Bishkek - Post Report Question and Answers
What household or grocery items do you wish you had shipped to post?
Ship good toilet paper, paper towel, garbage bags, dryer sheets, odorless detergents. - Jun 2022
Cooking oils, including olive oil and peanut oil. Spices for cooking Thai, Indian, or Mexican food. The usual "homesick" items like peanut butter. Between what is available locally and the embassy commissary, we really can get nearly everything. And Amazon is always there to supplement dry goods as needed. - Aug 2018
Not much, did not even take advantage of our 2500 pound consumables allotment. - Sep 2017
You can get anything through amazon. Just bring a lot of the liquids- like Peanut butter, or your favorite shampoo. You can get everything else here. - Jan 2015
We weren't able to ship anything either time we lived there but it wasn't a problem. I never did find a source for coconut milk, fish sauce, curry paste, or tamarind. There are a couple of small Chinese stores where you can get date/red sugar to use for brown sugar plus your typical Chinese ingredients. The bazaars have a wide variety of food and I shopped almost exclusively at them rather than the few supermarkets. - May 2014
