Tashkent. Pilaf

A few words about the new job and pilaf

Posted by Dmittr 20th Jun 2022

Shalom-shalom. We are in Uzbekistan, in Tashkent for 2 weeks already, so far we like everything except the summer heat. Although some people say "it is better to sweat in summer than to get warm in winter". Even the daily +35 with no wind can also be got used to.

The new job implied a week of training in CFD basics in order to understand what my colleagues are talking about. In brief - a gambling game for the calculating, where the role of cards and dice and roulette are the rates of currencies and resources relative to each other, or just trading. After training there was a day for the internal exam and only after that the real work. At work you have to get up at 3 am, but it's ok if you go to bed at 7-8 pm. Well ok... More pictures!

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Let's start with the beautiful... The watermelon seller didn't hesitate to bring his own bed.

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Meet pilaf. It may not look like much, but it's delicious and inexpensive - $2. I'll show you how it's made.

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In such a huge cauldron and in smaller cauldrons pilaf is cooked all the time.

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This one's almost done.

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There's an oven smoldering and meat being cut. The process is almost outdoors.

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Everyone's taking pictures here.

In general, the place gets a big kudos for the fact that 2 people can eat well for $10. In general, the food here is very good.

And a few shots of just-for-fun

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I never thought programmers at a cell phone company are selling SIM cards.

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Suddenly. In an Islamic country, a woman is a taxi driver. It drives like everyone else here - you want to buckle up.

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On the whole, of course, there is the Soviet Union here. But it is not oppressive and hopeless, but rather nostalgic and romantic. There are children running through the streets and playing with each other, a neighbor knows his neighbors by name and patronymic and many other such little things - on the one hand we live in a house from the Stalin era, on the other hand in the center of the city a block of skyscrapers Tashkent City is being built. It's a nice city.