Rokhat Kosher Bakery
65-43 Austin Street | also 65-37 Austin Street, 65-35 Austin Street, 65-33 Austin Street | Rego Park | built 1951
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- 1992
Bukharan Jewish brothers Roshiel and Rafael Samekhov arrive from Uzbekistan and later found Rokhat Kosher Bakery
Roshiel and Rafael Samekhov, members of Uzbekistan's Bukharan Jewish community, emigrated to the United States in 1992 and went on to found Rokhat Kosher Bakery in Rego Park. The bakery offers samsa, lepeshka bread and manti dumplings and serves as a gathering place for Bukharan Jews in Queens. Its bakers cook samsa and Uzbek non on the sides of tanoor ovens, including a walk-in tanoor about the size of an industrial refrigerator.
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