"Being immigrants, they knew what it's like to have the struggle, right?"
"They always really cared about affordable pricing because they want everyone to be able to eat."
"We're 100% hand-slaughtered halal,"
"We were probably one of the first restaurant chains in the bay to do that."
Pakwan has served the Bay Area for 26 years, offering large portions of halal Pakistani-Indian food at low prices that stretch across multiple meals. Vegetable and chicken biryani both cost $14.99 and come as substantial platters of spiced basmati rice with vegetables or protein, often providing several meals per order. Second-generation owners Eera Amin, Ali Amin and Danial Shahbaz maintain affordable pricing to honor the founders' immigrant values and to ensure broad access to food. Founders Mohammed Shahbaz and Khalid Amin opened the first Pakwan in 1999 and emphasized hand-slaughtered halal practices; a fire prompted a pivot that made the Mission location the best-known Pakwan.
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