Friday, July 23, 2004
Georgia on my Tongue
Dittrichova 25????
Prague, Czech Republic
On the very top of the list of must do things in Prague was to revisit the Georgian (the Caucasian one, not the American one) restaurant tucked away in a market alley.
One of the earlier times in Prague with a whole gaggle of folks from Belgium visiting, I had visited Tbilisur out of curiosity and had some of the best and cheapest food in Prague. Many nights visions of pelmeni danced around in my head. For those of you who are Georgian food virgins, pelmeni is the Georgian version of the world-wide phenomenon of boiled meat wrapped in dough. A dollop of cream sauce (which should be specified) tops it off. Also on our menu for the day was lagman. This curiously sounds
quite like the Chinese word for hand-made noodle soup: lamian. Many folks further east in the States and beyond may know it for the Japanese or Korean versions: ramen and ramyun respectively. It would not be so strange as Georgia is not so far from Lanzhou or Xinjiang –
some of the supposed birthplaces of lamian. Lagman however is served in a meat broth with bits of bell pepper and meat floating around in it. Excellent stuff. The pelmeni was not as good as the first time I had it but still great. Maybe I've built it up in my mind. Tbilisur surprisingly had few customers but still managed to survive the year since I had last visited. It is tucked away in a food court next to an internet nook and a few other fast food type restaurants. If you are looking for it, wander around the Havelska Market and you'll find it eventaully. In the centre of the food court is a circular bar serving Krusovice – convenient, eh? There were also two small casks of wine in Tbilisur, but I didn't feel so adventurous that day. The service was decent and tolerant of my stumblings through Czech. It looked like there were three generations hanging out there, the oldest of which both cooked and was in charge of the remote control of the TV.
Dittrichova 25????
Prague, Czech Republic
On the very top of the list of must do things in Prague was to revisit the Georgian (the Caucasian one, not the American one) restaurant tucked away in a market alley.
One of the earlier times in Prague with a whole gaggle of folks from Belgium visiting, I had visited Tbilisur out of curiosity and had some of the best and cheapest food in Prague. Many nights visions of pelmeni danced around in my head. For those of you who are Georgian food virgins, pelmeni is the Georgian version of the world-wide phenomenon of boiled meat wrapped in dough. A dollop of cream sauce (which should be specified) tops it off. Also on our menu for the day was lagman. This curiously sounds
quite like the Chinese word for hand-made noodle soup: lamian. Many folks further east in the States and beyond may know it for the Japanese or Korean versions: ramen and ramyun respectively. It would not be so strange as Georgia is not so far from Lanzhou or Xinjiang – some of the supposed birthplaces of lamian. Lagman however is served in a meat broth with bits of bell pepper and meat floating around in it. Excellent stuff. The pelmeni was not as good as the first time I had it but still great. Maybe I've built it up in my mind. Tbilisur surprisingly had few customers but still managed to survive the year since I had last visited. It is tucked away in a food court next to an internet nook and a few other fast food type restaurants. If you are looking for it, wander around the Havelska Market and you'll find it eventaully. In the centre of the food court is a circular bar serving Krusovice – convenient, eh? There were also two small casks of wine in Tbilisur, but I didn't feel so adventurous that day. The service was decent and tolerant of my stumblings through Czech. It looked like there were three generations hanging out there, the oldest of which both cooked and was in charge of the remote control of the TV.
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