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Master the famous Uzbek Plov or Uzbekistan gastronomy tours becoming popular in Azerbaijan

01 March 2021

If you decide to take a trip to Uzbekistan for the sake of tasting its national cuisine only – trust us, it is still worth the case. If you ask why, we would not suggest you going through the delighted reviews of users on TripAdvisor, but rather to taste it on your own with our Uzbek Cuisine Tour, which offers you to combine visiting Tashkent and old cities, as well as discovering delicious food each region has to offer, which is unlike any other taste in the world you have experienced before.

Uzbek Embassy in Baku organized a joint master class on preparing Uzbek traditional dish Plov (Palov) together with a famous food-blogger of Azerbaijan Ulviya Mammadli, who is famous not only in Azerbaijan, but also all over the CIS countries.

The aim of such a master class is promoting not only Uzbekistan gastronomy tourism potential, but the culture, traditions and tourists attractions of or country to the public, thus increasing the tourism flow to Uzbekistan.

Uzbek traditional dish Plov, famous all over the world for its unique taste and flavor, was prepared jointly with Uzbek diplomats’ spouses in the blogger’s house. The master class was broadcast and served online through Ulvia Mammadli’s channel.

Ulviya’s house was decorated in a national Uzbek style using traditional and famous worldwide suzanis with unique and colorful national patterns, handicraft pieces of art and other house décor, demonstrating the Uzbek culture to the audience.

Uzbekistan’s history, culture, ancient monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, traditions of Uzbek people were introduced to the audience by the blogger and the guests as a part of the master class. Having visited Uzbekistan personally for many times, Ulviya particularly mentioned the unique hospitality of Uzbek people and the way ancient traditions are kept until our modern days.

The blogger also talked briefly about the International Festival “Silk and Spices” held in Bukhara city that she is going to visit in May 2021, by inviting her followers to join her trip to Uzbekistan in 2021.

Our company offers you to master the art of preparing Uzbek Plov by taking a deliciously adventurous tour, in which we offer you not only to taste the legendary Uzbek traditional rice - Plov (Palov / Pilav / Osh), which has been added to the intangible heritage list of UNESCO in 2016, but also to flavour many other dishes like Laghman, Samosa, Shashlik / Kebab, Hanum, Manti, and Shurpa.

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Did you know?

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It is Uzbek tradition that the most respected guest be seated farthest from the house’s entrance.

Tashkent’s metro features chandeliers, marble pillars and ceilings, granite, and engraved metal. It has been called one of the most beautiful train stations in the world.

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