If you are squeamish about eating horse meat and drinking horse milk, then you should probably give Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia a miss. If though you have the moxie, then you should have a bash at beshbarmak. To cut a long story short, this is boiled horse meat laid atop big fat Chinese style noodles….
A legit Cola Quest find, Retro Cola is a genuinely Kyrgyz-made cola rather than a cheap import from Russia or beyond. And it is readily available throughout the country. Is it any good though? Well…. Click to read about Cola Quest។ What the Retro Cola Retro Cola is made by Abdysh-Ata, one of the largest…
When you visit Yanan it is all about staying in a cave hotel, so I was delighted to find one that looked great and was extremely good value. This was the imaginatively “does what it says in the tin” titled Old Yanan Cave Dwelling Hotel. And while it was a bit out in the boonies…
Oh my days! While I have tried a lot of new colas lately it has been ages since I had a new COKE. Then I randomly bumped into Strawberry Coke while eating goat’s feet of all things. Well, the skinny is that I was bloody lucky as despite being around since 2023 in China, Strawberry…
Every now and again there is a food so damned that I will do some serious travel to eat it. Thus today I traveled on a fast train for 2 hours a distance of 300 km to eat goats feet (麻辣羊蹄 (má là yáng tí)). Yep I shit you not I primarily did this journey…
There’s a dichotomy to China where it wants to paint itself as living in the future (like Japan), so you now get robots doing shit and QR codes to pay for everything. Then you see a Chinese squat toilet and things are put into perspective. It is this that leads perfectly to the Craft Beer…
