Ташкент, Узбекистан

location: Tashkent's Main Trainstation
rating:
3 stars
restaurant type:
street kiosk
perozhki variety:
potato
price:
Priced for the decadent traveller
remarks:

These toothsome wads, although delivered with alacrity and grace in the form of a barely perceptible smile  and a plastic bag, were altogether far too miniscule to heft up their 400 Som price tag, but when the mouth,dessicated from the noisome air of a long train ride, is revived with the crisp ooze of such a potato bun, nary a citizen will debate the price. 

Самарканд, Узбекистан

location: Samarkand's Registan Bazaar
rating:
3 stars
restaurant type:
street kiosk
perozhki variety:
potato
price:
economy
remarks:
Perozhki here were especailly tasty after the price of 200 Som (10 cents) had been pronounced. As Bazaar traffic in this quarter is particularly simmering and alimentary, kiosk venders must cater to the the demand of these peregrine and epicurean consumers. A mere traveler through the world of perozhki flavors, I was able to disembark, gently, at this hostelry of fluffy parboiled potatoes covered with a roof of grease-weathered dough and a tomato sauce made of only slightly bruised tomatoes, making the taste all the sweeter, as it fought with the grease on my palate and ultimately found purchase at the welcome mat of my taste buds.   

Ашгабат, туркменистан

location: 2011 Koce  Azadi St.
rating:
3 stars
restaurant type:
street kiosk
perozhki variety:
potato
price:
economy
remarks:
perozhkis here were slightly less piquant than usual, with more of a cereal flavor, as if the flour had also been mixed with the potato filling, which, wouldn't have been surprising as I'm sure it'd make for a cheaper filling. The finish was a redeemable sweetness, making these tough day-old nuggets more ideal as a breakfast perozhki rather than as something to assuage one's recumbent afternoon hunger spells. 

Baku, Azerbaijan

location:
Some Supermarket near Vidadi St.
rating:
3 stars
restaurant type:
street kiosk
perozhki variety:
potato
price:
economy
remarks:
Perozhki here slightly damp and flaccid as though it had been left under a carpet all day. Potato filling nearly non-existent, really more like eating a bread roll stomped on by a wet boot. Tried putting a green pepper in it to little avail as far as taste concerned.


location:
Inside Continental Supermarket 68Nizami st.
rating:
3 stars
restaurant type:
street kiosk
perozhki variety:
potato
price:
economy
remarks:

As perozhki was eaten far from restaurant location I was initially dismayed to find, what I thought to be a hotdog concealed within the innocuous lump of fried dough, but discovered, after ripping the sock-like snack in half, to find that the potato filling had merely been reduced to a dense cylinder, probably though pressure and time, the same events that often combine to make diamonds from coal. The potato filling was studded with what might have been dill but the green flecks did not produce enough conclusive flavor for proper substantiation.  

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