Upscale beef language
Travels with David: Asia, Africa and The Balkans

Upscale beef language

2024-09-12

After Turkish investors backed out, the first international hotel in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek officially became a “Joint Kyrgyz-Malaysian Venture.” Because English is widely spoken in Malaysia, you’d expect the new foreign partner to have tidied up the English grammar and spelling on the hotel’s printed materials. No way. The room service menu featured stewen rice, humburger and domestics pie.  Or you could go downstairs to the restaurant for “beef language.”

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