Tashkent residents and visitors had “The taste of the Silk Road”


Category: Exhibitions and events, World of Leisure 2014

Tashkent hosted a festival of national food “The Taste of the Silk Road”. The Gastronomic Festival was held as part of the International Tourism Exhibition “World of Leisure 2014”.

The Festival has continued the tradition initiated last year, when the same exhibition included the Pilaf Festival, organized for the first time. This year oshpaz from all over Uzbekistan presented to the jury and visitors various kinds of pilaf: wedding, chayhansky, almond ones, etc.

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The Festival also features participation of chef cooks from Tashkent restaurants who offered everyone to taste not only fragrant rice, but also many other popular dishes of Uzbek cuisine. Crispy samsa, manty, dolma, shurpa – the participants’ tables were laden with all sorts of dishes.

The Festival was attended not only by the metropolitan residents, but also by foreign tourists and journalists, who had an opportunity to get acquainted with the culinary traditions of hospitable Uzbekistan in “The Taste of the Silk Road” Festival.

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