To Ashlan-Fu Alley
it's where you go for cooling noodles in Kyrgyzstan, plus a recipe for this classic Dungan dish
Recently, in preparation for a short BBC radio piece I’m doing next month, I went trawling through my iPhone for old videos I’d recorded of overseas train rides. This meant scrolling past dozens of moving images I’d long forgotten about. Scattered among the assortment were clips taken in 2019 when I spent six months in countries such as Uzbekistan and K…