t remember) with their DSLR cameras, firing away at everything and everyone.

There was one section where the congregation of stalls were selling cooked food; soup, meats, fried fish, and desserts. Although some of the food being sold looked appealing, there were several stalls selling four-legged-animal innards and what appeared to be goat heads in soup. Although I am one to never shy away from trying some “bizarre foods”, this time, I decided to enjoy a more conventional meal of soup and chicken and left the consumption of those alternative foods to the hungry locals.

Anyway, a picture is worth a thousand words so here are pictures that can better describe the kinds of items on display:

Fried desserts with powder sugar are where it’s at!
Halved goat heads I think? Might’ve been something else.

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