Laghman (food)
Laghman is a Central Asian dish of pulled noodles, meat and vegetables. The noodle is known as latiaozi in China.
Native Turkic words do not begin with L, so läghmän is most likely a loan-word, probably from the Chinese lamian, although its taste and preparation are distinctly Uyghur.
It is especially popular in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where it is considered a national dish of the local Uyghur and Dungan ethnic minorities. It is also popular in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Northeastern Afghanistan, where chickpeas are added to it and parts of Northern Pakistan. The Crimean Tatar cuisine also adopted lagman from the Uzbek culture.
