Not very often that I was greeted on arrival at a restaurant by a squeamishly bellowing noise of what-I-hoped-an-animal-not-human-being. A chicken to be martyred for my culinary quest perhaps? A walk through a summer garden of this multi-terrain restaurant Uzbekistan by Arkady Novikov helped demystify the origin of the noise.. ..no fat duck, no obese …
Read this if all you really know about Kazakhstan and Central Asia can be summed up by the word “Borat”. I was never keen to explore the cuisine of this region until my other bib decided to go backpacking the region. I heard, through him via Lonely Planet, that the speciality of Kazakh cuisine was …
You take a bus to Camberwell Road, to this little “boutique” hotel Pasha, and walk down this red-carpetted, dimly lit, narrow corridor. Keep walking and walking, past a Turskish bath, a steam room and sauna, a cosmetic laser surgery room – I am not kidding – a pool table and lots of photos of pretty …