Pary Baban's dining establishment, Nandine, provides authentic Kurdish home-style cooking in South East London.
Born in South Kurdistan, Pary was required to flee her home village of Qaladzê, resulting in a 9 day trek across Kurdistan where she learned to prepare by gathering recipes from the people she experienced.
When she settled in London, Pary served her Kurdish food from a newspaper kiosk that she kept up her hubby, and she was soon flooded with customers lining up for kebab and kubbas (Kurdish dumplings) and opened her full-service restaurant.
Today, Nandine is a local preferred and Pary has actually gathered a reputation for her elegant take on Kurdish classics like Qabuli Rash (smoked rice with mutton), Qozi (slow-cooked lamb shank), and Shelim E Kulaû (turnip in molasses).
Photography by Ruth Samuels.
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I LOVE Kurdish food. We I lived in Nashville in the 90s we had a huge Kurd population and they had the most amazing food. It is part of the reason I got into cooking. Love this series
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It’s just Greek/Armenian DNA no such thing as Turkic DNA in 🦃
@neuronaljunctiondecay5673 its kurdish food stop lying
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not İran not Turks not arabs
Long live Kurdistan
Bijî Kurd u Kûrdîstan
بژي كورديستان
كورديستان زنداباد
Yaşasın Kürtler ve Kürdistan
عيش كورديستان عيش الكرد
@EmmaEmma-k4f you really need to shut up
@EmmaEmma-k4fso you’re saying Armenians and Greeks are Turks since we’ve mixed? 🤡
Thank you for welcoming us into you home. the food is made in the best way, from the heart ❤️
Definitely making a point to visit Nandine next time I’m in the area.
We ate at this restaurant early this year and it’s one of the best meals I’ve had this year. We ordered half the menu and everything was just perfect. My favourite is the chicken hearts, love it, it’s BYOB and there’s an off licence next door 👌
We have a kurdish family in my home town in germany. Their Son was in elementary school with me and everytime I went over to his house I left so full of food I was about to burst.
Amazing episode. Anybody in the states interested in trying Kurdish food needs to visit Nashville. We’ve got one of the largest Kurdish populations in the world outside Kurdistan. Very much it’s own distinct cuisine!
Which Kurdish restaurant in Nashville would you recommend and what are the good that I should order?
Such a beatiful woman and such a lovely family sharing their heritage and culture with the world! Their cuisine looks absolutely stunning and I would love to try it one day 🙏
Our beautiful neighbours with their beautiful cuisine. All love to Kurdistan.
This is so heartwarming and I definitely relate as a Hyderabadi. Even if people don’t know about my people, I’m always willing to give them the long (or short) winded explanation of my people’s history.
She needs to publish the cookbook. I’m in the US and spent four summers in Kurdistan as a teacher and would love to learn how to make some of the food I tried
Kurdish culture ❤
I like Kurds and Kurdish food. Really nice people.
I love the Kurdish people and their foods.
If anyone is near Manchester Rusholme is like little Kurdistan ❤
Love you bro from manch❤
Big love to the kurdish people!
i love kurdish food when i visited kurdistan i def need to pay this place a visit for some unique kurdish food.
Bless her. The food looks amazing. Great story
im a filipino and i wolud love to try kurdish food
Fully bawling my eyes out. Pary xan is the best representation of our cuisine that I have ever seen. 1000 jar dastakant xosh be, her cookbook comes out in March of next year, everyone go buy it!
The food Looks delicious ngl ❤
loved the video. love kurdish.