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On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 21:04:35 +0000 (UTC), Meg Worley 
<meg@steam.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Uzbekistan isn't just a country -- it's a restaurant! The one we ate 
> at last night, to be precise, on the corner of Sunset and La Brea.

	It has been in that strip mall for more years than many
of its neighbours.

>
> I'd like to think that the clientele at Uzbekistan are refugees 
> from the inhuman regime of Islam "Boil the People!" Karimov, but it 
> looked more like a mobster hangout to me.  No matter -- but still.

	There's a reason it looks like a mobster hangout, it's a
mobster hangout.

	That being said, I ate their once with a buddy who used
to shoot a machine gun for the Taliba... er Mujahadeen freedom
fighters, in the days when they were good guys and our best
friends. He told me that back in the days of the Evil Empire,
that was before the Axis of Evil, Moscow Aparatchiks (and no
doubt mobsters), favoured Uzbek food.

	I hear that in Moscow these days sushi is the fave of
mobsters and aparatch... er politicians.
>
> Rule number one when eating Uzbeki: order less. No, seriously, 
> whatever you're eyeing on the menu, halve it. Not only are portions 
> huge (a "cup" of soup is 12oz, a "bowl" a bit over a pint), but 
> the meal starts out with a giant loaf of delicious bread and 
> cheese spread. And whatever's on the table, you're going to want 
> to eat. 

	What they have no idea about at that restaurant is
"portion control", if you are an eater with no self control, I
highly reccomend this place.

>
> I had solianka (one of my favorite soups ever -- and it's even 
> better here than at Traktir, near Santa Monica and Fairfax), and 
> the Resident Lurker had some other funky soup, which he reports 
> was saved by its wonderful dumplings.

	They do good dumplings there.

>
> For our appetizers, we had blini with caviar (hard to beat that -- and
> yes, I know that Uzbekistan doesn't border on the Caspian, but I
> have it on good authority that they eat a lot of caviar) parmuda 
> (very much like knishes), and bugina, a roast pork loin. The bugina 
> was supposed to be served with horseradish but wasn't -- and it was 
> both dry and dull. Once Himself asked for the horseradish, though, 
> it was much improved: I'd say it went from a 4 to a 8 on a scale of 10.

	Pork loin certainly doesn't seem very Islamic. But, you
gotta feed the comrades what they desire.

	Time for me to visit again. Although the restaurant is in
a dodgy neighbourhood, you can get in and out with little grief.


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