Manti (Central Asian dumplings) are stuffed with meat and freshly steamed. Look for these in the bazaar in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.Read more about Kyrgyzstan's sights and cities.
The feature that makes manti in Kashgar different from its dumpling siblings in Central Asia is the amount of pumpkin squash used in the filling. The mound of filling pictured here is from a restaurant named Intizar. Though we indicated that we only wanted the pumpkin filling and not the meat (mostly fat), we got mutton anyway.© www.uncorneredmarket.com
This Uighur man give us the thumbs up for a plate of manti (meat-stuffed Turkic dumplings) at a street-side restaurant in Kashgar, China..© www.uncorneredmarket.com
