Samarkand restaurant menu

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   Restaurants in this part of the world either have no menus at all or non-English menus.  This is from my hotel, the Hotel Afrosiyob Grand Restaurant.

   SALADS
Salad "Stolichny"
Salad "Mimosa"
Chakka with radish
Red beet salad
Meat Salad
Italian Salad
Sprots (Sprouts was spelled like this several times--ed.)

   SOUPS
Russian cabbage soup
Shrpa (national soup) (Listed as Sherpa in another menu--ed.)
Rassolnik (A cucumber soup--ed.)

Langett
Shashlyk
Lyulya Kebab
Dulma
Pilaf
Jiz-biz (I was told that this national dish is fried meat in oil.  No one giving the "biz" with "jiz"--ed.)
Manty (STILL NOT IN OED?--ed.)
Fried frankfurties

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