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Omg. NYC is probably going to start to be completely over run by these guys when Zohran takes over! You probably won’t even be able to get a hot dog or a pretzel. It will just be Doner every corner!
Calgary Shawarma. I don’t know his name, but my grandfather was sick and I was stuck at work (working on a phone line repair at the auto shop next door.) Dead of winter, miserable cold. Then my mom calls: Grandpa died. Shawarma guy overheard this, I’m sitting in my van crying. Knock on my window. Guy hands me a Shawarma. “Boss, you should come in to my shop, have some food, get warm. No charge.” He sat and listened to my grandpa stories until I had it together and could go back to finish my job.
Seriously, total stranger, and he was there for me on one of my worst days, and I’ll never forget.
I had to look up doner meat and was pleasantly surprised.
I initially read it as Donner meat. (It’s an American thing. You don’t want to know)
I tried a
German Doner Kebabsince they seem to be a chain cropping up everywhere here in the UK. Awful. Terrible. Skimps on the meat. Salad tastes stale. Bread is some weird waffle mix.Never again will I betray my local doner/durum man, for this new weak euro-corpo-bullshit
Wait how do you have a picture of my gyro guy?
Enjoy the interview with Hamid Ali, owner/operator of the Doner Kebab food truck on the No Dishes podcast.
From $100 in his pocket to a successful food truck business.
Adds extra meat with no surcharge (without you asking for it) when you ask for one without salad. Actual King
My guy makes me an all-salad donair sometimes. Works both ways, so awesome. Miss me with the falafel, I require vegetables!
I don’t. Southeastern USA.
One of the guys who’ll never give you up, never let you down.
They don’t have kebab places in the US (at least not nearly on the same level as they do in Europe). It’s a national tragedy and is probably why things are going so poorly for us.
I think you’re onto something here. I agree.
I mean… they definitely do in many areas. Often some of the best food around.
Yeah, around me they usually use Greek labels, probably because of racism. But still owned and staffed by middle easterners. They’ll have gyros with tzatziki, but also shawarma with tahini.
Yeah we had a place in West Palm that was the absolute tits! Buckets of olives everywhere, and that pickled radish was just out of this world! I was really saddened to see they closed down last time I visited.
My favourite moment with Kebab boss man was watching him arguing with another customer about whether it’s “Chips and cheese” or “cheesy chips”, which culminated in boss man screaming “FUCK YOU, CHIPS AND CHEESE!”.
My yyro and falafel guy has an amazing memory for people. He used to be a waiter in his uncle’s Mediterranean restaurant before opening his own place after his uncle retired. People can come into his shop who ate at his uncle’s place one time 15 years ago and he’ll know their name, what they ordered, and if they liked it.
If you customize your order next time you order that item he’ll be like “No onion on the Gyro and an extra pita with the hummus?” if you come in a year later.
And he’s super, super friendly.
Also: is still open after every other restaurant in town has closed for the night.
We moved to Germany. Berlin is a kebab paradise and the people who run those counters rock. They’ll chat with us and our poor German, fix up a great meal, and it’s always tasty to eat.
As a semi-middle eastern person who grew up with access to real Turkish cuisine, seeing German/European style döner makes cry. Not only they dare to put lettuce/cabbage in it at all, it’s like 60% of the content. It took me years to find proper döner in Poland, but now I finally know 2 places.
I have this but with Simit. Done Erasmus in Istanbul (a lifetime ago, before Erdogan), the Simit from the street vendors and small bakeries … Ooof. Haven’t found any that can even remotely compare since 😿
Mit alles und scharf?
Alles er op en er aan alstublieft! - “Everything on and on top please!”
Für mich? Alles und sehr scharf!
Fùr meine Ehefrau? Kein rotkohl und kein scharf, aber beiden gemüse und pommes, bitte.
This man exists in every town in the UK, and is the only reason the entire country hasn’t collapsed already.
Same with the guy who runs the rundown phone shop and can fix your phone screen for £20 on the spot. Singlehandedly keeping the whole country running.
Beans on toast or döner? Which way Western Man?
