Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Omar’s Xinjiang Halal Restaurant. (“Omar’s has a large menu, with all manners 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.”) Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, “From the steppes of Central Asia.”
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