The city’s sole Central Asian restaurant, Yurt enters a new phase with the unveiling of its discovery menu (HKD750 pp.), seven courses challenging palates with imported ingredients and recipes from the Stans.
Funky, fermented flavours are pronounced with the starters of chalop, made with fermented Kazakh qurt cheese, radish, chickpeas, and dill, and jigar, a strong fatty beef pâté that’s served with baursak (fried dough) and pomegranate jam to bring balance.
In the fashion of Central Asia and Yurt’s bold programming, horse steak is offered as a main course option, served well done with cucumber, onion, and baked potato – the way the equine is traditionally eaten across the steppe.
An Uzbek dessert of khorezm with melon, irimshik sweet cheese, millet, and halva ice cream is one of two options to round out the meal, with the asyq chocolates with tary tea for the petits fours.
Yurt, G/F, 32 Elgin Street, Soho, Central, 5939 6413, book here
