According to a well-informed source writing at Index’s “Hova érdemes menni vacsorázni Pesten?” (Where to eat in Budapest?) messageboard, an Uzbek restaurant is set to open in Pesthidegkút, a Budapest suburb not exactly known for its fine dining.
This same source claims to have seen the menu, which features such Central Asian classics as plov (chunks of mutton, shredded red and yellow carrot and rice fried in a huge pot), shashlyk (chunks of meat on a skewer), samsa (the uzbek version of the Indian samosa), shorpa (a meat and vegetable soup), chuchvara (dumplings with a meat stuffing), mashruda (a thick pea soup), manpar (a fiery hot lamb soup) and laghman (home-made noodles served with whatever the cook finds in the yurt).
Uzbek is supposed to be the best Central Asian cuisine, almost rivaling the other great ex-soviet foodie states of Armenia and Georgia. We can’t wait to try the whole thing, and wash it down with a huge glass of kumis, the old nomad favourite made of mare’s milk. Don’t complain about the Ördögárok utca location, at least it’s closer than Tashkent!
