After more than a decade serving Somali cuisine in Seattle—and three years of residency in Rainier Valley—the Mama Sambusa Kitchen food cart will soon open a proper restaurant. Here, a new generation of the business wants to elevate Somali cuisine.
Nearly every day of the week, Marian Ahmed, better known as Mama Sambusa, spends the brittle hours of a Pacific Northwest dawn feeding regulars getting off graveyard shifts, or night owls hankering for midnight sustenance. Ahmed and her family used to make sambusas in Africa; her daughter Honey Mohammed has helped since she was able to hold a spoon and stir.
Mohammed originally inspired the cart’s dusk-to-dawn
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