Registan

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

🌏 Origin: Uzbekistan is a double landlocked country in Central Asia with a cuisine rich on mutton, rice, and bread. The Uzbek signature dish is pilaf/plov — a rice dish with onions, grated carrots, raisins chickpeas, mutton and sometimes topped with a hard cooked egg. Due to a forced relocation of Koreans in 1937 Soviet Union, Uzbek cuisine has acquired some Korean influence, and dishes are sometimes complimented with kimchi.

😋 Location: Named after the capital, @registan_oslo is the only restaurant in Oslo (perhaps in Norway) that serves Uzbeki food in Gamlebyen. Definitely worth a visit!

Everything is made in-house. They sometimes have “Manty”, a traditional steamed dumplings for appetizers. We opted to try the traditional somosa/samsa — flaky pastry dough filled with minced lamb and vegetables. For mains we had a huge plov. Unfortunately we were so full we couldn’t have the homemade cakes, this time around.

We visited on 5th May 2023.

🍹 Drinks: Non-alcohol drinks only, and teas are served in colorful pots.

💸 Value: 45 kr for somsas, 185 kr for plov, 199 kr for manty, and 70 kr for a cake slice.