Exquisite Chuan'r: Tumaris Xinjiang restaurant

With its staid, wooden furnishings, snaking corridors, opulent private rooms and chandeliers galore, Tumaris is far from your typical mutton skewer dive. This restaurant is decidedly upscale, Central Asian style, with fine food and Uyghur-speaking staff and customers attesting to its authenticity.

The kebabs are exquisite, if pricey – RMB 10 gets you a Jurassic-sized skewer of massive, meaty chunks, enough to satisfy any lamb craving, while a skewer of barbecued kidney (烤肥腰) costs RMB 68 and skewer platters featuring everything from lamb ribs to specialty meats and various sheep’s organs range from RMB 238-698. Other mutton-based specialties include whole roasted goat (kao quan yang 靠全羊: RMB 1,888) and an intriguing-looking dish called “Lamb in Naan Pit (RMB 68)” consisting of a grilled mutton slab on a bed of naan bread.

Bellydancers and Uyghur musicians perform nightly from 7-10pm.

Daily 11am-11pm. 3/F, Fuxing Guoji Zhongxin (100 m south and across the street from the east gate of Chaoyang Hospital), 237 Chaoyang Beilu, Chaoyang District. (8571 5191/2) 朝阳北路237号复星国际中心三层

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