Privoz, Odessa
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The legendary Privoz Market is an equally impressive symbol of Odessa as famous Potemkin Stairs. Admittedly, the older part of the market featuring the most beautiful of its buildings, the 1913-built Fruit Pavilion, is currently undergoing reconstruction; nevertheless, part of the old market is still open and buzzing with Babel-like atmosphere. According to the locals, you can buy anything but your mother and father. What a hotchpotch of goods: strawberries, tomatoes, toasted sunflower seeds (semechki), dummies sporting jeans, brassieres, eggs and even cockroach poison loudly advertised by a man outyelling everybody else. The constant jam in the endless stream of people can often be overcome only with the help of your elbows. The new part of the market is the location of the Fish Pavilion, the most talked-about feature of the market. On one side, the famous Odessa crayfish are wriggling in doily-covered plastic tubs. The best idea, of course, is buying some fresh ones and boiling them yourself (do add some salt and dill); however, boiled crayfish are also available; the done thing is polishing them off at the adjacent cafe, washed down with beer or vodka - or at the beerhouse across the street, jam-packed with throngs of „real men", authentic to the core. Depending on the size, crayfish cost from UAH 3 to 20. Sensing a potential buyer, the vendor produces a basin of Crimean crabs from behind the counter; looks like the trade is not quite legal - not that it would bother anyone in Odessa. And, while you're at it, make sure to take a picture of Sonechka the Fisherwoman, a „well tanned" black stone sculpture in the middle of the pavilion.
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