Here we are, in Silk Road Choyhona. Uzbek Cuisine!
We're sitting here in this private lounge looking-like area, sort of like a bed, sort of like a sofa,
surrounded by colorful cushions, it feels so cozy
getting ready to order!
Can we get the eggplant salad? Is that a popular one?
yes, yes, yes
Plov
Good choice
Isn't that the traditional or national dish?
Yes, yeah that's right. It's the most popular.
Most popular? That's awesome!
Chicken kebab
Shurpa soup? Lamb soup?
OK, we'll get a cup of that. A small one and we'll share.
Is there anything else you'd recommend us to try? A really popular dish...
Manti
Manti? OK we'll get the steamed Manti then.
Yeah that's it for now. Thank you so much!
Just ordered our meals.
When we asked our server what he'd recommend us to get for our drink
He recommended us this Uzbek traditional and popular fruity drink
It's basically a big hot pot of water boiled with berries and strawberries and some sugar
and a little bit of honey I suspect.
so I'm going to take my first sip
Ohhh this is so fresh it's just perfect for the summer
It's pretty sweet, very fruity, it's just a berry juice mixed with water with some sugar
this is perfect for any meal l'd say.
We got the eggplant salad to start with
it's basically thin slices of eggplant
stuffed with tomatoes, peppers
and I think there might be some mushrooms and some white yogurt sauce
And this is a cold salad, eaten cold
I'm gonna take my first bite
Mmm..
The eggplant is really chewy
And the sourness I think comes from the yogurt
I also had a little bit of the chopped bell pepper.
It's nice and sweet and sour at the same time
This is awesome as an appetizer!
Our server also recommended us this Shurpa soup.
This is a popular and also a national dish in Uzbekistan
The mix of vegetables in this Shurpa soup
has lot of chick peas, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, celeries
Mmm...this is just really healthy.
We've gotta try this soup.
This is the lamb in the soup... it's like fall-off-the-bone tender...
Look at this...
It actually has bone in here too and look at the fat in the back
And it's so tender that I can just use the fork to sort of separate this
It's really tender
okay, I don't think I can separate that collagen part in the middle,
but let me just take a bite
Mmm...
The lamb bone just came right off of my mouth
I didn't have to cut with a knife
oh this is so good...
we should have gotten a…
This is a cup size, we should've gotten a bowl size
This is called Plov.
And this is Uzbekistan's national, signature dish
It's a very commonly cooked dish,
People eat at home, outside in a restaurant
And look at this lamb, it's so tender...
this almost tastes like the soup, but it's the dry version of it...
The carrot is so soft, it just melts in your mouth
The lamb is so tender, peppery
Oh this is so good
Literally, this is just like the dry version, with rice version of the soup
Oh I'm peeling off the garlic… it looks like it just..
It just melted in there… it's almost like butter!
The garlic is not as strong as it looks
Cause it looks like you're taking a whole clove of garlic in your mouth
It's not as strong as that
It's so well seasoned
Manti is basically dumpling stuffed with meat
and you can have any kind of meat
And I think there's an option of pumpkin as well
So we got the beef here mixed with onions
Something that's special about this dish is that
It's eaten with yogurt sauce on the side
It's not eaten alone
not with soy sauce like the Chinese style
This is with a yogurt sauce
So I'm gonna take my first bite
Wow look at this Manti
It's stuffed with meat and onions!
The beef is very chewy…
It might be seasoned with some cumin seasoning inside
It goes pretty well with the yogurt sauce
I'm pretty surprised!
Yeah the yogurt sauce is pretty light
It just like gives a slight sourness to the dumpling
It's perfect!
Look at this chicken kebab
I don't think I've eaten a kebab like that
Hmm…
Wow...
Very nicely grilled, lots of pepper
And I can taste a little bit of sourness already
Just loving how tender all this meat is
Now dip it with the tomato sauce
The tomato sauce is nice and cold
Added a little bit more extra sourness to it
Because of the sourness in a lot of their seasoning like
Yogurt sauce,
Cumin,
Tomato sauce
It really makes you want to keep eating because of the sourness
Have you ever have Uzbek food?
Or have you seen Uzbek food in your area?
Look how I'm chilling
Just sitting here, taking our time
If you've never been here,
Check this place out
Gaithersburg, Maryland
It's called Silk Road Choyhona
Choyhona basically means a tea room or like a café
So this is Silk Road Café with authentic and delicious Uzbek cuisine
We ate this!
The Plov with lamb and rice and the whole garlic on top
We totally ate this one
Oh we ate this Manti! Dumpling!
See! National dish!
And I think this is baklava
We've had so many different baklavas
from Turkish baklava to Ethiopian baklava
And then I didn't know that Uzbekistans also eat baklava
Silk Road Choyhona restaurant
Highly recommended!
It was our first time too
And just by trying a new world cuisine,
You'll learn a little bit more about the culture, about their food
About their people
Which is pretty awesome!
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