Laghman (food)
Laghman, leghmen, laghmen, lagman, or leghman is a dish of meat, vegetables and pulled noodles from Uyghur cuisine. In Chinese, the noodle is known as latiaozi or bànmiàn.
China claims that läghmän "is a loanword from the Chinese lamian and appears to be an adaptation of Northern Chinese noodle dishes ," although its taste and preparation are distinctly Uyghur. It is also a traditional dish of the Dungan people who call the dish bànmiàn.
It is especially well-known in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where it is considered a national dish of the local Uyghur and Dungan ethnic minorities. It is also common in Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northeastern Afghanistan, and parts of northern Pakistan. Crimean Tatar cuisine also adopted lagman from Uzbek culture.