Kazakhstan compiles list of top five most popular dishes among foreigners

The Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sports together with domestic tour operators have compiled a list of the top five most popular dishes among foreign visitors. A well-deserved first place went to besbarmak, boiled meat mixed with dough. The next is a puffy fried bread named bauyrsak. Both of the abovementioned dishes have unique recipes that are specific to each region of the country. Shi bauyrsak, one of the flour-based  product varieties, is popular among tourists as a souvenir. A horse meat sausage named kazy ranks third, followed by zhent, a dessert made of millet, sugar, butter, cottage cheese, poppy seed, and sometimes with raisins. The fifth place is given to kyzyl irimshіk, another national sweet made of cottage cheese, which citizens call Kazakh Raffaello. Statistics show that the connoisseurs of the Kazakh cuisine mostly come from Europe and the CIS countries.