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  • Hello Guys! It's Francis back again. Today I want to introduce to you an interesting

  • 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.

Hello Guys! It's Francis back again. Today I want to introduce to you an interesting

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