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Folded by hand
Each manti is rolled, filled with lamb and onion and pinched shut by hand, then steamed until the dough turns silk-thin.
01 — The Dastorkon
No traveller leaves a yurt hungry.
On the high pastures of Kyrgyzstan, a guest is a gift. The moment you arrive, a cloth is spread on the floor — the dastorkon — and it fills with bread, tea, dumplings and whatever the herd and the season allow.
Nomad Manti brings that table to Roosevelt. We're a small, family-run kitchen cooking the food we grew up with. Our little building on NE 65th, a former bus stop, now wears the reds, golds and blues of a shyrdak felt carpet — and inside, the kitchen is open, the dough is fresh, and every entrée comes with bread and black tea or a cold drink.
See what's on the cloth today
