So where are we going?
We're going to eat shawarma.
Let's go. -At Laffa, Al Barsha.
It's gonna be good. -Which, I've heard is one of the better,
Yeah. -maybe even the best, shawarma place in Dubai.
It's right up here.
Yeah, it's one of these, right?
Let's see. -Yeah.
Your destination is on the left.
It says my destination is on the left. -Here it is.
Is this it? Here it is. -Here it is.
Fantastic.
Now I just need to find a parking space.
Yeah.
Can't find one.
Guess this place must be popular.
Look, all these cars.
Bet they're all eating shawarma.
In fact, right here, I can get one.
Fantastic.
Here we go.
Oh, it is like a fast food place.
It almost looks like a McDonalds or something, you know.
It's set up for like fast food.
It's good
but there's no free tables.
Can ask the guy.
Hi, brother.
Brother, hi.
Can we get a table here?
Oh, this one's getting cleared?
Oh, okay.
Fantastic.
Is it okay if we use our cameras in here, to try the food and...?
No problem, my friend. -No problem? Thank you, brother.
Do we order with you, or...?
You sit down and order.
Oh, this is a sit down and order place?
Oh, classy, classy.
Okay, brilliant.
I think that was perfect timing.
Yeah.
Just got the table.
What's your famous dish here?
It's the shawarma?
Everything is famous for us.
Everything? -But the special one is shawarma, exactly.
Shawarma? The chicken or the beef, or what do you like?
The both.
Both?
'Meat Shawarma' this is beef, yeah?
Yes.
Ah, okay.
Okay, I will just take one chicken and one beef.
I will try both of them.
Alright. -Yeah.
You a Ronaldo fan?
Yes. Yes, I am. You love Ronaldo, uh?
Good.
CR7.
I'll do the same, actually.
So, two and two.
Yeah, and then maybe...
Should we get one chicken?
You have the broast chicken, right?
Mmhmm.
Yeah, apparently the broasted chicken here
is very famous.
Maybe we should get a half spicy broast chicken.
What do you say? -Sounds good to me.
Okay.
Let's get some hummus.
Yeah, let's get some hummus.
Good idea.
And then I'll have a water, please.
Do you have the 7-Up Free, the sugar-free one?
Yes, we have it.
And how about some laban?
Mmhmm.
Oh, laban's very good.
Laban's an Arabic... -Oh, the ayran.
Yeah, laban, like it's
Arabic yoghurt. -Yoghurt, the ayran, yeah.
It's nice.
You like laban?
Of course.
Okay, good.
I love it too.
A classic summertime Arabic drink, right?
Cools you down. -Yeah.
Laban ayran.
So one for you, also.
Yeah, I'll have some of that too, please.
Alright, you're gonna like it.
Thank you. -Great.
And anything else?
Ah, it should be good.
I think we're set.
We're getting hummus, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Is it okay to take video of the men cutting the shawarma?
Can I stand there and...?
Yeah, but stay far away, a little bit.
Ah, in case... I don't get in their way?
Yeah. Ah, okay. No problem, brother, no problem.
Thank you. -Okay.
Let's go take a look at the shawarma.
Ohhhhh. -Let's check out the...
They're busy.
They are busy. -That's what you like to see, right?
Look at this shawarma joint.
Wow. Hi boss.
Hello, how are you?
Look at this shawarma station.
Hi brothers. -Hi, how are you guys?
You are welcome.
The sliced hot chicken,
put onto these flat breads
and
with potato and the tomato and
cucumber.
Yeah, sometimes they stick some french fries in as well. -Yeah.
That's a popular thing. Yeah.
Dunno if they're doing it.
I don't see any french fries there.
Ohhhh.
Thank you, brothers.
Thank you, thank you. -You're welcome.
Oh and then it just comes right out.
I wonder if those are ours.
Maybe.
Sometimes it is that fast.
It might be.
Let's see.
It is ours.
Oh, man.
They are our ones.
Wow, that was quick. That was,
literally like one minute, right?
That was fast.
Wow.
Arabic fast food.
Yeah.
This for the wrong table.
The wrong table? Ah.
I thought it was very quick.
I was like "How do you serve it so quick?"
It was like one minute.
No worries. -He's new here, so that's why he have a wrong one.
Ah, okay, okay. -We will bring your order.
Oh, this is the broasted chicken. -Oh, this is the broasted chicken.
Here the broasted chicken.-Spicy?
Yeah, spicy.
Oh, you can see the spice mix on there.
I can smell it through the mask, Trevor.
I can smell it through the mask. -Oh, there must be...
Oh! -It's like, ah...
Ah, here are our shawarmas.
They're all wrapped up.
Okay, so it wasn't one minute, it was two minutes. -Look at that.
Yeah, this looks great.
Ohhhh.
There it is. -Actually, it's really bad etiquette to unwrap it.
So, we can't see what's inside.
And it's sealed.
They've, like, toasted it,
so it's, like, sealed.
Looks good. Oh and there's...
Here's our ayran, yoghurt.
Yeah, here is it.
No, I asked for sugar-free, sugar-free.
Oh.
Yeah.
Thank you brother, thank you. -Thanks a lot.
More calories for eating.
Yeah, exactly.
That's my motto.
No sugar in your drink, means more calories for eating,
consuming as food.
Okay. -Okay.
Yeah.
So this is the shawarma.
I dunno if it's gonna be beef or chicken.
It's gonna be a surprise.
Yeah.
Anything else?
No, thank you brother. -This is good. Thank you.
It's hot here but...
No, it's okay.
It's not too hot. -I wish I'd moved you to the other side, but there is no place.
Ah, because you're too popular?
Too busy? Yes.
Ah, okay. It's okay. No worries.
Okay, I'll wash my hands first.
You have a basin, right?
Hand wash basin? -Yeah, inside.
Okay.
Ah, nice.
Nice and refreshing.
Nice ayran.
Laban.
It's kinda like kefir or something like that.
It's like a kefir drink that you might get in Russia, or somewhere like that,
Oh, like a sour...
Yeah, just a little bit sour.
A little bit sour, kinda drinking yoghurt.
Yeah.
Really refreshing, really cool.
Feeling good.
Needed that, after being outside.
It's like 45 degrees C, right now.
Okay.
So, I dunno what's gonna be in this.
It's either gonna be beef or chicken.
You know, unwrapping your shawarma,
it's a huge faux pas.
Never do it.
People will get angry with you, in fact, if you do that.
You gotta just take it down.
Just taste the bite, right?
They've sealed this, they've sealed it.
It's been toasted and sealed, so
I'll find out, when I take the first bite, what's inside.
And I'm going for it too, so...
Okay, go for it.
Let's take a bite together.
Yeah, cheers. -Cheers.
Mmmm
Oh!
That is delicious.
Mmmm
It's actually very juicy. -Yeah.
It's the mayonnaise that they've used.
It's super sweet, super nice.
Yeah, there's lots of...
Definitely a generous amount of mayo in there.
Yeah, so the bread's all crispy, as you can see.
Look, it's all crisping apart. -Yeah.
And then inside, it's all getting soggy, a little bit, from the mayonnaise.
That's moistening it up a bit
and then these thin layers of chicken are just really tender and tasty.
It's really nice, isn't it?
It's actually very juicy.
But the mayo
gives it that extra
smoothness,
creaminess.
I was right. There are french fries inside.
Oh yeah.
Mmmm
That's good.
Mmm
Oh yeah, french fries inside.
Yeah, they always do that.
That's a standard thing.
They'll stick some french fries inside. -That's the good stuff.
Yeah.
This is Arabic fast food ladies and gentlemen.
When we think about going for a burger or a pizza,
Arabs, they think about going for shawarma.
Going for a delicious shawarma. Yeah, exactly.
Two minutes, you've got this on your table,
and in your mouth.
Mmmm
Wow.
It's delicious.
And it pairs with the hummus.
Mmm
I think we gotta take some hummus. -Oh, we haven't,
We haven't even tried the hummus yet.
Look at this.
Absolutely swimming in olive oil.
Look at that hummus.
Mmm
Can we put the hummus on here?
Is that okay? -Yeah.
Is that how you do it?
So many people try this, but
it's really very tasty when you try it with the meat.
Oh, the beef?
Oh, the beef and the hummus goes well together?
Ah. -Yeah.
It's very special.
Ah, okay. -Okay.
Thanks.
You're welcome. -Okay,
I'm gonna try it with the chicken one anyway. -Yeah.
Then I'll try it with the beef.
I'm tempted to just stick my shawarma in there, but we're sharing.
Yeah. -Okay, so...
Let's just take a... -You got a spoon? Yeah.
Oh yeah, and you can see they add sumac on the top there.
Oh, lot's of fresh olive oil.
It's like ice cream there.
Ohhhh.
Here we go. It's that texture, isn't it?
Oh man, that looks good.
I'm gonna get mine's all oiled up.
Look at that.
Ohhhhh.
I dunno, this is too much hummus, I think.
Look at that, look at that, it's like a hummus...
I think this is too much hummus.
What do you think, guys? -It's like a hummus ice cream.
Yeah, the texture, it's like ice cream, isn't it? -Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna try and fit all this in my mouth. -An ice cream cone.
I dunno how.
Mmm
Mmmmm
Mmm
Oh my.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
It's so creamy, the hummus.
It's so creamy. -So smooth.
It just goes well with the crispy bread around the shawarma.
Mmm
Lovely.
I'm gonna take some more hummus.
That is the joy of life, right there.
You got some pickles now?
Yeah, they've given us these little pickles.
I dunno if you're supposed to eat it with the shawarma
or if it's separate.
Like you take a bite of shawarma, then you take a bite of this.
Or do you actually put it on the shawarma and eat it together?
I think, whatever you like.
I want to ask the guy the proper way to do it,
but for now, I'm gonna do it like this.
I think it's a gherkin, right?
Pickled gherkin, along with my shawarma. -Yeah, nice pickle on there.
Mmmmm
It's good, eh?
Mmm -Sour?
Yeah.
It is sour.
It's sour but then the mayonnaise is sweet,
the chicken's meaty.
It goes together well.
The flavours go together well.
And the hummus is so creamy.
Oh yeah, the hummus as well.
The hummus, the pickles.
That is delicious. -The shawarma mayonnaise.
The chicken.
Lovely jubbly.
I think, that is really delicious.
Brother, do you put this on top of the shawarma and eat together, like this?
Sometimes.
Sometimes?
There is people who have so many good mood, to eat that, like this.
Oh, it's up to you, you can choose?
But some people, they eat the shawarma then this, then like this, right? -Yeah.
And some people, they eat together?
Yeah, and some people ask sometimes, add cheese inside the shawarma.
Ah, okay.
You do that here? You can put cheese inside? -Yeah, yeah.
We put any comment at the shawarma as you want. -Ahhh.
Okay, so you can even put the hummus inside and everything?
Hummus inside, tahini inside, everything.
Without potato, with potato,
with cheese, without cheese.
Whatever you want.
You can have it your way.
That's the motto of burger king.
We were saying this looks like a fast food restaurant.
So it's like, you can have it your way, basically? -Yeah, your way.
Your way, you can have it. Yes, we can remove everything you want,
and put everything you want.
Fantastic.
Fantastic, thank you. -Awesome brother, awesome.
Nice shawarma. -Yeah, mmmmm.
Time for beef. -Oh, yeah.
I thought this was a light meal.
I thought we were going out for a light meal.
I thought we were going out for a shawarma.
We've ended up with two shawarmas each,
and a whole broasted, -We got a beef one now.
a whole broasted chicken and massive tub of hummus.
Okay.
Exactly.
Man, this is, this is a full meal.
A full meal.
Okay, beef.
Beef.
Ohhh.
That's really delicious, man.
The mayo.
Unwrap this little gift. -The juicy chicken.
Oh yeah, look at that.
Look at this, I can see the beef
starting to melt through there.
Ohoho.
Oh, he said I should take it with the hummus.
Try it without the hummus first. -First bite, clean.
First bite, clean.
Mmmm
Oh.
Oh, wow.
Mmm
A little more herbal greens in there, like parsley.
Mmm
So what do you prefer?
I've only had one bite, and I haven't even swallowed it yet,
but I prefer the beef one.
The beef one is amazing.
It's really good.
Very cool. -Have you tried with hummus?
No, next bite is with the hummus. -Yes.
Wow.
And try it with this sauce, also.
This is tahini sauce? -Yeah, here.
What's inside it?
It's, almost it's like tartar.
You know, the tartar sauce with chicken?
Oh, it's almost like tartar sauce? -Yeah.
Ah, okay.
But for meat, for meat? -With sesame, right?
Mmhmm.
Ah.
I'm going for hummus.
Okay, me as well.
It's good quality meat, as well.
They haven't cheaped out on the meat. -Yeah.
You can tell, right?
There's no, like, scraggy bits or anything like that.
It's just pure meat. -No, no, it's pure meat.
Mmmm
Oh, I've dropped it on the table.
It would be a Dale eating food video, if he didn't
drop at least something on the table.
Okay.
Wow.
Beef is actually really soft.
It's too good, it's too good.
And they've added some sort of greens in there as well.
You get a nice little bit of parsley.
Bit of parsley, you're getting, like, a herby taste with it as well.
Mmmmm
It's good.
It's lovely.
But this one's been sitting there a while, so
the shawarma bread's starting to get all soggy, a bit, in the inside, as well.
But it's still crispy on the outside.
The combination of textures is lovely.
Exactly.
I love that crispy,
Mmmm
crispy, toasty, shawarma wrap.
You like the beef one?
Yeah, I like the beef more.
I think I like the chicken.
Wow,
so they said this was one of the best shawarma places in Dubai.
It's the best place I've tried for shawarma in Dubai,
so I'm gonna call it the best shawarma in Dubai,
until such time happens as I find something better,
but I think that's gonna be tough.
I think it's gonna be tough,
to beat this wee beauty,
right there. -Wee beauty.
It's good, man.
It's too good, it's too good.
Yeah.
You could get addicted to these.
They're so good, you could get addicted to them, I think.
Wow.
I love the chicken.
Mmm, and the hummus.
But you prefer the beef, right?
No, I like the chicken.
Oh, you like the chicken one more?
Oh, really? Oh.
Oh. -Yeah.
They're both good,
but I think the chicken,
I enjoy it... I think it's a little bit more juicy.
Mmmm
But both are good.
You going for the tahini?
Yeah, look at that.
It's very, very watery.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. -Careful, careful.
Ohhhhh.
Looks delicious.
Quick, quick. It's all dripping, it's dripping.
Mmmm
Mmm
Mmmm
It's good?
Wow.
Okay, I'll try some. -Sesame.
It's a sour, sesame, tahina.
It's 'tahina'? I was calling it 'tahini'.
It's 'tahina' or 'tahini'?
They call it different things in different regions.
Ah, okay.
Ohhhh.
Oh, too much, too much.
Okay.
Dale makes a mess, as per usual.
Okay.
Oh yeah, go for it man.
Messy food adventures in Dubai. -Go for it.
Mmm
You're right, yeah, it's sesame.
It's a very savoury sesame taste.
A little sour. -Mmmm
And it's a very watery sauce as well,
so it just like,
it soaks into the bread. Look at that.
Oh yeah.
The inside of the bread already soaked with mayonnaise
and now the outside of the bread's soaked with tahini.
Mmmm
Delicious. -Oh, it's too good.
It is too good.
Here is the best place to eat shawarma.
The best place?
This man says the best place in Dubai.
Yes. Yes, yes. -The whole of Dubai, for shawarma?
Ah, okay.
Ohhhhhh.
Broasted chicken. Look at that.
Look at that broasted chicken.
I'm gonna go for the drumstick.
Let's try it out.
Mmm
Oh, wow.
That skin.
It's, like, extremely crispy. -Crispy skin.
Crispy skin and crispy batter.
And spicy.
Mmm
Wow.
Pretty good. -Yeah.
It's almost like KFC times a hundred.
Yeah, but it's less greasy than KFC.
I don't know about the method they've used to fry this,
but you can see, inside, it's kinda just like...
Yeah, it's not as...
Exactly.
It's not greasy or anything inside.
It's like...
Your fingers don't even get covered in grease.
Lovely.
How is it?
Delicious?
Yeah, it's good.
Man, it's like,
I'm saying, the inside of it's not greasy, right?
You know, the inside of it.
It's almost like grilled chicken in the inside. -Yes.
The outside,
you still have the fried chicken taste on the outside.
Yeah. -Mmmm
The whole thigh right here.
I dunno where I should bite.
Just start from here, I think.
Very crispy.
I'm sweating.
He said that this is the worst seat because it's too hot.
All in the inside are, like, colder.
Yeah, when you were washing your hands, he told me.
He said that people get too hot when they sit here.
Yeah, it is a little warm.
So it's not just me that's being a sweaty Scotsman.
It's just, like, the AC blows that way, you know.
But this is busy.
Yeah.
Ever since we came in, every table has been full,
and we're actually taking up,
we're actually, selfishly, taking up four spaces at this place.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna get some more shots of the spinning.
Today is our day for being busy.
Ah, okay, because it's starting the weekend, right? -Yeah.
We're starting the weekend.
Everyone wants to start the weekend on a happy note,
they come to eat shawarma. -Yes, yes, yes.
Ah. -It's too much.
Place is really busy, yeah?
Yeah. -Ah, okay.
And before you want to go,
I really want to take a picture with you.
Oh yeah, before I go.
Yeah, after I wash and everything.
Okay, thank you bro, thank you. -It's good stuff, right?
Oh yeah, this is good.
Broasted chicken.
Thanks a lot, sir. -You're welcome.
Beef shawarma.
Chicken shawarma. It's all good. -It was nice to see you.
Nice to see you too.
That gives the KFC
7, is it 7?
secret herbs and spices
a run for it's money.
Yeah, it's definitely got some kick to it.
Yeah.
A bit hot.
Yeah. -Oh!
A bit hotter and spicier than KFC.
I need some of this laban.
Yeah, oh that'll help.
Balance.
It's too good. -Yeah.
I love the shawarma, I love the chicken shawarma.
It just goes down so smooth.
It just kind of like melts
with juice and flavour
and the mayo
the cucumber, the pickle,
tomato, like it just gives this smooth,
creamy, juicy,
like, chicken
explosion of goodness.
The beef was good too.
I like the beef one better.
You like the beef? -Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Any time you're in Dubai, guys,
if you're coming as a visitor,
and you feel like a McDonalds,
or you feel like a KFC,
you want to come to here or somewhere like this. -Shawarma.
Come to a shawarma place. -Yeah.
Come to a place where...
He said it was like Syrian, a Syrian type of fried chicken.
Yeah. -That's what the guy said.
It's like Syrian spices.
Syrian spiced chicken. -So, yeah,
if you need your fast food fix,
that's what to do.
No need for Micky D's.
Yeah, exactly.
Thank you my brother. -Have a nice day.
Thank you my brother, thank you. -You're welcome.
Ah, okay.
Ohhhhh.
Oh man, we're all shawarma'd up.
Feeling good.
Okay guys. -With a full belly of shawarma.
See you on the next food adventure,
in Dubai. -Sounds good.