{"id":7363,"date":"2011-05-18T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2011-05-18T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:58:04","slug":"out-of-the-raw-and-into-the-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/?p=7363","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Raw and Into the Well-Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

We woke up our last morning in Hohhot and feasted briefly on the Internet before strapping all our things down onto our cycles and heading to our in search of noodles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We ended up going back to the same Uyghur noodle place that we\u2019d found our first morning here, and ordered a couple more bowls of lamb noodles, this time accompanied by a few Uighur kebabs, and what the Chinese call \u201cChuar.\u201d<\/p>\n

The symbol for Chuar is \u4e32, which can be found throughout all over most mainland Chinese cities. It\u2019s an easy one to spot, the Chuar character, since it looks like a kebab. Another character which I noticed it also looks a lot like \u4e2d, which is the first character of the Chinese word for China, \u4e2d\u56fd, literally translated “Middle Kingdom” or “Central Country”. That made us think. What if there was a chuar guo (\u4e32\u56fd)? Would that place be anything like our beloved Xiniang Uighur semi-autonomous region<\/a>?\u00a0And so with it we\u2019d like to announce a new t-shirt: Chuarguo<\/a>, in hope of promoting it as a pro-Xinjiang underground movement in favor of increased chuar consumption and support of Uighur entrepreneurship in the world at large.<\/p>\n