Seattle’s Uzbek Food Truck May be the Only One on the West Coast
A unique food truck brings Uzbek street eats to our city.
By Chelsea Lin December 28, 2017
This article originally appeared in the December 2017 issue of Seattle magazine.
Many (really, most) Americans would have a hard time finding Uzbekistan on a map, let alone naming its national dishes. Suriya Yunusova and her daughter Asal, who run local food truck Tabassum, are out to change that—one plate of cumin-rich plov at a time.
The duo may run the only Uzbek food truck on the entire West Coast. And while their specialty samsas—savory meat and veggie hand pies with flaky crusts ($5)—make great snacks, the plov (available once a week, $10) is a whole delightful meal: a Central Asian dish of fried rice studded with raisins and garbanzo beans, then topped with chunks of ultra tender, slow-cooked halal beef.
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