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Interesting place; a combination of a Persian Carpet gallery and a Silk Road travel agency.
They'll show you carpets while you negotiate your travel to Turkmenistan.
What to buy: Carpets, old and new.
Tickets and package deals to the travel destinations along the old Silk Road.
What to pay: Ooouchhhh....!
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: Monethuset in Sandvika, and Holmensenteret, Nesbru
Phone: 66981165 (Nesbru)
Every year Lions Club in Asker organises an autumn used book market to rise money for humanitarian causes. It runs over 5 days in late October every year and is located at Holmen Shopping centre. Here you can both get rid of your old books and get your hands on more books to read. Information giving details is published in Budstikka newspaper and by a hand-out brochure.
What to buy: Books of antiquarian value, or out of print books.
or any that you fancy....
What to pay: Depends on the book in question. Not much anyway as these are 2nd hands.
Written Jan 13, 2010
Address: Holmen Senter, right off E18 west of Asker center.
Phone: 95932404
A small, but excellent sea food shop near Sandvika Railway station. A super place to sample fish cakes/burgers, otherwise, I do not expect this to be an intensely interesting place for tourists...
What to buy: The daily supply of fish varies; but I noticed the quality is excellent. These guys know how to handle sea food.
Crayfish, lobster, crabs, shellfish, mussels, salt water fish, trout, salmon etc.
Processed fish, salted, dried, ground.
Very good fish burgers/cakes. A lunch in itself, two of these!
Some top notch type fish - various flounders, halibut, wild salmon etc.
What to pay: The best value for money is the redfish "uer". Very similar to tropical red snapper both in looks and taste. Spiny and scaly, so squemish Norwegians do not buy it too often. However, it is a very cheap and tasty fish. Bake it whole in the oven with onions, peppers, veggies; and spice it up.
More expensive, but a taste of the Arctic is the Steinbit - wolf fish. Extremely versatile in the pan, extremely tasty.
Written Sep 27, 2007
Address: Willy Greiners vei 2, 1377 Sandvika
Phone: 67548470
Elite Foto in Asker (Trekanten and Holmen senteret) is a branch of a photo shop chain with the same name. They occasionally have very good offers, especially on development.
What to buy: Everything rtelated to photography. However, the stores are small and will not have a full range of services and goods, so expect things to be ordered for you.
Written Mar 7, 2007
Address: Holmensenteret and Trekanten.
A local Asker sewing shop that is open upon appointment. Bunad works is veryt standard, so you really have to find out what you want in discussion with Astrid before you can expect to decide and order. These things are not laying around on shelves waiting to be bought, but is made by order.
What to pay: Ouch, this is very expensive! But consider all the hours of labour that goes into it.
Updated Jul 29, 2006
Address: Nesøya
Phone: 66849056
Website: www.bunad-som.com
I ticked off mainly on "womens clothes", but it really is a store that sells all sorts of clothes and accessories for ladies who never got out of the "princess age" of 5-11.
All sorts of pinkish gear that constitue a would-be princess' dreams. Funny kind of place, good for gifts, too.
The whole range locally made and imported stuff includes clothing, jewelry, handbags, gifts, accessories.
What to buy: Depends on the age of your princess? Plastic tiara and pink nail polish to a fleeting adult nightgown? Some self-styled, self-made things also. I bought a beach straw bag for my flippers there recently, so men also have access there...
What to pay: Not over the top expensive.
Updated Jul 29, 2006
Address: Herligheten, Vollen handelssted, Vollen in Asker.
Phone: 48195879
Website: www.herligheten.com
A Turkish/Kurdish fruit and vegetable shop with ethnic bakery goods, dairy products, coffee, treas, spices, oils and nuts. Nobody does this better than Anatolia in Asker. Your green groceries done here will save you money and health! ;-)).
Open Mon-Fri 10-21, Sat 10-18.
What to buy: Fresh veggies and fruits, Mediterranean condiments.
What to pay: Beats any "cheap" chain supermarket here.
Written Jul 29, 2006
Address: Knut Askers vei 5
Phone: 66762330
What to buy: This jewelry store sells a range of stuff, and has a lot of accessories for Norwegian, including the local bunad folk costume.
The female and male knives from Asker are quite nice and worth considering as gifts. Women's silver bunad accessories may go well with the suitable lady even without the said clothes!
What to pay: Spring sales during early spring to gear up for the folk costume "season".
Written Jul 29, 2006
Address: Strøket 5, Asker.
Phone: 66780100
Website: www.hellman.no
A vegetable and fruit grocery downtown Asker. A very professional and convenient place to pick up fresh veggies, fruits, flowers, nuts, oils, spices, coffee, teas and herbs. And a cozy store at that. If there is something missing they will do special orders for you. Petra has been here for 20 years, so chance is that she will remain in business a while more.
What to buy: All your veggie and fruit needs. maybe not fresh mangosteen... but just about all the rest.
Written Jan 8, 2006
Address: Bankveien 4, Asker downtown.
A little bit of everything, but cannot place its own identity? That must be this shopping centre at the Holmen exit of the E18 highway just short of Asker town centre east.
Several different shops here, but none of them really distinguish themselves here - definitely for a local market where the specialties are either in Oslo itself or in small, outlying boutiques (as it's called these days in a non-EU country in the vain hope of that European feel).
The liquor store ("Vinmonopolet") is always good, and brings in a lot of other shoppers, too. The other part of the centre (walkbridge across the Slemmestad road/No. 165) houses the post office of eastern Asker municipality as well as the DIY shop Maxbo. Useful knowledge for newly immigrated people like myself, but nothing for tourists, really.
What to buy: But surely, if you need groceries, you'll find it at the ground level, the liquor store at the first, and a decent sports goods store at the third level. The bakery (an outlet, not a bakery, really) is barely passable for the title, more like a simple cafe. You may get a good loaf of bread. However, pass your bakery goods purchases until at Vollen or Asker town centre.
Updated Aug 17, 2005
Address: E18 Highway exit "Holmenkrysset" - E18/FV 165
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