A Uyghur kitchen operating inside the Northtown Way retail cluster in North York, one of the few spots in Toronto serving the wheat-and-lamb-centred cooking of Xinjiang, the vast Central Asian-facing region of China's northwest. The corporate name references Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, anchoring this kitchen to a specific city rather than the generalized northwestern Chinese category that often swallows Uyghur cooking whole. North York's dispersed Central Asian and Chinese-speaking communities have limited dedicated access to this cuisine a licensed Urumqi-rooted kitchen this far north on Yonge fills a genuine gap in the directory. The Xinjiang-style stir-fried rice noodles, wide chewy strands tossed with lamb, pepper tomato over high heat the Mala skewers, cumin-forward meat threaded and charred on open flame, are the two dishes that define what this kitchen is actually cooking. · No website yet.