FREEFORUM

Hi. I opened a small coffee place near TSU, "Tündük" (yes like the yurt crown, the round hole you look at the sky through). Eight chairs. Espresso machine bought from a hotel that closed during the virus. No name of the street, rules. If you find it you find it.

This thread is for all new places though, not for advertising me. Post your finds.

Finally a username I respect. I will come. Is there kymyz coffee? Don't answer. I want to discover it.

kymyz_and_coffee came today. Asked for kymyz in the coffee. We tried. I will not try again. He was very brave.

It was a historic experiment. History is not always delicious.

Old City: a new café in a courtyard house, carved walnut porch, very pretty, very expensive, 6 som for a tea. Tea! The Herald last week wrote about concrete in the kucheh. This place is not concrete, but I think it pays for concrete somewhere.

During the Diz festival every teahouse in the citadel quarter stays open until 2. Not new, but if you have never sat on a carpet at 1 am after a Kyrgyz documentary with a pot of green tea, you have not lived in Talas.

new taco place NOT in Semiz, in the city centre, the sign just says TACOS!! I went to spy. corn tortillas from my cousin. so actually it is Semiz. we are colonising downtown, one taco at a time

Sorry for off topic: last two weeks we gave free coffee to couriers and students coming back from the square. During the three days with no data the card machine was dead, so I wrote IOUs on napkins. 140 napkins. 131 people came back and paid. Nine I hope are just lazy and not anything else. I keep the napkins.

131 out of 140. That is a better result than the election will have. Keep the napkins, they are history.

i am napkin number 37. i paid on tuesday. tündük is the best place in talas and i won't hear otherwise

Is the teahouse from the True Detective song a real place people can visit? Asking for me. I want to visit. I'm saving up.

It is real and it is now so full of foreigners with phones that the old men who played dominoes there moved two doors down. Go to the dominoes place. Better tea, nobody films you.

New thing: Jasil latte. Tarragon syrup and milk. It is green. Half the students love it, half say it is a crime. Exactly what I wanted.

had the jasil latte. it is a crime. i had two

Nurzhan has new places too, Talas people forget we exist. Former boiler room under a block in Dastgoh is now a café with mor-wave on vinyl. Nurzhan_Nights was there crying into his tea.

I was not crying. It was steam. It was a boiler room, there is steam. Ok I was crying. We played there in 2001. Now it is oat milk.

Somebody came today with a phone and a sticker and asked if we "accept TLPR". I asked what happens to the coffee if the court says no in November. He did not have an answer. He paid in som. Tündük position: som, cash, card, napkin. Not coin.

Napkin is the most stable currency in Irad. Proven in 2023.