The time has come the Walrus said to wrap up this series of five posts of IRKUTSK / ARSHAN.
How better to do this than to sit down at the number one (Trip Advisor) rated restaurant in Arshan, KHAMAR-DABAN, and enjoy yet another fine dinner in Russian Siberia.
Before our drive to Arshan, I'd checked Trip Advisor for restaurant recommendations and so I asked our hosts if we could eat at KHAMAR-DABAN. All three of them were familiar with it and it was also their restaurant of choice in Arshan.
KHAMAR-DABAN
Here we are, we've arrived at ХАМАР-ДАБАН
In the above photo ХАМАР-ДАБАН looks small. It is not small. The restaurant extends to the left into the white building.
Do you all see Patti's reflection in the above window?
Inside we walk.
At this point, looking to the right in the below photo, it still looks pretty small. From my vantage point, I thought that the entire dining area was what I was seeing.
Below can you see Patti (in black with her 4-footed cane to her right) ordering our dinners.
The below photo shows the dining area on the other side of the room beyond the ordering counter in the above two photos.
And then, I turned around and walked into the 'other part' of the dining area.
In these three photos you are seeing the part of ХАМАР-ДАБАН that is in the white building (first photo at the top).
KHAMAR-DABAN is enormous.
In the below photo, our table was the last table.
A very pleasant 'wintering area' for the plants.
"What's that 'Zilla?"
"When are we going to eat?"
"Zilla! I thought you'd never ask."
Here is (Patti and mine) 'our truth' about meals in Russian Siberia.
The Russian Chefs know how-to-do Chicken Caesar Salads!
Never once, in any restaurant we ate in during our five months together in Russian Siberia, did we have a poor Chicken Caesar Salad.
Chicken Caesar Salads became our 'default' choice of dinner where ever we ate.
In the bottom below you see steamed meat dumplings.
These are very popular in Irkutsk and Buryatia.
Also popular are deep fried meat dumplings.
Soup and salad.
That is that for dinner here at KHAMAR-DABAN..
ХАМАР-ДАБАН
Our table was the now empty table in the foreground immediately above.
Now I am going to show a few general photos of Arshan that I snapped at random as we were driving around.
When I wrote Part 1 of 5, I did not include all of the below photos and information. No one is going to return to Part 1 of 5 so I am including it here (a day late and a dollar short).
To get to Arshan you pass through the Tunkinskiy Natsional'nyy Park.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.905089,102.429962,8z
We have come to our final photo of our visit to Arshan.
On our weekend trip, we stayed in the town of Slyudyanka. The name of the hostel that Patti and I stayed in is the Arshan.
In Russian : АРШАН
It just so happens that one of our hosts who took us to Arshan owns the hostel we stayed in.
Talk about being 'connected' !
Still Smiling about one fabulous weekend..
Patti and Cap
How better to do this than to sit down at the number one (Trip Advisor) rated restaurant in Arshan, KHAMAR-DABAN, and enjoy yet another fine dinner in Russian Siberia.
Before our drive to Arshan, I'd checked Trip Advisor for restaurant recommendations and so I asked our hosts if we could eat at KHAMAR-DABAN. All three of them were familiar with it and it was also their restaurant of choice in Arshan.
KHAMAR-DABAN
Here we are, we've arrived at ХАМАР-ДАБАН
In the above photo ХАМАР-ДАБАН looks small. It is not small. The restaurant extends to the left into the white building.
Do you all see Patti's reflection in the above window?
Inside we walk.
At this point, looking to the right in the below photo, it still looks pretty small. From my vantage point, I thought that the entire dining area was what I was seeing.
Below can you see Patti (in black with her 4-footed cane to her right) ordering our dinners.
The below photo shows the dining area on the other side of the room beyond the ordering counter in the above two photos.
And then, I turned around and walked into the 'other part' of the dining area.
In these three photos you are seeing the part of ХАМАР-ДАБАН that is in the white building (first photo at the top).
KHAMAR-DABAN is enormous.
A very pleasant 'wintering area' for the plants.
"What's that 'Zilla?"
"When are we going to eat?"
"Zilla! I thought you'd never ask."
Here is (Patti and mine) 'our truth' about meals in Russian Siberia.
The Russian Chefs know how-to-do Chicken Caesar Salads!
Never once, in any restaurant we ate in during our five months together in Russian Siberia, did we have a poor Chicken Caesar Salad.
Chicken Caesar Salads became our 'default' choice of dinner where ever we ate.
In the bottom below you see steamed meat dumplings.
Also popular are deep fried meat dumplings.
Soup and salad.
That is that for dinner here at KHAMAR-DABAN..
ХАМАР-ДАБАН
Our table was the now empty table in the foreground immediately above.
Now I am going to show a few general photos of Arshan that I snapped at random as we were driving around.
When I wrote Part 1 of 5, I did not include all of the below photos and information. No one is going to return to Part 1 of 5 so I am including it here (a day late and a dollar short).
To get to Arshan you pass through the Tunkinskiy Natsional'nyy Park.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.905089,102.429962,8z
We have come to our final photo of our visit to Arshan.
On our weekend trip, we stayed in the town of Slyudyanka. The name of the hostel that Patti and I stayed in is the Arshan.
In Russian : АРШАН
It just so happens that one of our hosts who took us to Arshan owns the hostel we stayed in.
Talk about being 'connected' !
Still Smiling about one fabulous weekend..
Patti and Cap
This was delightful to see again and be reminded of our wonderful meal at the Khaman-Daban restaurant. It was a relief to see the 'other huge dining area' we were able to enjoy, and it was empty except for one table when we went in there .. then, it filled up! The whole Arshan experience was GREAT! Smiles and hugs. Patti
ReplyDeleteYes Arshan was great and these posts have been FUN to put together. Thanks for being along for the trip. I think that after we got back to Slyudyanka, you and Edward and Sergey drove, in the dark of night, back to Irkutsk. I overnighted in Slyudyanka at Edward's hostel and took the train back Monday afternoon. Much Love .. Cap
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