The fried eggplant salad and the peppery beef manty are the dishes reviewers keep coming back to, alongside lagman noodle soup, a rotating kabob list, shurpa, plov, and a honey cake for the end of the meal.
It reads less like a novelty and more like the real thing — Central Asian cooking with the Eastern European through-lines that come with it, served without much fuss.
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