First taste of "Chinese" food

Trip Start Aug 18, 2010
1
9
38
Trip End Jun 13, 2012


Loading Map
Map your own trip!
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
shadow

Flag of Kyrgyzstan  ,
Saturday, September 11, 2010

After Karakol, I went to a small town by the lake by the name of Tamchy. What's nice about this town is that it's actually right by the lake. Most of the other "lake side" town is actually not within walking distance of the lake. Since the tourist season is passed, I spent the day just walking along the beach, relaxing, listening to the lake and the birds. Unfortuntely most restaurants, except two, are closed as well.

In this town, I met a lady from Moscow who speaks English very well. She was originally from Kyrgyzstan so she came back here every summer. It turned out she's a tea connoiseur. We shared some very good Chinese tea at her place. I also met her friend who is studying some form of Buddhism, trying to find her path in life.

After that, I went back to Bishkek and I got another look at this city. Maybe because the weather was cooler and I was over my jet-lag, it doesn't seem like such a bad city as I first thought. It was nice to stroll around in the small market and some up-scale shops. I met a lot of backpacker in the hostel and we went for Chinese food two nights in a row. There's definitely no comparison with real Chinese food, or even Chinese food from Calgary. Although the pork and eggplant dish (fragrant fish eggplan) was quite good and tasted pretty close to the real thing. All in all, it's a nice change from that past few weeks of eating Kyrgyz food by myself.

Next I'm heading to Osh, where there was the ethnic fighting back in June. I met quite a few travellers who have been there and they said there was no problem at all. So hopefully it will stay that way and I can find someone to go to the Pamir in Tajikistan with me.
Slideshow

Comments

Eric F. on

Hey, where are the pics??!... two new entries... no pics :(

gcmozafer
gcmozafer on

Alas, high-speed internet hasn't quite reached central Asia yet. Hopefully I can find some in the middle-east.

Bob on

Hey Gilbert! Keep the posts coming, they're quite enjoyable to read. Sylvia says, "hi."

Add Comment

Use this image in your site

Copy and paste this html: