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Black market is an interesting place where you can see the real local people who tries to supply thier kids and family and selling goods in all during four seasons, still staying in outside when it gets -30 in freezing winter,
All the basic foodstuffs are available from the various number of super markets. Many types of imported food are sold in department store Bars and Mercury food market. several shops are selling camping gears and also in the black market you can find everything as well as NORTH FAKE ( north face) made in china but it’s ideal to buy those the price of one tenth in Europe around 25$ the quality isn’t that bad . The black market is known Har Zakh in Mongolian Narantuul is the biggest and main place for locals to buy clothing, traditional costume, hand made furniture, high quality of Mongolian carpets, fresh fruit and vegetable also fresh meat just from grazing land and traditional milk products as well as Mongolian GER felt tent with all the details and decorations, This is the place you can find the cheapest things in a town but sure you should bargain take your tour guide or Mongolian friend when you go there, But don’t worry Mongolians are very honest people so they don’t increase the price like Chinese just maybe just few hundreds believe them .
The most important things is to be careful with your stuffs don’t take your passport, wallet with lot of money and camera there are group of pickpockets in black market and they are almost professional some come in front of you other push you from your back and they make crowd on purpose and in that time some will steal your things and will run away in second.

Here you can find everything everything, from the stationary to second handed German shoes /10-20$/ , Traditional Mongolian clohes, hand made felt boots /15-20$/, traditional Del / 25-30$/, some traditional furniture with beautifil painting, wooden chair /4$/ depending on the size, small wooden chair or maybe tea dest will ge breat present to your loved ones, but and then post them in Post office, there is a inside Food market there you coud find from mutton to milk product, dried curd, clotted cream, as well as fermented mare's milk / less than 1$ per litre/.

Here are some useful Mongolian phrases that might help you! don't expect that they will speak english to you!!
*How much does it cost? Ene yamar unetei ve? / Энэ ямар үнэтэй вэ? /
*I would like to buy... Bi …-iig avmaar baina / Би ...- г авмаар байна /
*Can I try this ….? Bi omsoj uzej boloh uu? / Би өмсөж үзэж болох уу? /
*Boots Gutal / Гутал /
*Deel Deel / Дээл /
*Do you have smaller / bigger one? Tanid arai jijig/ tom baina uu? / Танд арай жижиг / том байна уу? /

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