An interesting place, in Bukhara there is a collective farm market, where locals go, where you can buy anything, is conditionally divided into two parts: food (but you can also find clothes there) and non-food (clothes, shoes, household goods, utensils, etc.). The market is large, not to be confused with where they take tourists to the Old Town! There are several rows with souvenirs, it is also sometimes called a market. I definitely recommend the market, it may be chaotic at first glance, but you can buy fruit quite cheaply and a bottle of freshly squeezed pomegranate juice 0.5 cost us 100 rubles (in terms of). What else: you can change dollars and rubles, we were in early November 2024. The dollar to the Uzbek sum was 127,000 soums, 1 ruble 127 soums. This operation on the market is not entirely legal, it is proposed to go to a bank or an exchanger, but the exchange rate there is not so attractive, the ruble is exchanged for Uzbek soums in the region of 120. Approach the sellers and ask about the exchange (you do not need to shout at the whole bazaar about your intentions))), they will tell you who to contact. The money changers themselves take a lot of risks, they face a fine and confiscation for the first time, then a prison term of up to 5 years. Therefore, everything is honest, they don't throw it. At least that's what our guide explained to us, also happy to exchange our rubles at the rate of 125))). But - it's up to you to decide where to change your hard-earned possessions, I'm not campaigning, I'm telling you, as they say, in hot pursuit). Let's go back to the market, they advised us a local cafe with very tasty pilaf, starting at 10 a.m. and somewhere before 14 you can eat pilaf there, it's really very tasty, the portions are large, I'll try to attach a photo as a landmark, for two portions of pilaf, two salads, flatbread and tea they gave about 1000 rubles along with with tips, I couldn't eat the whole pilaf - a lot. Looking ahead, I will say that in the end it turned out to be the most delicious pilaf of all tried - in Bukhara, in Samarkand and in Tashkent. So, if you are in Bukhara, be sure to visit the collective farm market!
A very interesting place, I definitely recommend you to visit. Here you can get to know the whole essence of the local flavor. A variety of products, national salinity spices and biscuits.
The market is very colorful!!! Rows of spices, fruits, sweets, rice, cereals are just an oriental fairy tale. Sweets, tea are offered to try, they give a discount if they bargain, and this needs to be done!!! Melons, watermelons, and grapes are sold next to the cars.Everything is very good. There are also storage rows. Who needs it can exchange the amount of money.