Egyptian food choice.

In a moment we'll just over to the food stand.

But, where are we? We're basically on Roosevelt Road [羅斯福路]

- very near to the corner of HsinHseng South Road [新生南路]

and I can see the Taipower building over there.[台電大樓]

Ok. so,where're at Roosevelt Road Section 3

Let's go over to the food stand now.

We're near to the food stand now. So, you can see here Roosevelt Road Section 3, 327.

There's a Dante coffee shop over there and the food stand is right next to it. Ok guys,

let's go.

So, we're here at the shawarma food stand now. The boss is here - this is Mohammed,

and his wife is in the back there.

As you can see they call it Egyptian shawarma. I think the Chinese is 沙威瑪.

Sometimes in England they might actually call this kebabs.

so basically, the choices are small or big, with or without cheese.

And if you look at the food - you can see that it's chicken - and they grill the chicken

on a spit. Ok

Perhaps we should speak to Mohammed and ask him about his food.

so Mohammed, this is your Egyptian shawarma stand. How long have you had it here?

about fifteen years

about fifteen years,so tell me what meat do you use ?

. .

chicken.

so, how long do you work here every day?

almost ten hours, more than 10 hours

more than 10 hours. What time do you usually open?

noon time

noon. Ok. so, you call them shawarma yeah? How many do you sell a day?

depends on business

so, maybe about 80 or 100? Is that about right?

Yeah. Yeah.

so, this is the chicken with a tomato and cabbage on the top.

What else do you add? You have other things here. . . What else do you add to the shawarma?

here . .

so yo got onion, tomato, cabbage and cheese, yeah

OK. So, why did you open this food stand? Did you think it was a good idea?

I think it's a good idea!

It's very hot here,yeah?

summertme

Anyway, Mohammed. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

OK. So, this is the chicken shawarma. I'm going to eat some. I know it's going to be

delicious,

but I know it's very hot. so, let me have a bite.

Yeah, Really. It's really, realy delicious.

You can realy taste the middle-eastern spices in this. I really recommend this . Try it!

(I'll take) one lamb and one chicken

You call that a lamb kebab, this one?

Yeah

Right.

OK. Hey,let's do this.

Hi!

Hello!

(I want to see this . ...)

Arina yeah.

Yeah Arina

This is Arina. This is Mohammed's wife. Today we're going to try the lamb kebab yeah?

Have you seasoned this in any way? How did you season this?

.. . . Cut

How do you season it?

We have spices from the Middle East

( You've got to say that . . . . Later, later, later. . We'll do it again . . .. )

Hi! I am now with Arina, this is Mohammed's wife. I'm also going to try the lamb kebab.

OK. How is the lamb kebab seasoned Arina?

Before we season the kebab, the lamb kebab, we have to grind it

and then Mohammed will add some chili sauce and some spices from the Middle East.

DOes it have a special name, the spices?

Probably we use cumin. That's a very important spice.

One more time, the name??

cumin [小茴香]

cumin. cumin. OK, sure

Also coriander[香菜],paprika[辣椒] and clove . . really and we season them , and

all the flavour will go into the meat

Sure. Do you do the lamb kebabs every day?

No. No. Because the people here. Some people . . . most people like chicken here

so, you do the chicken every day?

Yes.

OK.

so maybe, we do this once or twice a week.

The difference is that this one is hand grilled.

Right

This one is going to be hand grilled guys

so, by the way, how long have you had this food stand here?

This one?

Fiffteen years

Fifteeen years. And how long have you known Mohammed?

Eighteen years

Eighteen years, ok.

Spicy?

A little bit.

Ok guys, you can see the lamb kebab is going into the pita bread here.

so, let's say the location again. We're at Roosevelt Road, Section 3 and if you look

across here,

you can see the Taipower building, and We're just really right next to the Dante coffeee

shop, over here. Yep,

I hope you got the location.

This is the end guys. so, this is my chicken shawarma and this one here is the lamb kebab.

You can see it's wrapped

in pita bread here. Umm. like I said, they don't do these every day, only maybe every

three to four days.

Well, I hope you enjoyed watching this as much as I enjoyed eating the food.

Hope to see you again next time.

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