Review: At Dolan’s Uyghur Cuisine, a taste of northwest China’s cultural crossroads

Dolan's Uyghur Cuisine in Alhambra is one of the few Southern California restaurants to feature the unique cooking of northwest China's Xinjiang province.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 28, 2019
Every few minutes at Dolan’s Uyghur Cuisine in Alhambra, a server blasts out of the kitchen with his arms outstretched, lugging a round platter with both hands. He’s delivering the next order of da pan ji, or “big plate chicken.” Nearly everyone...
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