Kuqa (Uyghur: كۇچار شەھىرى) is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture (ئاقسۇ ۋىلايىتى), Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆), China. Besides its glorious history as an ancient Buddhist Kingdom, Kuqa is also famous for homemade naan (نان).
Naan is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread found in the cuisines mainly of Iran, Western Asia, South Asia and Indonesia, it is not only a kind of traditional food, but also a cultural heritage.
Flour, eggs and cotton oil are the main ingredients of making the dough of naan. We always use cotton to make clothes, but Choumeizai doesn’t expect that cotton can also make food.
All doughs are leavened in the traditional way, no additive is added, the doughs will be pressed some patterns before they are being put in the oven.
This little bakery is run by a young couple, the wife makes the dough, while the husband bakes the naan, a perfect match.
A tandoor also known as tannour is a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking. Besides naan, the tandoor can be used for cooking meat and even the whole lamb.
Such a delicious naan costs only 3.5 renminbi, Choumeizai buys 5 naans to enjoy.
