A restaurant in Oakland scheduled to open January 30 is seeking to bring the cuisine of Afghanistan to new heights. Jaji, co-owned by Sophia Akbar and Paul Iglesias of Parche, will walk the line between familiar and iconoclastic,

A new restaurant in Oakland is seeking to bring the cuisine of Afghanistan to new heights. Jaji, co-owned by Sophia Akbar and Paul Iglesias of Parche, walks the line between familiar and iconoclastic, with mantu-like wonton dumplings with confit duck and miso and cocktails mixed with yogurt and Silk Road spices.

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The owners of Parche are embracing the Afghani American experience with the opening of Jaji on Thursday, January 30.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, where she grew up, Asia Jaji learned how to make mantu, or meat-filled dumplings, from her mother. Decades later, in a kitchen in America, where Jaji sought refuge after the Soviet Invasion in the 1980s,

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