In Search Of Fabric At Tashkent's Chorsu Market

Chorsu Bazaar is the main place in Tashkent for buying food. Endless vendors for your veg, meat, eggs, ingredients. Hellotalalay has partaken.

It's also a place for household goods, school supplies, shoes and fabric. If it can be carried, chances are you can find it at Chorsu bazaar. Let's go look at cloth.

The clothing section is a whole separate area, full of shops selling everything one needs for a nice outfit.

Getting down to business. A merchant shows off some vintage Soviet silk fabric. The women are on a mission for traditional ikat designs.

Three graces, showing off headscarves.

Mannequins, in need of a little dressing.

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Wedding Plov In Tashkent

Uzbeks take weddings seriously and the right of passage is a multi-day, strictly followed ordeal. One of the important events of the overall wedding is a morning plov. Plov is a rice pilaf dish and morning is the early part of the day. Just to be clear.

Arrival. The plov ceremony is for men only. In modern Tashkent, the event is held in a party hall.

Typical table setting for a party. One could nosh. It's mostly for show, a backdrop for the coming plov. Eating commences. Although framed as a party, the feeling is more eat and run.

Entertainment. Lonely.

Dais. Flowery. Unoccupied. Ok, the plov has been consumed. It's been real. And brief. The men chow and bow. The whole event takes about half an hour.

The star of the party. Gutted.