This restaurant was originally called Kaierwang Restaurant, but after changing owners several times, it is now renamed Red Willow. After the renovation, the environment is much brighter, and because the address is at the head of the village, it is full of repeat customers all year round.
Hongliuhua's menu covers Xinjiang, Uyghur snacks, Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine. As a Xinjiang restaurant, the mutton production of Hongliuhua is disappointing. Grilled lamb chops are usually a big dish in town restaurants, and Hongliuhua's Tianshan grilled lamb chops are very unstable, sometimes the selection of ingredients is too lean, and the grill is hard, sometimes it is too fatty, and sometimes it is too salty or simply prepared with curry, which is very puzzling. The meat of the mutton skewers is frozen for too long, the taste is hard when grilled, and the meat aroma is missing. The haggis soup pays attention to the strong taste, the haggis is clean and refreshing, the soup of red willow seems to have too much flavor, and the mutton soup also has a heavy taste.
Compared with the mutton dish, several staple dishes of red willow flowers have saved it some points. Mutton pilaf is more authentic than snow lotus food, the rice is added with enough lamb pieces, raisins, yellow radish, carrots, the rice infiltrates a faint mutton flavor, and the sweetness of vegetables and fruits is reconciled with the fat on the rice grains, which is very greasy and worth a try. The freshly baked sesame white naan cake is soft all around, thin and crispy in the middle, chewing only a faint fragrance of noodles and sesame seeds, the taste is simple and simple, very durable, it is a cheap pasta that is often ordered in the store, it is not so delicious when it is cooled, and the taste of ordering takeout is slightly worse.
Fried noodles with red willow flowers and diced noodles have also been praised by Xinjiang diners. Cut the thicker noodles into small cubes one centimeter long, garlic moss, green and red pepper dices, tomatoes, and mutton are also cut as small as possible, so that the surface area of the ingredients becomes very large, and it is more flavorful than the noodles that Xinjiang people often eat.
There are many dishes on the menu, Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine are basically unpopular, such as Uyghur vermicelli, hot and sour meatballs, family gathering noodles, Xinjiang hodgepodge and other curious dishes, it is recommended not to try them lightly. However, the free air-shipped seasonal fruits from Xinjiang after the meal may be the most impressive food at the end of a meal, much sweeter than the fruits imported from the south.
The façade of the red willow flower is not conspicuous, and a row of Xinjiang young men at the door are roasting naan and lamb skewers, smoky and fragrant, but more ethnic customs than the gorgeous murals of other small shops. When it came to the meal, the loose tables on the first and second floors were very lively. The private rooms can accommodate 6 to 10 people and are simply decorated for daily gatherings of family and friends.
The service of Hongliuhua is relatively outstanding, although the details are not as fine as the origin, and the enthusiasm and responsiveness are better than those of ordinary Xinjiang restaurants, which may be one of the reasons why there are frequent repeat customers.
The red willow flower is far away from the subway entrance, parking is troublesome, the traffic is inconvenient, and it is suitable for the daily food of the surrounding residents.
