Smoke on the West Campus sidewalk
There's something romantic about smoke wafting from grills on a busy sidewalk. Being literally enveloped by your food while watching and smelling it cooking, waiting with bated breath for your number to be called.
"I also want to do the business like Franklin BBQ, every day open five hours and sold out every day," he says. Ultimately, he wants to balance his work with his devotion to his faith."The BBQ shop is not about money, it is about God, bible, and freedom, such spiritual things," he writes via email. His personal values do not confront you at his sparse three-person operation, which consists of three signs, multiple coolers, two grills, a hearth, and one card reader.
"Charcoal is important, some people want to cook it with an electric oven, it is totally different. But charcoal is very hot and difficult to control the cooking process," he says. "Uyghurs have a strong ability to survive, no matter which city they are in. As long as there is a grill, they can make a living," Duan writes.
Duan opened his first Uyghur skewers BBQ shop, Alimu BBQ, in solidarity in Shanghai about three years ago, after he learned that a Uyghur friend of his could not get hired or maintain employment in Shanghai. Alimu is a Uyghur name, and Duan was not allowed to use it as the name of his shop or hire his Uyghur friend. He opened another shop after Alimu BBQ failed; it was also unsuccessful due to similar issues.
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