Xinjiang Crescent Moon Uighur Muslim Restaurant — Restaurant in Beijing

I and hubby was in Beijing on 30th October 2024. Google for halal restaurant and was directed to this restaurant. We had a 20mins walk. Location was at Hutong but was quiet. We walked in, sat and waitress gave us menu which had English translation. We ordered 2 stick of lamb stomach, 1 steam rice, 1 naan, beef stew, broccoli in garlic sauce, omelette with onion and 2 pcs of lamb pies. The lamb stomach was a disaster...not cooked at all. Can eat at all so we return but told waitress we will pay for it. Just wanted her to clear that...very disgusting. Pies were served and was really awesome. Follwed by all the rest. The naan was like crackers very crispy not soft. Broccoli was very tasty. Omelette was a failure, it was like a crispy pancake nothing like omelette with onion than came the beef stew, a very big portion with beef, carrots and potatoes. We were really shocked to receive such a big portion. The waitress should have told us that the beef stew will be a big portion so that we could have cut down on our orders. Seriously, we could not finish and left almost 3/4 of the stew. Service staff not friendly, not talking, not smiling. They call Halal restaurant but serve alchol...how can that be halal? Food was average and service was below average. Food was not cheap. Not worth the price for such average food. We will never go back to this restaurant again if we...

Went there after having read some positive reviews. By hindsight I realize now that most of these were dated!

I ordered three dishes. Lamb samsa was good, lamb skewers just ok. Pilaf was not great and ayran they mixed up with sweetened commercial yogurt with resins sprinkled on it for some reason.

It is not a tourist/foreigner friendly restaurant. If you don’t speak Chinese than if can be worse.

For a Saturday night the staff was thin. One girl was doing bulk of the work and had neither the time nor the inclination to be client centered or generally helpful.

The weather was a little chilly outside and it had started to drizzle. So at the end of the meal, I requested the restaurant staff to help me call a taxi cab which they refused to do. Flat refusal as if it wasn’t their problem. Which is fine perhaps as locals will normally not make such a request. However, behaving this way with a tourist, who quite clearly neither had the local DiDi app (Chinese Ubër equivalent) nor any Chinese language skills, bordered on being extremely callous, rude, and offensive. At least that’s how I felt then and still feel, back in the comfort of my hotel room!

The place is located in a quaint hutong and the overall ambiance and locale is nice. Alas the food quality and service perhaps needs more time to recover from what must be a negative impact of the long lockdown during...

I'm a Malaysian tourist in Beijing. I looked up the internet and got the info that this is one of the best place to enjoy Uighur Muslim Cuisines.

I went to this restaurant on foot from Dongsi Subway Station, there were few customers when I arrived at around 4.30pm.

This place has a pleasant atmosphere with it's beautiful interior decorations, waiters in Uighur costumes and with traditional Uighur songs being played in the background.

The Uighur waiters hardly spoke any English (this is to be expected almost everywhere in Beijing) however the English menu helped a lot with the ordering.

I tried the Xinjiang Uighur Beef Pilaf and some Mutton kebabs.

Between the two, I really liked the Mutton Kebabs. It was very delicious and juicy. The herbs they put on it adds to the unique flavor of the kebabs. (Cost 6yuan/skewer... I ate 5 skewers-full of mutton)

The Beef Pilaf however doesnt suit my palate, it tasted bland and slightly oily, it was not bad but nothing that impressed me about it despite it being written in the menu as 'most popular'. (Cost 22yuan/plate)

Although I prefer food that are much spicier, I believe some people will like this place for its authentic Uighur cuisines.

Drop by this place if you...