Moscow Trends

Hookah is huge here. Practically every restaurant offers it, and it’s not strange at all to get offered it in a private home. Even non-smokers commonly use hookah. So when I was at Kolya’s and he suggested some hookah while we watched a movie, I was not surprised.
Kolya starts preparing the pipe, picking and pulling at tobacco, all crazy-alchemist-like, mixing mint and melon (yummy). Anyhow, as he’s going about his mad-tobacconist ways, I pick up the package to smell that sweetened, fresh, pure tobacco scent. And that's when I see it:


In case you can’t read that label, the brand is “Al Fakher” tobacco.
Say it out loud, now.
Tee-hee.