Kitchen supplies & Co.

Today we went out to buy some things. On our list were: scissors, towels, drinking glasses, and some other kitchen supplies. You can really tell that Philipp never used to cook, but always went out to get meals - half of the things you need for simple meals are missing. But my plan is to cook often in order to finally learn how to do it. Philipp's friends always ask me about typical German meals, how to make them and about food prices in Germany. I always have to admit "Ja ne snaju" (= I don't know). They thought I must be kidding in the beginning, but nope - I wasn't.

And by the way, it's really somewhat hard to start cooking here, because there are so many cafés and restaurants where you get decent meals for only a few Som (a main course about 100-300 Som = 2-6 Euros). The food is really good too. So cooking myself, which means buying products, which means finding out their Russian names, which means walking to the supermarket and back (ok, ok, only 5 Minutes...), which means actually cooking on a gas stove (which still scares me), knowing there's a big chance it will taste worse than in a café and cleaning up afterward - hmm, I hope you understand the effort it takes. But so far, I keep to my goal...

Talking about "goal" - who is watching the soccer match tonight? It will only start at 1 am here, but we decided to stay up and go out to see it (another good fact about Kyrgyz cafés: many stay open until late at night). Let's hope it's worth staying up!

Attached you'll find some impressions of our walk through Bishkek today, when we went out to a special home supplies mall: A fountain, which must have been much more colorful in its earlier days and a cute young Kyrgyz couple in the streets.