Xinjiang Dried Fruit

One thing this province is known for is its dried fruit. And by dried fruit, we mean raisins. LOTS and LOTS of raisins. They come in pale green, dark green, every shade imaginable between light red, brown, and black, and of course fluorescent orange. (Don't eat the fluorescent orange ones by the way - they are not very nice at all.) They also come in everything from little tiny dried ones to huge fat plump ones. After extensive taste testing everyone agreed that the hand-picked big plump green ones from the vendor outside of the Turpan bus station were the absolute best raisins ever. They were also 40 kuai a jin = $5 US/0.5kg which was a little pricey, but ohhh so good.
Despite having a different vendor at every street corner selling this amazing variety of really incredibly yummy raisin, it was with great restraint that we managed to come home with only 4kg worth.

We think they might stretch to last the month if we're careful.