For traditional Tatar food, cheese, honey, milk, jam, and cream are the main ingredients, and theingredients are all home-made and additive-free. The Tatar pastry is delicate, tasty andrenowned in Xinjiang throughout the country. Let's take a look at some of them.

Gubadia [Photo/ts.cn]

1. Gubadia

A kind of baked cake stuffed with meat, rice, egg and dried fruits. First, wash the rice and dry itunder the sun, and then put it in to the heating stove covered with cream, dried apricot slices,raisins and other ingredients. The cake is crisp outside and soft inside, smelling delicious.

Paramax [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn]

2. Paramax

A kind of round meat pie with the central part pinched into chrysanthemum patterns. The stuffedmeat is not wholly enclosed into the wrapper, and looks like a delicate dessert from the outside.

Belen [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn]

3. Belen

The dish is composed of pieces of very thin egg cakes with rice and meat wrapped inside. It is said that the egg cakes can have seven layers.

Zaituna Karmuwa, dedicated to protect the Tatar ethnic culture, shows the traditional Tatar food Belen she cooked in Tacheng of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo by Nijat·Niyaz/provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Qibi Bailex [Photo/ts.cn]

4. Qibi Bailex

The heart-shaped pastry looks just like baked bread from the outside, while when you cut it open,there is a surprise inside. Chicken, mutton, rice and onion are hidden in the hollowed bread,which is very delicious and fragrant as soon as you open the lid.

Piruk [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn]

5. Piruk

Piruk is a kind of dessert stuffed with jam and shaped like a dumpling.

Other desserts:

Kat La Ma, a kind of dessert from Europe, has a French name, mille feuille. It has manylayers of crust pastries. [Photo/ts.cn]

Traditional cookies made by Tatar people, by Zaituna Karmuwa [Photo by BiNan/chinadaily.com.cn]

Wuxi Pux Mak, a kind of triangle-shaped toast [Photo/ts.cn]