The food in Uzekistan has been very tasty. Bread is always fresh and served with every meal.
Breakfast is a buffet at whatever hotel we are staying at.
For lunches we have mostly been snacking on fresh fruit (the apricots are amazing), nuts and bread. One day we went out for lunch at a local cafe. Much to our delight, it was a cafeteria. Given that our Uzbek is limited to hello and thank you, we found it easy to communicate our had a selection choices with pointing and nodding.
We had a selection of salads, water and bread. For main Jackie had “moo” with barley while Steve had chicken balls with barley. The bill was 26,000 Som or US$4
Although this is a Muslim country alcohol is available and consumption is legal. Samarkand is the wine making center so we sampled a bottle of red with dinner one night. (US$7/bottle). It was a light red that worked well with the heat.
The local beer is Pulsar(US$1.25) , made in the Czech style.
Our favourite meal in Uzbek was a dinner in a garden with our driver, Daron and our guide Ayzat. This is where we sampled the Samarkand Red wine
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