We went to Brighton Beach for the concert. It’s hilarious because everything looks stuck in 1987.
But at least I finally ate well at a very Soviet-looking Georgian restaurant. This dish is called shkmeruli:
It’s chicken in creamy garlic sauce. Very delicious. This New York trip has been culinary torture and it’s good finally to eat something that tastes like food.
In other observations, apparently, Soviet people are really into medication. There are Russian-language pharmacies every 80 feet. I don’t remember that about Soviet people but it’s clearly a fact. The only modern-looking hubs in the area are new Ukrainian stores that sell frozen varenyky (Polish people annoyingly call them pierogi).
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