National costumes and dishes of eastern countries

CUISINE IN EASTERN COUNTRIES
The Middle East is a group of countries (see Middle Eastern Countries, below) that range from North Africa through Asia. You will find that many dishes have the same name across these Middle Eastern countries, yet they might taste entirely different based on the region.
They can contain different herbs and spices (some with lamb and others with beef) or with cheeses instead of meat.
These differences are driven by the availability of native ingredients, what was traded in the region and what was offered at the marketplace in the past.
In essence, Middle Eastern food today is a culinary collage defined by its past.
Ingredients That Characterize Middle Eastern Food

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  Olives, chickpeas, lentils, beans, and vegetables are an important part of the cuisine of most Middle Eastern countries sometimes to the exclusion of meat.
  
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  When meat is eaten, it is chicken, beef and lamb often skewered and grilled as kebabs. Yogurt and cheeses, along with legumes, make up the rest of the protein content of the diet.
  
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  Pork and alcohol are prohibited in many of the countries because of religious dietary laws.
  
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  Spices and herbs figure prominently and dishes are often strongly flavored with cumin, caraway, nutmeg, turmeric, mint, parsley and others.
  
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  Flatbreads and pita in one form or another are two of the most popular types of bread served in many of the countries and used variously to wrap food in or pick food up with.
  
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  Strong, thick Turkish coffee and tea are the most popular beverages.
  

TASHKENT OLD AND NEW
Tashkent is a city on border of agricultural oases of Central Asia and boundless Eurasian steppes. It exists already more than two thousand years. In an extreme antiquity when this city still was known as Chach, it was not very large and on history value considerably conceded to more southern neighbors - to Samarkand and Bukhara. But archeologists today confidently identify in territory of modern capital of Republic of Uzbekistan some significant archeological objects, that are ancestors of Tashkent. And the kept monuments of ancient architecture have venerable age. Thus, well-known underground chilla-khana at Zain ad-din bobo mausoleum is constructed in XII century. But a great amount of ancient monuments of Tashkent which can be seen today, concern to XVI century when Tashkent became capital of one of the big state appendages of Sheibanid and ruled by authoritative branch of this dynasty.
Other group of interesting monuments of a history and architecture are the kept constructions of new city created by talented engineers of the end XIX - the beginning of XX centuries for public institutions of an administrative center of the Turkistan territory formed in Central Asia after a conquering these grounds by Russian empires.