walla, sabich

sabich
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I went out for a scooter ride today with my friend Ran. He's a great tour guide, which means he drags me out of bed, explains everything as we pass it, and is game for multiple coffee stops.

He insisted multiple times that we stop for sabich, which is an Iraqi dish. It looks like everything else here - pita stuffed with this and that. The that in this case is fried eggplant, egg, potato, hummus, tahina, mango pickle and spicey whatever.

Here's the cool thing which I just found out upon coming home and raving about my new favorite food. - sabich is an acronym which stands for "Sim Beytzah Od Chatzil" - Put in the egg, More eggplant. I love it. I've heard tell already of a place in Ramat Gan where I can get sabich from a crazy dude who speaks in his own sabich language where tahina is 1 and harif (spice) is 2, and you have to learn the codes to get anything to eat. Sounds like a plan.