I had a slow day on Tuesday, walking around, communicating by email with friends from the region and just walking around my neighborhood. I'm fascinated by the variety of ethnic faces. There are many kinds of people here and all are wonderful to people-watch.
Tuesday evening, Roman, Maim and I went to an ethnic Kyrgyz traditional restaurant. It was crowded with people enjoying life and celebrations. We were celebrating Roman. He is a great guy and sometimes under-appreciated. The restaurant was large and lively with a dance floor, already crowded with revelers.
We looked at the menu for a long time and then decided. We ordered 300ml of vodka, enough to have three rounds of toasts in the course of our meal. For appetizers we had a selection of sushi, and what's called "vodka appetizers". The vodka appetizers were two kinds: think round sections of horse intestines and horse meat sausage (a ring of half horse meat, half horse fat). We cleared the appetizers and drank our first toast. Then we had a salad and our separate dishes: Maxim got a steak, it was a porterhouse, Roman got salmon, and I got a Kyrgyz dish that was kind of like lo mein. We drank a second toast. Through the whole meal the music was bright and lively and we were all kind of dancing in our seats. We finished the meal with a kind of chocolate cake with walnuts, not very sweet, and tea or coffee and had our third and final toast.
Roman was the man of the hour and got to make decrees. It was a lot of fun.
We left the restaurant after 11 and once again, I was up till well after midnight.
Tuesday evening, Roman, Maim and I went to an ethnic Kyrgyz traditional restaurant. It was crowded with people enjoying life and celebrations. We were celebrating Roman. He is a great guy and sometimes under-appreciated. The restaurant was large and lively with a dance floor, already crowded with revelers.
We looked at the menu for a long time and then decided. We ordered 300ml of vodka, enough to have three rounds of toasts in the course of our meal. For appetizers we had a selection of sushi, and what's called "vodka appetizers". The vodka appetizers were two kinds: think round sections of horse intestines and horse meat sausage (a ring of half horse meat, half horse fat). We cleared the appetizers and drank our first toast. Then we had a salad and our separate dishes: Maxim got a steak, it was a porterhouse, Roman got salmon, and I got a Kyrgyz dish that was kind of like lo mein. We drank a second toast. Through the whole meal the music was bright and lively and we were all kind of dancing in our seats. We finished the meal with a kind of chocolate cake with walnuts, not very sweet, and tea or coffee and had our third and final toast.
Roman was the man of the hour and got to make decrees. It was a lot of fun.
We left the restaurant after 11 and once again, I was up till well after midnight.
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