Silk Way: new Kazakh family-owned restaurant in Philadelphia celebrates Central Asian cuisine

Silk Way: new Kazakh family-owned restaurant in Philadelphia celebrates Central Asian cuisine

After dropping out of university, where he’d dabbled in criminal law then IT, Olzhas Karymsakov found himself in a rut. Despite landing a truck driving job in State College, pressure was mounting to return home to Almaty, Kazakhstan, and help with the family businesses—a restaurant and three spas with attached kitchens.  But Karymsakov resisted. “I always wanted something different,” he told Billy Penn. “The American dream, as people say—I just …