Eating out in the Pamirs

We made our way along the border of Afghanistan stopping in Ishkashin for lunch and fuel. There are only four meals you will get everywhere in the Pamirs; Shorpo (a soup, sometimes with lamb or goat meat), Plov (a rice dish with meat), Manty (big dunplings, sometimes in a broth) and Borsch (a vegetable soup). Most of the time they were served with a flat bread and tea. There are other meals to have on rare occasions but why bother when those four were so tasty everywhere we went.