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[travellingscot]

Thanks for the information,i hope it is available in Bulgaria or i may have to settle for the similarly named Stolichno which i found to be a rather vile dark beer.
Hope this helps to keep Russia ahead of Mexico in the league table!

[Kent F. Kruhoeffer]

Thanks, scot47 and travellingscot, for dropping by. Wow; that's 2 'scots' for the price of one!

Speaking of drinks: I tried something new yesterday down at the Volga. They are now producing 'canned' mixed beverages made with fruit juice and real Russian vodka. I only had 3 cans and couldn't see straight afterwards. 7% alcohol and DELICIOUS! less filling too.

Have a Nice Weekend, Boys,
kEnt

PS: travellingscot: With the Russia Forum now at 243 posts vs. Mexico at 219, we're kicking those tortilla-munching, tequilla-drinking Mexicans' butts!

[Guest]

I tried zhin stonikom (gin and tonic) in cans and would not recommend it. One thing I did enjoy - though I think it was the name that did it for me - was a canned alcoholic orangeade called Booze.

My favourite ever Russian food, and I'm hoping someone can help me out with the name, was a kind of fried sweet cottage cheese fritter served with sour cream.

[Steiner]

Hey there, Russia forum. I was in Kazakhstan in 1998, so this thread has brought back some great memories. Nobody's mentioned kumiss yet. It's fermented horse milk and the Kazaks swear by it. The Russians all hate it. It's not bad. Sort of like eating dog--there's nothing wrong with what you're eating, just with the images in your head of what you're eating.

I have to echo the people who've talked about shashlik, pilmeni, and plov. I'm not a big mayo or sour cream fan, so I'd always eat pilmeni with butter. Plov is fantastic unless its sweet plov. That is, plov with raisins added. I hate raisins. I loved the mushroom salads, the dishes made with fried eggplant and tomato, and the homemade ice cream that people sold everywhere.

If you can find it be sure to try bishparmak. It's the Kazaks' national dish--a few layers of thick manhole-cover-sized noodles topped with boiled beef and eaten with the hands. One of my students' grandmother made it for me and I still think about it sometimes.

Now I've got to go get a towel and wipe the drool off my keyboard. Enjoy your cheese everyone. No cheese here in China

[rogan]

djin-tonik, cold, in summer, in half litre cans is great.

even my wife was prepared to drink that outside.

No one has mentioned the stall selling baked potatoes with all kinds of fillings that are found on a few street corners - kartofel.

Cheap and excellent. There are a couple on the way up Tverskaya going away from Red Square in Moscow.
Wash it down with a bottle of beer

Most Sunday lunchtimes I used the one between the Intourist Hotel and the General Post Office.

[coledavis]

Yum. Peroshki are like cornish pasties in general shape and purpose. But the outer shell has more of a doughnut texture. Inside, you get potato or whatever. Best home made; street peroshki aren't always that good. Yes, I'll go with other people about the delights of pelmeni and blinnies. Russian vodka is superior to vodkas sold in the west. Baltika is high class, the product of a new business; the UK pub chain Wetherspoon are selling the lager.

[dajiang]

ah, a old topic back from the dead.

Actually, thinking back of Russian food now, once I had this kind of birdleg. Looked like a chickenleg anyway, but it wasn't.

Called kokorochik or something, i forget.
anyway, it turned out that inside there was minced meat, and there was a little bone added on the end, and the bird skin wrapped around later.

very weird. It tasted great, but it wasn't bird meat. Had a different texture.
To this day I still don't know what creature it was on my plate.
You guys any ideas?

Dajiang

[OlgaLaoshi]

[Seeker of truth]

Someone mentioned kefir a while back and said they didn't like it. The trick to making kefir likeable is to mix some jam in with it. Then it tastes like yogart.

[leroy]

So just eat a yoghurt.

(Sorry- someone had to say it)

[leroy]

I do love it here in Russia but let's face it, Russian cuisine is not up to much, is it?

[jpvanderwerf2001]

Being back in the CIS (now Russia), I'd forgotten how much I used to enjoy the food. I know it doesn't have much "going on", but it's simple and you can add what you want to it. Being a carnivore, and coming from India (where being a carnivore isn't all that, unless you like chicken bones), I'm relishing it.

[leroy]

Caucasian, Central Asian etc stuff is great and something I had never tried til I cam to live in Russia. However, Russian food itself is pretty poor and not very nutritious.

[P-T]

I expect to get howled down for this one, but I like grechka (buckwheat), & eat it most days . It's almost unheard of where I come from.

Pelmini: watch out for the ones that are filled with caramel, not such a good experience when you're expecting meat &/or cheese! The same goes for bliny.

Bliny..ahhhh, if only I could eat THEM every day!

The only times I've ever bothered with soup were when I was a destitute student, & after watching my son play soccer on a filthy winter's day. Russian soups have done nothing to change my attitude, though acroshka is good occasionally.

Toooooo much fish here in Surgut (translates to Fish Town I'm told), however fresh mucsun has my whole-hearted approval. 'Fresh' here means raw ... truly raw, none of that woosy marinating I'm used to!

Like the others, I was shocked that mayo goes with everything, & then even more shocked when I found myself dipping cheeto's into mayo

My personal opinion is that the wine is yuk. It's all sweet, & I'm a 'dry' girl; doesn't stop me drinking it though . The weird thing is, it's almost impossible to get a bottled of chilled white ... even when it's -38C outside! My suggestion that a bottle be placed in the snow for 5-minutes was met with incomprehension.

I fantasise about cooking a meal for my friends, but I know they'd hate whatever I produced .. far too much flavour for their tastebuds sadly! Moot point anyway, I don't have a kitchen where I live, & no-one's brave enough to let me loose in theirs!

[coledavis]

Almost forgot: cutleta (meatballs to you). Very tasty.