Uyghur Cuisine, Dixon Street

So MGS headed into Chinatown on February 10 for the Year of the Rat parade. It was crammed and crowded and after the drums and the dragons the streets became rivers of revellers streaming towards one thing: dumplings.

Frightened by the cram and the lines at the dumpling joints, MGS headed for more Laghman... this time at Uyghur Cuisine, a ground floor establishment on Dixon Street. You can identify the place by the plastic grapes hanging from the roof and the lamb fat hanging in the air of this small, definitely not-posh, Xin Jiang restaurant.

MGS ate cold laghman here, although the noodle dish was supposed to be hot. The noodles were long and chewy in that hand-made noodle kind of way and had they been hotter they would have been quite delightful but for the scant, chewy thumb-nail sized pieces of lamb scattered over the top. But unfortunately the lamb here was too bland and the topping too stingy for MGS to feel really blown away...




For a better Uyghur fix, MGS recommends the Silk Road Restaurant up the stairs next door (see review below).



Uyghur Cuisine
Shop 1, 2 Dixon St.,
Haymarket