My adventures in Termez, the hottest and southernmost city in Uzbekistan, continued with a tour of an amazing local silk factory and a delicious dinner of exotic Uzbekistan food like horse salad, and some vodka, of course! Come along with me as I continue exploring the city of Termez!
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Termez is located right next to the Uzbek/Afghan border and is famous because it marks the beginning of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan. Speaking of silk, my afternoon adventures began at a silk factory called Surxon Ipagi.
Inside, I could see them pulling the silk from the cocoons. My guide, Otabek explained the process of pulling silk from the cocoons with the machines. One cocoon provides one kilometer of silk!
The factory was huge! They have over 1,200 rolls and each one is 8 kilometers. They produce about 10,000 km of silk per day and 10 tons of silk fiber in a month!
This factory’s process was a little different from the one at the silk factories in China. I had never seen a factory like this. I hadn’t yet seen the process in Uzbekistan; so far, I had only seen the weaving.
After they pull 8 kilometers of silk on a roll, it’s washed and dried. The cocoons are grown in nearby villages, taken to warehouses, dried, and sorted by women along conveyor belts. They separate and clean them and throw out any waste. The good ones go to the factory.
Once they wash and dry the rolls, they’re brought to a room where five rolls are brought to an area and combined into one 40-km band. There are five bands that spin, which equals 200 kilometers! I couldn’t believe how much silk that was!
Then, they prepare the silk fibers for exporting. The women clean the fibers and then collect five pieces together, roll, and press them. Then, they’re put in paper packages and marked.
Inside the shop, they have lots of things, mostly for women. They have amazing scarves for 100,000 som, or about $10 USD. I had never seen silk this affordable before. I bought my wife 4 beautiful scarves!
Then, we headed to dinner. The temperature had easily dropped more than 20 degrees now that the sun had gone down. It’s always like that in the desert. The days are scorching while the nights are really cold.
We arrived at Restaurant Dubai, is a beautiful building that sells lots of different cuisines and has an outdoor terrace upstairs. I only wanted Uzbek food. We started with some Uzbek vodka on the terrace, followed by some tender, juicy beef with bread. I also enjoyed a lot of vodka and some pure watermelon juice!
Next, I had a soup called galupsi, which is sweet peppers stuffed with rice and beef. It was monstrous and tasty, with a rich, flavorful broth.
Next was a boiled meat soup with juicy pieces of fat and peppers. I loved the tasty vegetable broth. It was my favorite Uzbek soup so far.
Then, we got some more Uzbek salads. The first had peas, cucumber, and meat, while the second contained sausage, tomatoes, and more meat. The one with peas was very refreshing and a little oily. It had a small amount of meat in it. The beef, sausage, and tomato salad was a delicious combination.
Next was norin, a dish I had tried in Tashkent. It consists of horse meat with a wheat pasta. It was too good! The meat was gamy. This pasta tasted more like pasta. The one in Tashkent had tasted more like cheese! I loved it!
My next dish was chickpeas with tender beef. There was also a nice broth in it and a giant hunk of fat that I had to break up in it. The fat was so amazing!
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