This place has lots of potential. It is certainly an interesting concept--a tea room and northwestern Chinese food hybrid. In terms of the latter, their menu has a number of different items, and this time we had the lamb pilaf and silkroad chicken. Both dishes packed a lot of flavor, particularly with the spices typical of Xinjiang cuisine. The lamb pilaf had a lot of meat mixed in, and the side pilahong salad was a nice complement. The nang bread chicken had a nice presentation, almost like a small hard pizza bread on a thin layer of sauce and topped with stir fry. It's quite different from any other Chinese found in Pittsburgh.
I think the pilaf portions could have been a bit larger (and the salad as well), while the chicken in the other dish was just a tad on the dry side, but otherwise both were delectable. I look forward to trying other items like the dumpling soup and Lanzhou noodles, as well as the tea.