Explained by the owner, Yuri, plove is a rice dish cooked in layers. The food is from Kazakhstan (so is Yuri), Uzbekistan, and Russia and includes such dishes as plove, a rice dish cooked in layers, shashlyki (skewers), pelmeni (Russian dumplings), chebureki (round shaped pastry, filled with a very thin layer of ground beef or lamb) and belyashi (individual fried dough).