It is Eid, but no one was around tonight, and I do not know why but I just did not fancy what had been left for me to eat. I know that the head is considered a delicacy and an honour and I suspect it had been left for grandad from the family, who is also here tonight, so hopefully he had some, but I just could not manage any of it. So I cooked apples again instead and as this lot were cooked with sugar rather than salt think that they will taste a whole lot better, which might be useful as I might have to live on them over winter as there was nothing else really that I could whisk up.
I also happened to go past the Mosque earlier today just as the Muezzin had finished the call to prayer, but no one was there apart from him as far as I could see so not exactly how it was in Senegal where people would be rushing hither and thither getting their hair done until midnight last night, then going out and buying a sheep, killing it this morning, then cooking it and distributing it all around and eating it for every meal all day. Here at least at the Ashu it has been very low key.
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I know why you didn't fancy the goat's head....it looks disgusting!
ReplyDeleteStrange how low-key it is compared with Senegal - I presume the majority are muslim in Kyrgyzstan?
Yes I am guessing it was more celebrated elsewhere, and I think that they may not use the term Eid Mubarak either as no one responded today, it is muslim here and has been for years, but I have been told that also the pre Islamic religion still has an impact and so it is very low key here. I need to try and out find out more. Hotel full tonight so got some very decent food.
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