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dogbert
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 Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: uzbeki-travel |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
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| How much money would you spend in a day, on average? How much would you recommend for a month? |
Well, when I was there, I was making 140,000 soum a month (under US$140), and |
Isn't the highest denominated bill there 200 sum? I remember exchanging $50 and receiving a three-inch high stack of bills. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| What did you have? I hope the plov. That's the national dish of Uzbekistan. |
Not sure what all we had.. two of my friends who knew the food much better just ordered everything for the table.
There was a pastry-looking one with meat inside that was tastey. Borsch was much more tastier than I imagined it to be as well. Actually there wasn't one thing we had I wouldn't want to eat again. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: Re: uzbeki-travel |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| huffdaddy wrote: |
| ekim wrote: |
| How much money would you spend in a day, on average? How much would you recommend for a month? |
Well, when I was there, I was making 140,000 soum a month (under US$140), and |
Isn't the highest denominated bill there 200 sum? I remember exchanging $50 and receiving a three-inch high stack of bills. |
1000 sum notes. Although those are hard to come by sometimes.
Here's my monthly pay:
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| huffdaddy wrote: |
| What did you have? I hope the plov. That's the national dish of Uzbekistan. |
Not sure what all we had.. two of my friends who knew the food much better just ordered everything for the table.
There was a pastry-looking one with meat inside that was tastey. Borsch was much more tastier than I imagined it to be as well. Actually there wasn't one thing we had I wouldn't want to eat again. |
Plov is yellowish, greasy rice with chunks of meat.
Shashlik are skewers of meat and fat.
Non is round bread.
Lagman is noodle soup.
Pelminy is dumpling soup.
The pastry is a samsa. Do not ever order a samsa in Uzbekistan. At usually 100 soum a pop (about $0.10) they're appealing. But it's where bad meat goes to die. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Shaslik one of the been one of the main ones.. quite good.. but not all that unique or different from a lot of other skewered meat types of things.
Nan bread is quite common.. but always quite good.
Samsa.. good warning on that.. is that true throughout the Stans and Russia as well. That pastry with meat was a good combination though.
By the way.. whats a good potato-oriented dish to order.. something that can be found in Russia or anywhere with Russian influence? I crave potatoes. |
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Samsa.. good warning on that.. is that true throughout the Stans and Russia as well. That pastry with meat was a good combination though. |
Dunno. Only been to Uzbekland. It's usually cheap street food there, so that probably doesn't help. If you found them in a real restaurant, they might actually be good.
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| By the way.. whats a good potato-oriented dish to order.. something that can be found in Russia or anywhere with Russian influence? I crave potatoes. |
kartoshka is potato in Russian. Not sure what a good potato dish is though. Potatoes and onions are the two main veggies of choice in Uzbekland. |
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