Photos: Asal Bakery & Kabob in Woodland Hills

A customer leaves the Asal Bakery and Kabob in Woodland Hills with an armload of sangak, a flatbread popular in Iran. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Siverio Rivas gets some dough for sangak. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Sangak dough is spread on a simulated pebble surface in the oven. The bread has been traditionally baked on a bed of hot tiny river stones. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Sangak fresh from the oven. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
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Niloo Abdollahi, left, helps a customer at the family-run restaurant. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)