Pamir opened on Boekhorststraat in 2009, when Abdulhamid and his wife Gülnara left Kashgar carrying nothing but family recipes and a cast-iron griddle.
Den Haag gave them a home. They gave the city the food of the ancient Silk Road — lamb slow-roasted over walnut wood, dough stretched by hand each morning, spice blends ground fresh every week.
Fifteen years on, the griddle is the same. The bread still bakes in a clay tandir. Some things are not meant to change.