Sabunçu is just outside of Baku, a small town surrounded by oil fields. According to Wikipedia begin of the 20th century it produced 35% of Azerbaijan’s oil and Azerbaijan produced about 50% of the world’s production at time – make your math.
Within the mall town you do not see much from the oil richness around and its market is just a normal market with all kind of things to buy.
It always amazes me that most people buy the factory bread rather than the more tasty tendir bread – it is probably matter of price: a loaf of factory bread is 40 qepik in Baku rather than 50 for the tendir bread and provides more slices.
The market has all the conserved fruits and vegetables you can find in Baku, but also fresh produce and kitchen ware like these huge pots. It was already late afternoon and stalls were about to be closed and the chickens, not doomed for the pot this day, were put back into their boxes.
Not many foreigners come to this place. I walked away with an apple as a gift from one of the fruit vendors.
Life in Baku 
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einmal kaufte ich auf einem Bauernmarkt drei lebendige Hühner und wollte sie in unserem Haus leben lassen, so wie ich es als Kind bei Bauern gesehen hatte. Meine Frau aber ließ mich mit den drei Hühnern nicht in unsere Stadt-Wohnung hinein. So musste ich den Traum vom morgendlich warmen Frühstücksei begraben. Gottseidank darf ich wenigstens eine Katze halten…
eine Katze ist viel besser als drei Hühner, besser sind natürlich zwei Katzen