Went to Tashkent Market this weekend – on probably the worst day and time I could have picked, a gorgeous almost-80 and sunny saturday afternoon, when all the world seemed to be in there to buy food to take to nearby Washington Sq park.
Very glad I went on a full (okay, overfull) stomach, or I would have gone nuts in there.
I came out with a very circumspect, single samsa – the last one on the tray (I’m sure they replenished soon after, as they seemed to be doing with everything). This thing was at least twice as big as the ones at Laghman and Tengri tagh, with a puff pastry-style shell.
But I’ll be back for lots of things. There are the hot and cold prepared foods – from the salads to plov to very legit looking Chicken Kiev that I haven’t eaten since I was a kid. Gorgeous khachapuri and a diet-busting bread section. And a butcher counter with all the cuts of lamb you can’t get at most places, extending to a smoked fish counter with more range of fish than the usual suspects, and a compact cheese counter with varieties of feta but also sulguni and imeruli.
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