It's been nearly a decade since Silk Road cooking first appeared in Queens, at places like Registan—whose name hilariously recast Rego Park as a Central Asian republic—and Uzbekistan Tandoori Bread. Now known as Uzbekistan Community Center, the latter boasted an oven made from mud and horsehair imported from Bukhara, out of which sprang the wonderful turban-shaped loaves called lepeshka. Other Central Asian eateries followed, places where succulent cuts of lamb were grilled over lump charcoal and noodles were hand-pulled, minutes before being thrown into bowls of rich beef soup. Marco Polo never... More >>>