Now every country has their little stands of amazingly good food. In Mexico it was this little stand that sold tacos of the most delicious flavors. The day just wasn't done until you'd made a trip to the taco stand. Well, here in Romania, they have soarma (shwarma) stands. This delectable combination of flavors consists of a shell (somewhat 'pita' in nature) meat [the cooking process is described below and available in pui (chicken), porc (pork) or carne de vaca (beef)], french fries, cabbage or lettuce, peppers, this amazing sauce that I have no idea what's in it, various other veggies, and smantana (something more or less like sour cream). The meat is cooked in the similar fashion as the meat cooked and offered at the little stand in Bermejillo, MX with the meat all piled ontop of each other on this big upright metal spear and constantly drenched with a redish sauce of yummy goodness. It is truly amazing. If soarma was a little cheaper, I'd be tempted to have it for dinner every nite!
Here's a picture of Nils and Emily enjoying their first soarma..... yum!
Sorry you can't see the food that well, but it doesn't look quite as good as it sounds with all the juices running and mixing and bite marks.... hence, no close up on the food. Beside us is a lamp post still covered with the mayorial canidate posters from the Mayorial election in Galati, where we ate our first soarma. Picture posters pasted everywhere is still a vital part of campaigning here... it's considerably cheaper than TV commericals :) Now getting all the glued posters off.... that's a different matter. After the elections were over, I observed a few guys with putty knives scrapping away at every lamp post and bus stand throughout Braila and Galati.
4 comments:
Actually, I have eaten soarma like 500 times before. You just never saw it on camera.
But Google saw you.
To Emily: Nils is the one who's been "eating up" your soarma budget.
You like the soarma here? I've had it a couple of times, and I think it is pretty gross. Of course, I was spoiled and had fantastic shwarma in Israel. Houston also has great shwarma since there are plenty of Middle Easterners there (thanks to oil). I've also been blessed to have doeners in Germany, which is basically the same thing except you buy it from Turks. I don't really trust 'ethnic food' unless it is from someone 'ethnic'. Now, I could eat sarmale all day. Yum!
A puddy knife? What, is Tweetie Pie doing your blog posts now?
I thought it was a putty knife.
:^)
Soarma ... hmm. You're right that every place has its food. There was this place on Corfu that had the most amazing greek food. It was a little cafe off the main town square, where you could sit, eat, and watch the locals play cricket.
And then there's the mint chip ice cream cone dipped in chocolate fudge that's available at Ghirardelli square in San Francisco.
And the pork burritos from Cafe Rio in SLC.
I'm hungry now.
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