Tourist shops Around Váci utca, main pedestrian thoroughfares and perhaps the most famous street of central Budapest, you will find plenty of expensive boutiques, folk-art and souvenir shops, foreign-language bookstores, and classical-record shops. Hungary is famous for its age-old Herend porcelain, which is hand-painted in the village of Herend near Lake Balaton. While a stroll along Váci utca is integral to a Budapest visit, browsing among some of the smaller, less touristy, more typically Hungarian shops in Pest -- on the Kis körút (Small Ring Road) and Nagy körút (Great Ring Road) -- may prove more interesting and less pricey. Antiques Falk Miksa utca, in the fifth district, running south from Szent István körút, is one of the city's best antiques districts, lined on both sides with atmospheric little shops and galleries. {mosgoogle}Central Market Hall You can get all the "famous hungarian food products" here: Pick salami, wine, Paprika from Szeged and Kalocsa, Palinka (a spirit made by fruits ), goose liver, Unicum. And also of course the handmade embroided tableclothes and Halasi laces. The building itself is worth to see from outside as well, especially the tiles on the roof made by the famous Zsolnay manufacture. |
