Exploring A Food Market in Uzbekistan

Hello and Salam! I'm Oscar and I'm Dan and you may have seen our videos exploring the beautiful country of Uzbekistan. Today we're here to show you something we haven't included much yet but that was actually one of our favorite parts of the trip. It's time for food markets! Next stop is the bazaar here in Samarkand to see if we can try Chak Chak. It's our friend Amira recommended whose mom is half Uzbek. So we're gonna search for that and we're gonna try some other good things, try to find more dates and now we have a local to help us haggle. This local bread for Samarkand is like a huge bagel almost. This bread only can cook in Samarkand and if you will be cooking in Bukhara, Khiwa, don't be like this because weather different and water different. Only in Samarkand can cook like this. Oh thank you. It's from Uzbekistan? Are the dates from Uzbekistan also? No, Uzbekistan is Iran. Really flavorful. Okay it's a date. It's a good date. Yeah. Oh she's giving us everything. Okay thank you. It's like uh it's very flaky. Wow. Thank you. Oh it tastes super nutty and nice. Name is Halva. Halva. Yeah like sweet in Arabic. This one is no milk also? It's shirmi. Only sugar with sugar and like pistachio. Okay wow this is so cool. So we have some kind of nougat that's just kind of it's like a very thick syrup with sugar. Sugar and pistachios. Wow. Uh-oh. We're only buying like junk food. I love you. The search begins for chakchak. This is like the number one thing we've been looking for since we arrived in Uzbekistan. Where's the chakchak? Your mom cooks chakchak. Do you ever help her make it? Yes sometimes. Honey it's really good. So the search continues. Everyone keeps pointing us in all different directions. We're kind of going in circles at this point. We found it. Amazing. Oh this is it. This is what we've been looking for this whole time. This is like yeah exactly. Definitely worth the wait. Thank you. How do we say thank you in Uzbek? Finally. Okay so we went to the market and we got chakchak. I hope this is the real deal. Let's try it. Feed me. It's good. It's sweet. That's ridiculously sweet. So good. Thank you.