These urban wanderings are punctuated by brief pauses in the cafés of Neukölln to down a quick beer; prolonged pauses in the lines outside kebab shops at lunchtime, long queues…there are more kebab shops here than McDonald’s. Mauro will taste more than thirty during his stay, finally deciding on his favorite—made in a van at the Mehringdamm U-Bahn station. Crunchy slices of meat, sweet grilled onions, crisp fries, soft bread, the smooth sauce soaking through all of it, and hot, hot, hot: the perfect fuel.
~ Maylis de Kerangal, The Cook (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 26, 2019)
Photo: geschmacks of Döner Kebab Groß
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Looks yummy … ‘… finally deciding on his favorite—made in a van at the Mehringdamm U-Bahn station.’ …
Ohhh
Mouth watering!
It is!
That and a cold stein of beer and we are good! 🍻
That’s it!
Droooooling….
I was, and proceeded to order kabobs for delivery.
It’s Ramadan for my household. It’s Kabobs everyday for a month. We do Kefta kabob though. Not Doner Kabob.
Happy Ramadan! I could do Kefta Kabobs for a month.
🙂 Yes, only you and Esam can eat Kefta Kabobs for 30 days straight. Layla and I quit on him a week into it and start doing our own thing.
Same meal for 30 days, Dates, yogurt, lentil soup ( my lentil soup), kefta Kabobs over basmati rice.
Oh, 30 days easy.
Oh boy…
*dramatic and dreamy sigh* All meals should sound so sumptuous…
Agree!
the photo is pure torture for me who is gluten free …// /my sister in law was living in Berlin when the wall came down, she was a a reporter…she gave her siblings tiny pieces of the wall…
So sorry you can’t eat 🍞. It’s a wonder of the world.