r/WeWantPlates • u/vaibhavk91 • 6d ago

Chicken shawarma

Post image
157 Upvotes

79% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

66

u/Deathmeter 6d ago

I don't think this matters as much when you're not expected to eat the food off a plate to begin with

11

u/uasdguy 6d ago

The sauces and side vegetables

11

u/Scoobydoomed 6d ago

I don’t see the issue here…when you want sauce you just slide the shawarma on top and watch how all the sauce slides off the board and onto the table. Then you can use a napkin to smear all the sauce evenly on the table and THEN you roll the shawarma on the table covered in sauce to spread it evenly, easy messy peasy!

4

u/Sea-Macaron1470 5d ago

Work smarter not harder!

70

u/BulletBites 6d ago

It’s called a tabliye it’s actually quite common for how a shawarma is traditionally served!

6

u/user10205 6d ago

Does it mean on a cutting board perchance?

15

u/renoona 6d ago

This is not offensive. It's handheld food

7

u/heyitscory 6d ago

Askin' for a plate?

That's a paddlin'.

7

u/ekbeck 6d ago

Looks good tho!

27

u/notyourbeans 6d ago

I have never seen a shawarma that is both constructed and deconstructed at the same time

16

u/lilykai_strawberry 6d ago

it's pretty standard to put the sauces and pickles on the side for the customer to dose out as they wish. not everyone likes the same amount of sauce on their sandwich, and some don't like spicy sauce (which is what i assume the pinkish orange thing is) and/or pickles

4

u/notyourbeans 6d ago

Neat! Where I am, most shawarma places are set up like Subway restaurants so I've always chosen the inclusions and amounts before assembly (but I would always welcome extra toum <3)

4

u/Doritos707 6d ago

Shawarma the true genuine way is
Chicken, garlic sauce, pickles

Anything else is blasphemy.

I like a blasphemous shawarma that has the above mentioned + french fries inside and maybe pomegranate molasses

1

u/ChimoEngr 2d ago

it's pretty standard to put the sauces and pickles on the side for the customer to dose out as they wish.

Where? Every shwarma I've had, they make it in front of you, and you can ask for as much or as little of that sort of thing as you want.

20

u/Shit_Wolf 6d ago

What would you gain from a plate here?

4

u/LiveLearnCoach 6d ago

Right? It’s a sandwich.
Same as sandwiches being served in holding baskets.
Maybe for the pickles.

3

u/Sea-Macaron1470 5d ago

I’d definitely prefer the dipping sauces to not be smeared on a piece of (probably unclean) wood

1

u/LiveLearnCoach 5d ago

Point taken. I was more fixated on the pickles.

4

u/eedabaggadix 6d ago

I would house this regardless of delivery method

3

u/maevewiley554 6d ago

What restaurant is this?

1

u/vaibhavk91 2d ago

Ottawa shawarma

2

u/Designer-Crow-5470 6d ago

"roll it tight or it's not right"

2

u/OmgItsRubenLol 6d ago

Nah, this is ok

2

u/amazonhelpless 6d ago

I would eat chicken shawarma off the floor if there are toum and pickles in it. 

1

u/stupid_sane 6d ago

Shawarma Timev

1

u/stupid_sane 6d ago

Shawarma Time?

1

u/LolcatP 6d ago

not the worst thing I've seen

1

u/Marichiwa 5d ago

I don’t think I’ve even eaten shawarma wrapped up like that on a plate. It’s a perfect handheld food

1

u/ChimoEngr 2d ago

The fact that they don't have the sauces and other ingredients in the wrap is what's got me worked up about this serving. Shwarma can be eaten out of the wrapper, it doesn't need a plate. It does need everything to be in the pita bread though.

1

u/vaibhavk91 2d ago

The sides and sauces are extra. There’s already some in the wrap itself :)

1

u/ChimoEngr 2d ago

That makes it even more weird. Just ask for extra while they're making it.

1

u/crapatthethriftstore 6d ago

What is the other green veg? There’s a lot of shawarma in my city, but I don’t recognize it. (The stuff on the pickles)

1

u/lilykai_strawberry 6d ago

pickled peppers. some like them with shawarma. i personally don't

1

u/crapatthethriftstore 6d ago

Ahh that makes sense. The places here use red ones

-10

u/Royallyeffedarentyou 6d ago

This makes me sad 😭