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THE HALAL HUT, CENTEREACH

Nestled next to Dunkin Donuts in Centereach on Middle Country Road is the area’s newest halal joint.

Longtime family friends Daiyan Chowdhury, 23, and Rasif Choudhury, 28, opened The Halal Hut in October.

This is the two’s newest venture, having run a similar business in an office building in Hauppauge.

“It was just a small operation but then it really blew up there,” Daiyan told us this fall. “We had people who would come in every day for lunch. We thought we could bring that concept and expand it out.”

That’s when they decided to do a larger location. They picked Centereach because they grew up there.