Turpan raisins in Chinatown

Chinese text: Turpan, Xinjiang Dried Grapes

Chinese text: Turpan, Xinjiang Dried Grapes

We have yet another import from the Uyghur homeland of Xinjiang available here in Philadelphia. These are raisins from Turpan, a city particularly well known for its sweet fruit (including grapes and melons). I found these at the newly reborn Heng Fa Market in Chinatown, but I have already seen them elsewhere as well. They are sweet and delicious. So, in addition to figs and melons, we have a slowly growing selection of Xinjiang (or Xinjiang-similar) offerings!

About David Dettmann

Food obsessed and frequently nostalgic.
This entry was posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, Central Asia/Uyghur food, Chinese food and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s