Postcard from Bishkek

Food is a question of taste – as the saying goes: “One man’s meat is another man’s poison”. Don’t expect the food in Kyrgyzstan to be the highlight of your trip – but that does not mean that you have landed up in a culinary wasteland!

Audrey Hepburn may have enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany’s but recently I have started enjoying “Breakfast at Begemot”. Breakfast is the first meal of the day and, in English, the word is a composite bringing together the two words “break” and “fast” and accurately so it describes the meal that “breaks the fast” since the previous [...]