Which is the King of the Wrap-Based Snacks

[Firky]

Round our way you can get any curry you like.. anglicised, traditional, regional, etc.

I have never had a bought curry like a proper "authentic" curry as cooked by my Sri Lanken flatmate or my mate from Trinidad who's mum used to bring the best food in the world over. Argh, I miss her.

"FIRKY! You need fattening up bwoy, I won't stop until you're as big as me."

 

[twistedAM]

I might pop round the corner to Negril for a roti.
is that advisable tarranau?
the rest of their food is really good.
Been in R23 btw?

 

[Firky]

I hate these things:

 

[perplexis]

I've never had a roti, and now I really really want one.
But it's stir-fry tonight. Not quite the same. I'm literally dribbling at the thought of chickpea flour bread. Mmmmmm

 

[moonsi til]

A vote for roti and most specifically all the ones I ate from street vendors in Sri Lanka. These rotis were folded into tightly packed triangles filled to the corners with lush spices and veggies. In addition a great place we found to eat was Roti Shack just up from Unawatuna beach although here the roti we ate the bread was used in strips and kinda panfried. We had 2 to share 1 with loads of veg , salad, olives, spices and then another chocolate based one. My BF kept saying he was going to bring one of the triangle rotis home so he could disect it.

 

[oddworld]

WTF is a roti ?

 

[Firky]

indian bread type thing

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The donair/falafel.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donair:

 

[tarannau]

That's so not a contender Johnny, although it must taste better than it looks. Surely?

Worth noting that there's a bit of a difference with the way rotis can be served around the world. All stem from the indian subcontinent, but they're arguably even more popular and prominent in parts of the Windies now.

 

[Tank Girl]

having had neither, going by this thread alone, I'd go for a roti I think.

I'm hungry now.

 

[Kanda]

Roti by an Urban mile!

Or a Doner Kebab wrap

 

[Spion]

Shawarma (in a street in Jordan or Syria)

Or a kebab roll in Bradford

 

[tarannau]

For tarannau

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvlMDUSHYo

I have this in my youtube faves

Blimey, and I thought I made making roti look hard. That's one giant beast of a roti. Love the 'beating' action to get rid of the flour - when it's a smaller version you can kind of 'handclap' the thing, sending a puff of flour out.

Depressingly I'm shit at making rotis, despite my gran's passed down cast-iron tawa (a flat griddle thing). Every so often I fluke a passable, simple Indian style one, so I'm inconsistent AND crap really. Whereas my mum seems to make the fluffiest things effortlessly, making potato roti, chana roti and the normal type without any problems. Guttingly pre-made rotis are beyond shit too. so there's no shortcut.

So it's to Trinis with me. Sorry Tanky - I'd love to give you and the dodgepots the full roti experience, but it's the gaping hole in my culinary armoury. One day I'm going to kidnap a large number of aged relatives and lock them in a kitchen for a w/e, forcing them to show me the ways of the roti. They're not going to pass away without giving me their secrets.

 

[Tank Girl]

I can wait

 

[Juice Terry]

Some of my wrap based highlights:-

Veggie Burritos on Haight Ashbury
Falafel sandwich in Engineer's kebab shop, Aqaba
Onion Ravi Masalla Dosas in Saravana Bhavan's, Kennet Lane, Chennai.

hmmm all good

 

[Kanda]

Does Meatball sub count?

 

[Melinda]

Shawarma (in a street in Jordan or Syria)

Or a kebab roll in Bradford

I was searching this thread for a mention of Shwarma, its simply the best street food. Personally Id go for the Palestinian variety, with chilli sauce and a garlicky mayonaise.

I had a gorgeous chicken kebab wrap in Athens which had me licking the paper. The bread was huge, a riddiculous amount of spiced meat was sliced into it, then salad and spiced sauce.

Im hungry now.

 

[seeformiles]

I would like to put a vote in for an item overlooked here so far - spiced pork in a golden pastry wrap (and the king of wrap-based snacks) - the Sausage Roll!

 

[tarannau]

Does Meatball sub count?

Nah, because there's rarely/barely any real meat in the balls, nor any submarine in the roll. Duplicitious rubbish.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Both of them lose to the kebab wrap things they do in Turkey... ooh, cripes, they're lovely.

 

[pogofish]

Never had a Roti but here, most Burittos are vile slop, wrapped.

A fried chicken wrap can sometimes be quite nice, if you find a shop that puts a decent mix of ingredients in it (eg fresh salad/chillis etc).

 

[Biddlybee]

Shawarma (in a street in Jordan or Syria)

One of these, with tahini sauce and nothing else Proper meat, lovely bread,lush sauce... I'm hungry

I voted other - but a shawarma is not substandard nonsense!

(out of your two choices a roti wins hands down )

 

[pogofish]

Does Meatball sub count?

Nah, that is a prepacked shit delivery system.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Used to love the rotis made by my mate Fitzroy's mum, especially the occasional whole Scotch Bonnet that turned up! Never had a shop-bought one though.

I notice no-one has mentioned the fairly ubiquitous to South London "Kebab roll", roti or chapati wrapped around a shish kebab and salad, and chilli source poured into the open end. Too ashamed, probably although I used to like 'em after a night of beer intake ).

 

[Orang Utan]

They all be shit

 

[ViolentPanda]

Both of them lose to the kebab wrap things they do in Turkey... ooh, cripes, they're lovely.

There used to be a proper Turkish restaurant down the dip on Streatham high road back in the early 90s that did several different types of them, different meats, fish, etc. They were lovely.

 

[ViolentPanda]

They all be shit

Fucking leaf-eating long-armed freak!

 

[Spion]

I was searching this thread for a mention of Shwarma, its simply the best street food. Personally Id go for the Palestinian variety, with chilli sauce and a garlicky mayonaise.

Im hungry now.

Me too

The best ones I remember were from a stall in a street in Amman and were with minty yoghurt. MMMMMMM

(out of your two choices a roti wins hands down )

Roti? My usual Bradford kebab roll actually comes as two seekh kebabs in a naan

You can make a passable shawarma by whizzing left over lamb in a food processor with onion, garlic, allspice, salt, pepper, lemon juice. It's lush.

in Egypt i also luuurve fuul in a pitta too


(note to self - need a trip to the ME for street food)

 

[tarannau]

Fucking leaf-eating long-armed freak!

Bloody Northern pie-eating freak too. Not a bloody clue about the glory of roti up there - they're too busy thinking up 77 different names for a fucking bread roll. Honestly, it's like Eskimos and multiple names for snow.