The event lasted about two hours and the visitors had chance to learn how to prepare Uzbek pilaf, the embassy said.

The embassy said that the event attracted over 150 people, including officials of Russian ministries and organizations, leading experts of tourism sector, foreign tourists and ordinary people.

Team of cooks from Uzbekistan led by Alo Aglaev shared secrets of cooking national cuisine. Alo Aglaev briefed the participants about history and types of pilaf at the center of exhibition hall, which was decorated in national style. After the event, about 200 people had chance to taste pilaf.

Moscow Tourism Minister Sergey Shpilko acknowledged that at last he had chance to taste real Uzbek pilaf in Moscow.

Olga Teplyakova, director of International Tourism Fair, said that the presentation of the Uzbek cuisine is bright event, which decorated the tourism fair. She added that the cook attracted attention of the audience, while aroma of pilaf attracted all visitors of the exhibition complex.

President of Voyaj Tur Igor Silin said that the pilaf cooking is real art, which representatives of other nations cannot master. He said that he visited all Central Asian states, but none of them can cook pilaf like in Uzbekistan.

Director of Alan Travel Oleg Nikifirov expressed gratitude to organizers for providing opportunity to learn cooking of pilaf. He said that all participants will now try to cook pilaf at home.

American tourist Nigel Lightle [transliterated], who visited the presentation accidentally, said he was impressed with taste of the pilaf. He said that pilaf became real opening for him.

Aleksander Federov and his spouse Olga visited the presentation to learn how to cook pilaf. They said that they came to presentation two hours earlier and started to get information on cooking pilaf.