Into the World:
The Random Thoughts in My Mind

The Mongolian names for dumplings ( buuz ) and restaurants ( guanz ) sounds conspicuously like their northern Chinese equivalents 包子 ( baozi ) and 館子 ( guanzi ).  Simultaneously the southern Chinese name for the same dumplings 饅頭 ( mantou ) made to both Korea as mandu and Central Asia as manty .  The favorite pulled noodles of Lanzhou 拉麵 ( lamian ) found itself to Central Asia as laghman just as it went to Korea as ramyeon and Japan as ramen .

The center piece of the central park of Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, is a gigantic statue of Lenin, flanked by memorials to Soviet soldiers crowned with the classic hammer and the sickle.  Various government buildings in the city, leftover from their prior usage as regional administrative offices for the Soviet Union, are still marked with obvious Soviet insignias despite obvious attempts by the current Kyrgyz state to hide them under contemporary national symbols like the country's flag.

When the Soviet Union found itself in power, it not only took over some vibrant cities in its territories, it also quickly worked to create brand new ones to suit needs of the planned economies and regional administration.  Villages are expanded into cities based on a consistent set of designs that adhere to Soviet philosophies of how cities should look like and function.  Based on the set of designs, many similar cities are created in the Soviet sphere of influence.