Daily News | Plov House serves the tasty wonders of Uzbekistan 24 hours a day
I’look forward to eating a great plov any time of day. Few things are more satisfying to share with a group than a wide platter of cumin-scented Uzbek pilaf piled high with tender chunks of meat, its rendered fat and juices glazing each grain of rice beneath sweet carrot laces and plump raisins. The ability to order such a wonder at 3 a.m., though, is what makes Plov House particularly special: it’s open 24 hours day in Northeast Philadelphia.
Why 24 hours? “People from my country who drive trucks for Walmart and other stores late through the night kept calling and asking me to stay open,” says Plov House’s Uzbek-born owner Umed Minhurov, 54, a former Russian language teacher from Samarkand who emigrated to the United States in 2004. “After the Soviet Union broke up and Uzbekistan’s economy broke down, nobody cared about Russian literature anymore.
Minhurov, who opened Plov House three years ago in a Buslteton Avenue strip mall, has discovered that Philadelphians care plenty about traditional Uzbek cooking, which explains why he recently opened a second restaurant,
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