Greeting from Moscow! I think it's safe to say my first couchsurfing experience was a good one. Evgeniy, my host, was fantastic. An experience tourists couldn't get. Over the course of my stay he introduced me to Russian food. We ate dried fish and beer the first night I was in Moscow, which is definitely not the cleanest snack, but quite tasty, if you're fine with ripping the fish head off, gutting it with your fingers! The fish is a little salty by itself but combined with a few beers, it's pretty tasty. He also made several different Russian soups during my stay, and gave me a recipe. Friday night we had Russian potatoes, fish and pickles while doing several shots of vodka, and Saturday we had pilmeni, a Russian dish, dumplings which are pretty much
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