Peace, my friends!
Today, I'm in Sheki city in Azerbaijan
And we want to see
17 manats = $10
What might they buy us in this beautiful city?
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Sheki, from the biggest cities of Azerbaijan
Its atmosphere is village-like and beautiful
The locals are friendly
And its in a region with marvelous nature in between the mountains
It's nice to go there and spend the day
Humans have lived in it for 2600 years
And it was on the Silk Road
The road to it was for an hour from Qabala city which you will see in the upcoming video
I'm now in Downtown
And we're now on the highest touristic point
And we'll be going down towards the city and try to
Spend 17 manat
To be able to see the prices in Azerbaijan
The moment you start going down the street you find lots of stores selling the popular items of Azerbaijan
Such as souvenirs, magnets
Some stores sell pottery items
Very similar to Türkiye
When it comes to what they sell
The tea cups, and the teapots
But I don't think this will be a part of the $10, no way
Let's go down furthermore
- This one is for 4, the iron one
- This one is for 5
- And the rest are for 2
Most probably the first thing I'll buy is the Azerbaijani head-wear
These are the traditional hats they wear here
See how it looks
It's pretty, honestly
How many manats, last price?
- Last price?
Last price!
[ speaking in Azeri ]
3.5!
Deal
🤝
- Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you
- Thank you
Thank you
[ speaking in Azeri ]
Teşekkürler (Thanks)
So we started by changing my appearance to bit of an Azeri appearance
Teşekkürler (Thanks)
- Qasem, this is the Azeri dancing outfit
Yeah
- They also have many types of it, this is one of the dancing outfits
And I came now to try a popular food in Sheki called
Sheki Halva
Which means the sweet from Sheki
It looks like kunafah from top but on the inside it's filled with hazelnuts
Mixed with simple syrup
Full of simple syrup, look
You eat it by hand obviously
Oh myy!
The amount of syrup
This is it, let's try it
It tastes like calories
Full of sugar
But it's tasty, it's similar to our baklava
çok iyi (Very good)
Yummm
We took this small plate for 2 manat
[ 11.5 manats remaining ] 💸
- Full of calories
- You don't get to taste anything else
- But it's good
- They put around 3 liters of simple syrup
- or 2 liters
Wow!
And hazelnuts are heavy
I feel my throat full of sugar
Sugar all inside, unbelievable how sweet it is, full of simple syrup
One bite from this one is compared to a plate of kunafah
Yalla next
Sheki is the last place I'm visiting in this trip in Azerbaijan
And honestly, it was a great choice because it's really beautiful
Look at the river, the buildings, how the history is marked on the city
And we're going down to try more foods of Sheki
It's nice in Azerbaijan that wherever you go you find the Lada cars
The sponsor of Azerbaijan
All the taxis are Lada cars
Before we continue recording we want to eat a food that fulfills our hunger to have some energy to go on
We came to this traditional restaurant
I don't know its name, we found it in the middle of the city
We will try a traditional meal here called Piti
Let's try that out, here you go
Piti is the most popular food in all of Sheki
The idea is simple, they put meat
With the fat, with chickpeas
With saffron
And salt and pepper
Inside a clay pot
It's hot
The clay pot is put inside the fire until all of what's inside ripens
Then the clay pot is served as is and you can pour it in this plate
It looks like a great one, let's try that out
And it costs 6 manat
You can't come here without trying it
- The entire piece, the taste comes from here
A whole piece of fat
I thought this was potato
Yuummm!!
It's worth visiting Sheki only for this plate
Meat is extraordinary
Needs another bite
So this is not potato for sure? Oh, it's fat for real
Wow!
- Meat is so soft, it's divided from the center
Unbelievable, so soft, it's melting!
It's melting!!
What is this? fat, full of fat
Ohh myy!
They serve pickled onions with it
Yumm
Mom! If you're watching the video, let's make pickled onions, turns out it's tasty
[ Sound of the Adhan: Call to prayer ]
In the middle of Sheki I found a mosque
Let's enter and check how their mosques look from the inside
The first thing I found was that the minaret
Is independent from the building
And not made a part of the mosque
- No, no, that's not it
- This minaret is a remnant of a mosque that was demolished
- In the 16th century
- They built Jomaa mosque next to it
- So that there will be a full mosque with a minaret (next to it)
It's not fair to make a video in Azerbaijan without having a cup of tea
We're now in Downtown
The exact middle of town
And there is a place here that looks cute
And small
It has some seats and tea
Thank you
- You're welcome
The whole teapot costs 1 manat
Imagine that? The whole teapot
Not just a cup
The teapot for 1 manat
So creative, all the respect
Such a good price
This is the difference between touristic and non-touristic places
In touristic stores, a cup is for 4 manat
I don't know where to spend my money
I found a drink they sell here in the streets called
The Ottoman drink
I didn't really understand what it contains but it looks like a bunch of herbs
That they harvest from the mountain
- True, cardamom, saffron, and herbs
- One of the herbs is called the Meccan herb
Okay
- Some herbs are made into drinks
- So this one is healthy
So it's salad, this is salad
So delicious
The taste is impossible to figure out, not even one ingredient
There's nothing else to do here, I don't know. It's a small city
So we're taking a taxi to the place we parked the car
And leave from there
One manat
One manat, so cheap, guys
God bless you
Peace be upon you
The nice man is wondering what we're doing
Thanks
On the road, I'll devour a doner sandwich to spend all the day's money
I found a salon
So I stopped to think that I really need to cut my hair
So let's spend the rest of the $10
Here you go
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Thank you
- Welcome
Peace be upon you
- And upon you
Ask him how much he wants
[ speaks in Azeri ]
- 15
Guys, we just got fooled
The old man is smart
[ laughs ]
We have surpassed our budget
God bless you, May God increase your travels. Peace!
[ laughs ]
And after some bargaining, he took 5 for the hair alone
So he surpasses the budget by 2.5 manat
Good, good
So this was Sheki and what you can do for $10 in it
May God increase your travels
See you in the next video
Big thanks for Ibrahim
And Uday
- My dear friend
Who were with me in the video
God bless you
- You enlightened the city
Peace!
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