By Uyghur Times Staff May 9, 2025, 2:00 p.m. ET
A new Uyghur restaurant is making cultural and culinary waves in the college town of Oxford, Ohio. Opened by Daniyar Kudus and his wife, Arman Uyghur Restaurant is introducing Miami University students and local residents to Uyghur cuisine—distinct from Chinese food and deeply rooted in Central Asian traditions.
Located at 15 S. Beech Street, the restaurant offers halal dishes such as hand-pulled laghman noodles, flatbread known as Toqach Nan, lamb and chicken-based stir fries, and yogurt-based items both sweet and savory. Vegetarian options, like meatless laghman, are also on the menu.
“We have 8,000 years of history,” Daniyar told Cincinnati Magazine. “We are a very old nation.” He calls their laghman “the best right now in [the] USA.”
Originally from the Uyghur homeland, the Kudus family fled to the U.S. in 2017 amid widespread repression of Uyghur culture and human rights, which has been recognized as genocide by dozens of Western nations.
Daniyar worked in restaurants in New York and Boston before settling in Ohio last fall to open Arman Uyghur. He hopes to use the restaurant as a bridge between cultures and dreams of launching the first Uyghur-style fast-casual brand in America.
“I want to mix American food and Uyghur food together,” he said. “We want to make good, healthy food for the people here.”
Source: Cincinnati Magazine, by Caroline Backman, May 9, 2025.
