Food has been a ongoing problem. Not the eating food or the flavor, but the getting.

Most of the restaurants here are kebab, shwarma, pastries, Chinese, Mexican, American, or appear too expensive. I came to try Russian food, not KFC or Burger King. Seriously, how are there more KFC’s here than all of Florida? (The state tore down the one next to the house, so we don’t have a KFC in town anymore, not that I went there often.)

If I find a reasonable priced Russian restaurant, I still have the problem of ordering, few have Romanized menus, and so few people understand English.

I did stop at a small café and pointed to a savory dish, label says 145₽, but the total was 382₽, the ticket says 1446.97*0.264kg, none of those numbers is 145. Did I get overcharged? Did they put the wrong price on the label? If so, that is 1447₽ per kg, not 1450.

Even going into the supermarket, many brands are the exact same as at home. Perhaps they have more flavor variations, Lays Chips has lobster, crab, and shrimp cocktail flavors. I did get a bag of Lay’s crab, it tasted like you had made a great dish, but then added crab to it. Not terrible, just would have been better without.

I have a limited kitchen setups and no freezer, so in purchasing some foods, I wouldn’t be able to make.

The kitchens also have signs about no smelly foods, fish in particular.

An Uber customer told me that to get an Irish stew, in Ireland, you have to go to a pub, not a restaurant. Perhaps something similar is going on here. Odd, now that I think about it, I don’t think Ive seen a Russian bar. Plenty of liquor shops, but no bars.