Jewellery Shopping

After finishing the tour of the underground cistern, we walked back to the main shopping street of SultanAhmet where pakdokter's partner wanted to revisit the jewellery shop that she went to the last time we were here 6 years ago. The same Armenian young man was still running the, probably, family business. He said that all his jewellery are designed by him and that his prices are reasonable.

While pakdokter's partner was making her choices - a group of Russian girls and ladies came in and they all scooped up lots of items from the shop. One of these ladies had even been buying stuff from the shop on-line. We later learnt that these ladies do on-line jewellery business in Russia. No wonder they were simply scooping things up by the dozens. They said they have found that similar items cost 3 to 4 times more in Dubai - to which, Osman, the jewellery shop owner said that actually all those stuff in Dubai came from his shop. He also supplies to a shop in Florida and he hopes that one day he will open his own shop there.

The next day we also went to another jewellery shop at the Egyptian market, run by a lovely young girl. There we met a young Turkish lady who is an architect who said that she had read and seen pictures of so many beautiful buildings in KL and Putrajaya and as an architect, it is her dream to visit Malaysia soon. We find that the Turkish is generally very warm and friendly.

the jewellery shop owner @ the Egyptian/Spice bazaar

she even gave a 'hadiye' after the purchase...

this young Armenian jeweller designs all the stuff in his shop

loads of Russian ladies and girls came to 'borong' the stuff away

he supplies to Dubai and Florida....

he, too, gave a 'hadiye' after the final purchase made....