Restaurateur serves up Uygur culinary culture to Hangzhou residents

"As long as I can afford their salaries, I will accept those Uygur people who come to ask for a job," he said. "I hope they can regard the restaurant as another home."

Originally from Awati county, Aksu, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Abdurehim left his hometown in 2000, hoping to broaden the outside market for its produce.

"My parents are farmers in my hometown, growing fruit. I left Awati to search for sales channels for our fruit after I graduated from college," he said.