The best makanan halal in China can be found in the 3,000-year-old city of Xi& #39;an. This is where the Chinese dynasties started, it is also the first city in China to receive Islam.
The Muslims here are called Hui, a minority designation which includes mostly descendants of early Han Muslims, and other ethnicities from the northwest.

Han are the "normal Chinese" we know lah. But if a Han convert to Islam today, he is not considered a Hui.
So, being a major city in the web of routes called the Silk Route, you can imagine the amount of cultural cross-pollination that took place over the millennia.
Most people think babi is the most prized meat in China sebab cina memang babi. But no, they& #39;re wrong. The most prized meat is lamb.

Not sure where they got the pineapples from. Must be a relatively new dish?
By the way, did you know that in China there is 1 mosque to every 500 Muslim? Comparatively Malaysia has 1 masjid to every 3,000.

Muslims were also exempted from the one-child policy which ran for 36 years. That is to say the claim of Muslim genocide is a bit tak masuk akal.
One of the oldest mosques in Xi’an, built in 702AD. That’s roughly 1,300 years old.
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