Food

Tour program is always created with paying attention to wishes and desires of guests, as we are looking forward for meeting of expectations of all. Cuisine in Kyrgyzstan is wide, the range is great so that mainly based on nomadic origin. For trying of all the cuisines it is required to take rented cars and get to any distant part of Kyrgyzstan. As there are a lot of nations living here, cuisine is influenced by Turks, Persians, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Russian, and Europeans. At the same time people here are found of celebrating events in restaurants and due to it we have a wide choice of places which can visited during the tour. We have decided to show main dishes widely used in the country:

Bread
Bread is the very important part in the life of Kyrgyzstan as people here can’t live without bread. Bread is respected here, mainly not cut but torn with hands.  It is prohibited to put bread upside down. Before starting a meal people used to wash hands and say words of blessing for having an opportunity to eat delicious food. Bread is eaten with hands, and when it is given with beshbarmak, for example all of the people sit close to each other for discussing important things. Bread or may be lepyoshka is cooked with onions.

Chuchuk
As guests travel along the country they can try delicacies as chulchuk. Chulchuk is a set for celebrations as birthday or tois. In case you want to cook it you are required such products as kazy kabyrga (ribs), ulcers, salt, paprika, black pepper, onion, garlic, cumin and bay leaf with species.

Kuurdak
Roast beef or lamb cooked with potatoes and onions is a dish known to be Kuurdak. When locals were nomads in the past, they saw this dish easy and delicious for cooking. Exclusive taste is made by stones used for cooking.

Shorpo
Meat, herbs and vegetables show us a soup Shorpo. It is widely used in the east, but in Kyrgyzstan this dish is also well-known and loved. When foreigners eat it during the tour, they add red pepper, which is considered to make a taste more unique and exclusive.

Plov
Plov is a famous dish in many countries, and there are different recipes for cooking. Plov is basically an Asian dish which is always on tables of tois and celebrations, sad meetings like funerals. It is also often cooked by women at homes.

Samsa
As a trip is going on in the very mountains, there can be a need to have a meal quickly and delicious, so in this case samsa is our decision. Samsa is a pie with meat, onions and species. Samsa is made in tandoor, a special bake of stones.

Manty
Manty is a famous dish made also for celebrations and at homes, eaten with hands. They resemble big pelmeni or khinkali. There is a special dish for them to be cooked steamed. They are made from dough and meat inside.

Lagman
Central Asia is mostly known for lagman, a meal consisting of meat, vegetable and noodles. Noodles can be bought, but mostly in traditional Kyrgyz families it is made with hands. Mainly lagman is given in the view of noddle cooked in a great amount of water with vegetables eggplant, beans, radishes, onions, carrots.

Ashlyam – Fu
When you are in Karakol, it is better to try the dish which makes the city so famous - Ashlyam – Fu. This dish is also said to be the best only in Karakol. The origin of the dish takes noodles, starch, and sauce, vegetables. Basically the meal is said to be of Dungan roots. Prepare for the dish to be cold served. When it is summertime Ashlyam – Fu is perfect. It consists of noodles, starch, and sauce, vegetables.

Shashlyk
Shashlyk is a dish cooked in different cultures. It is alike kebab, with the meat to be of big pieces being cooked on fire. On visiting café or restaurant shashlyk will be cooked on mangal. Meat for the meal is marinated before cooking. Basically the origin of it also seen in Turkic culture.

Dymlyama
For cooking of this meal you need a big dish, mixing various ingredients, when its being stirred. It is a lazy way of cooking the dish, ingredients are lamb meat, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers.

Ganfan
Ganfan is something like lagman, it is also cooked also the same way. The dish takes mainly Eastern origin. Ganfan is the meal of vegetables, spices, noodles. Unlike lagman there is no water here, with short noodles.

Borsch
As our country is multinational, we have various dishes famous. Borsch is a famous dish, having Russian, Slavic origin. Even in Kyrgyz families it can be cooked, as relations between nations are close, and dishes of both sides have assimilated in both ways. The dish consists of beef, vegetables, with the main constituent as red beet, for color and taste.

Cutlets
Cutlets are used but many different religions and nationalities, just ways of cooking can change. This meal can be ordered in restaurants for trying various customs as of French cuisine.  The name is basically came from this language – côtelette. Minced meat for cutlets can be different - chicken, turkey and beef, with potatoes, bread, onion and egg.

Kurut
Kurut is not the main dish but a snack, traditional snack of the Kyrgyz people. They are in like balls, with a taste to be salty, creamy, sweet or sour, even spicy.

Mampar
Central Asia people prefer soup mampar as well. This soup is made with inions and potatoes. It is widely used as to be the decoration of a table, and because the way of cooking is easy.

Pelmeni
Pelmeni is famous dish of the Russian people, as well as of all Slavic people. At the same time we can say that pelmeni have been transferred to the range of meals of the Kyrgyz people. This are small pieces of dough with meat inside then boiled in the water. Pelmeni can be served with ketchup, mayonnaise. It is possible to travel here try different dishes of different cultures connected with each other.