
"The original shop, Brick Lane. Dad's first tandoor was second-hand from a restaurant in Bradford."
One clay oven.
One family.
Mohammed Aslam drove from Bradford to East London with a second-hand tandoor strapped to his van. He had forty pounds of marinated chicken, twelve naans' worth of dough, and a twelve-month lease on a shop the size of a hallway.
The queue formed before the sign went up. By Friday it was out the door. That clay oven — cracked on one side, running at 480°C — is still in use today.











