New restaurant Yurt brings Kazakhstan’s horsemeat tradition to Hong Kong

New restaurant Yurt brings Kazakhstan’s horsemeat tradition to Hong Kong

From auspicious horse-themed phrases and couplets to whether your luck is in, check out our Year of the Horse 2026 series to discover all you need to know about the coming Lunar New Year. For Yurt’s Kazakh founder, Ali Nuraly, opening a Central Asian restaurant in Hong Kong without horsemeat was not an option. After all, the consumption of horsemeat holds a deep, practical heritage in Central Asia and is rooted in nomadic traditions. For millenn…