Another food trail
 

Here's last night's dinner from the Premier Inn at Glasgow airport.
Teriyaki prawns followed by mushroom and garlic risotto.
I'm off on my travels again!

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You sure live posh, for regular folks. :haha:

have you ever had fried squid??

yuuum!

Yes JB I've had fried squid. It was great.
Tonight's dinner in the Uzbekistan Hotel restaurant:
Herring in a fur coat ( a pickled herring fillet buried under layers of carrot salad, rice and beetroot, decorated with egg mimosa).
Lovely dark brown bread with caraway seeds.
And Tashkent Fillet (beet cutlet beaten thin and wrapped round mushrooms, cheese and herbs, the whole dipped in beaten egg and fried. I had a choice of rice or fries with it so chose rice again.


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Very interesting! A number of Slavic staples (herring, beets, dipping in egg and frying), given a completely different presentation than the Ukrainian and Russian food I'm familiar with. But then, Uzbekistan is much further east (I think the Russian food I've encountered is chiefly from the western part of the country).

Sorry for the long pause. The next night I had vegetable salad (all very finely shredded) and "meat khachapuri". I thought that khachapuri was a sort of risen baked bread roll, but what I got was "lavash" (flat bread) wrapped round a meat filling.

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Sorry about the sideways pictures, maybe a mod can fix it?
I switched hotels on Wednesday due to some post-Soviet-era issues (my first hotel was on the municipal heating system which hadn't been switched on despite a cold snap in the weather. This was just about bearable but when there was a hot water fail as well I decamped to a neighbouring hotel. I much prefer the first hotel which acommodated visiting Central Asian sports teams and suchlike and was used by the Tashkent middle classes for their celebrations. This one is a bland, anodyne, business gaff. But warm.)
The beer bottle contains 500ml, the wine glass is enormous (but they don't fill it right up!).
Bread basket.
Shepherd's salad.
Turkish style grilled meat on a bed of potato straw with roasted veg.

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(More sideways pix :( ).
Coming down with a cold so went for room service dinner yesterday.
Manty (somewhere along the east-to-west line from dim sum to ravioli, south of pelmeni), served with a not-hot chilli sauce and sour cream.
Fruit platter including pomegranate.
A glass of local red wine. Same big glass as yesterday.

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Wonderful photos. The food looks great

That food does look good!

I love it when Dwellars travel.

Yum. :yum:

And this evening, celebrating the end of the week I had a half-litre of Sarbast Green (the strongest at 5% abv). The hotel is owned by a Turkish chain so I had Turkish mezze for starters. Starting from bottom right and going anti-clockwise there was fried cubes of liver, hummous, yoghurty stuff and couscousy stuff. And bread.
Then today's bread basket - the sail sticking up is more like pastry crust, and bescattered with ordinary and black sesame seeds.
Main course was lagman: beef and vegetables in a tomato sauce on thick noodles. The sauce was pretty watery and the meat almost non-existent.

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Can you taste a difference in the black seeds or are they for visual impact?

They didn't taste like sesame at all.

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