Maoz Falafel

Remember the vegetarian shop I mentioned? It's called Maoz Falafel.

In fact we had already seen a lot of shops (mostly kebab shops) with falafel on the menu. But we didn't know what it was...on the photos they looked like meatballs.

So one night we decided to go into this falafel shop...we didn't quite know what it was, so we were looking at the menu, trying to decide whether to try it or not (luckily there weren't too many customers) The guy in the shop probably found it obvious that we were new there, so he asked us whether we wanted him to explain stuff to us. So he explained... that he would put the falafel in the pita bread for us, and we would put in whatever salad (veggies, actually, there was coleslaw, tomatoes, cauliflower...and many others) and/or sauce we wanted. And we could "refill" the salad/sauce as many times as we wanted. But... we were still missing a key piece of information.

"What is falafel?"

And he told us that it was chickpeas. He even showed us a jar of chickpeas at the end of the counter. Guess we aren't the only ones who don't know what falafel is made of? Hehe, I hope so!

Here's a half eaten falafel sandwich (I don't know what else to call it):

The brownish one is the whole falafel, the greenish (light green) one is a falafel that's been bitten into.
The dark green and red parts are sauce, and I think you should have no trouble making out the salad!

It was good! The falafel was fried, I think, so the exterior was quite crispy.

Then while eating, I happened to turn the paper (he handed us the pita bread in a paper pocket, as you can see in the photo) around to look at it:


Huh? It's in Paris?? I've got to go looking for it!
(I tried going to the website but it's not working)