Chinese Islamic cuisine
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Date: 09/12/2021

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A halal bakery in Tuanjie St, the main street of Linxia City Cuisine of Chinese Muslims （Chinese: 淸眞菜; pinyin: Qīngzhēn cài; lit. 'Ḥalāl cuisine', Dungan: Чыңжән цаы or Chinese: 回族菜; pinyin: Huízú cài; lit. 'Hui people's cuisine',
Dungan: Ҳуэйзў цаы） is the cuisine of the Hui （ethnic Chinese Muslims） and other Muslims living in China such as Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar and Uyghurs as well as Dungans of Central Asia.
While it does have distinctive dishes like clear-broth beef noodle soup and chuanr, Chinese Islamic cuisine typically consists of variations on regionally popular foods that are typical of normal Han Chinese cuisine, in particular to make them halal.
Additionally, it borrows ingredients from Middle Eastern, Turkic, and South Asian cuisines, notably the heavy use of mutton and spices.
Finally, typical of "northern" Chinese food, Chinese Islamic cuisine almost exclusively uses wheat noodles as the staple, to the near complete exclusion of rice.
While these variations are typically minor for each dish, they together add up to create a very distinctive cuisine.
Due to the large Muslim population in Western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to or are run by, Muslims.
Northern Chinese Islamic cuisine originated in China proper.
It is heavily influenced by Beijing cuisine, with nearly all cooking methods identical and differs only in material due to religious restrictions.
As a result, northern Islamic cuisine is often included in home Beijing cuisine though seldom in east coast restaurants.
During the Yuan dynasty, halal and kosher methods of slaughtering animals and preparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol emperors,
starting with Genghis Khan who banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way and made them follow the Mongol ...