Hmm…a dictionary shouldn’t have made that much difference since you’re not allowed to check it before laying down a word.
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did the cheese taste anything like shanklish?
The dictionary is only used for challenges when I play.
We grabbed a sammich from Alidoro in '21 when I had foot surgery near Bryant Park. Great sammich, no hot sauce side.
Next time 
I imagine that you mean, “did the yogurt taste anything like shanklish?” Yes, I’d say that’s not an unfair comparison. Photos, including last night’s kurutob, to come, though they might not be very revealing, yogurt-wise.
Here are two photos of yesterday’s kurutob, including a closeup of fatir smeared with yogurt sauce. Someone commented that the kulcha — the restaurant’s other bread, which was deposited at our table at the beginning of the meal — must have been baked in the morning and had lost a bit of its freshness. The fatir was likely baked in the morning, too, but the bread, now slightly stiffer, was a worthy counterpart to that yogurt sauce.
This was my favorite dish of the evening. We certainly cleaned this platter much more readily than the plov.
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Look forward to hearing about and seeing the rest of the meal!
Right, and part of the game is bluffing with made up words.
inargutational
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I may have gotten away with “ur” once.
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read on Hungry Onion (or Chowhound). To keep it food-related, I should note that “ew” is one common response to plov that has excessive fat from the butt of fat-tailed sheep.
Huh, how unusual. I really thought that you wrote cheese ball in the first reply with pictures … anyway, glad you corrected it. Thanks.
BTW, have you tried any of the Uyghur places in Manhattan? I think there was one by Water St. or John St. downtown, and perhaps one by Macy’s?
Actually, would be glad to hear anyone’s take on those Manhattan outposts.
I’ve stopped in once at Caravan, which reopened early this year at 60 Beaver St.; previously they’d been elsewhere in FiDi. The one dish I tried at this mom-and-pop-and-sister-and-brother restaurant – chüchüre, lamb dumplings in soup – was quite nice.
I really like Tengri Tagh, at 144 West 37th St. even though, perhaps owing to the perceived customer base of the neighborhood, the menu skews toward Chinese. Shown: excellent oil-splashed noodles.
During a group lunch at Laghman Express, at 6201 20th Ave. in Bensonhurst, we were told that two of their cooks had previously worked at Tengri Tagh. For the sunny corner location, the open kitchen, and the service, not to mention the food …
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=61177627%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=%22laghman+express%22&view_all=1
… I’d make this Brooklyn restaurant my first choice of the three.
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No more reports or pics of this meal? C’mon folks!
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Like Dave said: excellent kurutob, okay plov. I was a little disappointed there was no morkovcha (“Korean” carrot salad) on the menu.
Here’s the plov:
Another angle on the kurutob after we began to attack it:
To add more detail — the kebabs were very good. Didn’t get any pics of those (I’m terrible at photographing kebabs). Our kebab choices were lamb, lamb ribs, and beef lulya.
I also failed to get a shot of the salad, or note which salad we got. Anyone?
Loved the complimentary dessert. Not sure what it was, but it was sweet and had a nice creamy/crunchy contrast.
Very nice service, limited English but passable.
Note that there’s a very casual space up front but a hidden fancy ballroom-type space in back, where they seated us. Maybe also a downstairs as well — didn’t see it.
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This was a good meal with several very good dishes and a couple of disappointments for me. We started with samsas, good and appropriately juicy, achi chat a tomato and onion salad with dill, very good and then big juicy manti with a nice fried onion topper, very good
Then they brought out plov which looked good but was only so so in the eating - the rice was dry and it and the carrots had a somewhat scorched flavor. Maybe they just didnt have any fresh on a Thursday afternoon, anyway it did not please me. The kutuboh and kebabs though that followed were excellent especially among the latter the lamb ribs (on the left
The naan was stale, they should have warmed up, the crispy dessert with i think condensed milk between the layers was simple and fresh.
All in all a good effort would go back at a busier hour for plov
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I totally agree. The bread and the plov were disappointing. The rest, very good.
For reference, here are photos of the entire meal, in the order that dishes were served …
kulcha
manti
achichuk
plov
kurutob
samsas
kebabs: beef lula, lamb, and lamb ribs (beef liver was 86’ed)
a pastry-and-custard dessert (comped)
… with the exception of a side salad for the plov and two pots of tea.
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All this looks a lot better than I think it may have been received from your earlier comments
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