Cultural codes of Tbilisi
Short notes on food, customs, language and everyday life in Tbilisi, for someone who has just arrived. Sorted A to Z within each licence.
Draft: our own text, not yet checked by a resident.
For Licence AM
16 cultural codes- Cards, cash and tips
- A city of hills and stairs
- Greeting people
- How to eat adjaruli
- How to eat khinkali
- Imeruli, the round khachapuri
- Khinkali by the piece
- Khinkali without meat
- Lari and tetri
- Marshrutka, the city minibus
- The Mtkvari, or the Kura
- Supra and the tamada
- Taking a taxi
- Two metro lines
- Underground crossings
- When a host insists
For Licence A
24 cultural codes- Badrijani, the eggplant rolls
- Churchkhela, nuts on a string
- City and mountain khinkali
- Counting in twenties
- The Georgian alphabet
- Italian courtyards
- Kharcho, the beef and rice soup
- Lobiani, the bean bread
- Matsoni, the thick sour milk
- Megruli, cheese inside and on top
- Mtsvadi on vine embers
- Painted entrance halls of Sololaki
- Pkhali, vegetables with walnut paste
- Qvevri, the clay wine jar
- Rtveli, the grape harvest
- Shoti and the tone oven
- Sulguni, the cheese in brine
- Summer in Tbilisi
- Tarkhuna, the green tarragon drink
- Tbilisi’s autumn festival
- Tkemali, the sour plum sauce
- Trains to Batumi
- Walnuts in Georgian food
- Wooden balconies of Old Tbilisi
For Licence B
18 cultural codes- Deda and mama, mother and father
- Deda Ena, the school primer
- Elarji, corn porridge with cheese
- Fixed holidays of the year
- Georgian folk dances
- Gozinaki, the New Year sweet
- How many folds on a khinkali
- Kinto, the street traders of old Tiflis
- Mchadi, the corn bread
- Minankari, Georgian enamel
- Mravalzhamieri, the long-life song
- Polyphonic singing and UNESCO
- Tbilisi State University
- Three Georgian scripts
- Tiflis, Tpilisi and Tbilisi
- Tklapi, the fruit leather
- Vazha-Pshavela Avenue
- Vazisubani, the vine quarter