What Afghanis Eat, at Dunya Kabab House | The New Yorker
"Ghiasi is an investor in Little Flower Cafe, on 36th Avenue, in Queens, opened by his friend Ali Zaman, who, like Ghiasi, is the New York-born son of an Afghan-born restaurateur. (Sami’s Kabab House, an Afghani restaurant, also in Astoria, is owned by, and named for, Zaman’s father.) Little Flower is a fourth-wave coffee shop seamlessly adapted to halal specifications: the beans are from Sey, perhaps the most anointed roaster in New York; the bacon on the soft-scrambled-egg sandwich is lamb belly. Pastries include a cardamom croissant and a Boston-cream-style doughnut filled with firni, a rosewater-infused custard." - Hannah Goldfield
