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Omar's Xinjiang Halal
Photo by Anne Fishbein 

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1718 New Ave. San Gabriel, CA 91776

626-570-9778 

 

1718 New Ave. San Gabriel CA 91776

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  • Chinese, Halal
    Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat 11am-3pm, Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat 5pm-10pm
    $ $
  • cash
    Family Style, Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
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    Not Necessary
    Lot Available, Street
Description

Omar's specializes in Islamic Uyghur cooking, a cuisine that more closely resembles the cooking of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan than it does anything you might think of as Chinese - Central Asian cooking approached from the East rather than the West. When you eat Mrs. Omar's Uyghur cooking, you begin to understand the interconnected nature of the world. It has a large menu, with all manner of food prepared in many different ways. You will not be tasting most of it - as in Xinjiang itself, I suspect, most of the food is only theoretically available, and you will be pointed instead to the half-dozen Uyghur dishes, which are pretty much what you want to be eating here anyway.








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