I was parking my car outside Sultan Center in Salmiya when I first spotted this place. Its located in the backside area near the clinic and because of the name I felt I had to try their shawermas.
After I was done shopping I put the bags in the trunk of my car and walked over to Shoo? Shawerma to order some food. I ordered two chicken shawermas with no pickles and a coke. Total price? 800fils. I was like “fuckin A” this must be some seriously good shawerma if they are charging 350 a piece for it. So, I picked up my two shawermas and headed to the car where I started eating them.
After my first bite I turned around and told Nat this was a 2.5, but the more I ate it the more I hated it. The shawerma was really bad, like really bad. It tasted really greasy and the garlic flavor was no where to be found so there was nothing to cover up the god awful taste of the chicken. It was so bad that once I was done with my first shawerma I threw the second one away. I had NEVER done that before!
Now if this was any ordinary crappy place selling shawermas for 200fils then I might expect something this bad, but 350fils for a shawerma, thats the big league, fuck that, thats the super league. Most top scoring shawerma places charge 300 fils for a shawerma and this joint was charging 350 for the worst shawermas I have ever had. Even the Pepsi can was the small 250ml one, who still sells these, even Bader Al Badoor sells the 330ml Coke cans!
So super high price, small Pepsi can, and most importantly the worst shawerma I have ever experienced in my life earned this place half a star out of a possible five. It only got that half star because if I was stuck in the desert with no food except for their shawerma then I would consider eating it.
16 replies on “Review: Shoo? Shawerma”
Mark, you have to try Abu Khodhour in Hawally.. Delicious!!
Abu Khodhour in Hawally was good when they first opened like3 or 4 years ago. Now its really dirty.
I told you that and I will again, you should try the Dhaia Coop shawerma.. its the best!
did u get their haifa wahbi shawerma or the viagra one?
I thought the 250ml Pepsi can was the normal and standard ones for Pepsi and 330ml was found only in supermarkets and special shops (~rarely).
Coke on the other hand is 330ml…
:: Man i missed Shawerma ;/ btw did you try Shalawe6 ?
i don’t know if u tried kurdo’s chicken shawemra i really love them they wrap them in 9aj bread and it’s s0 light but my fave shawerma is 99 shawerma i ask them to put them in 9aj also ,u gotta try them 😉
frankom i tried their taouk and the garlic stuck with me for 4 days after. i will try their shawerma but their garlic is just super strong.
zab0006a, i tried kurdo. their garlic is mostly mayonaise which i dont usually like but the shawerma is pretty greasy. i would rate it somewhere around 3 to 3.5
Restaurant 99 have good shawerma.
There is no place to dine like home. Even if i ended up eating some olives(black/green), hot Iranian bread, beans (Nikhee/bajelah), and a hot cup of milk … that would be my best dinner ever 😉
:: LOL ! i think you’ll face the same problem then with shawerma 🙂
Ahhh, the good old shawerma, it’s been months since the last time I had some, actually the last time I had a shawerma was about 5, 6 months ago in Toronto, the shawerma there are damn expensive (like everything else!), one shawerma costs about $4.5 Canadian which is about KD1.
I guess I’m gonna have some tonight, if not, it’s gonna be sometime soon.
The best shawerma is in Restaurant 99 in Kuwait City, OMG taste their Meat Shawerma in Sajj Bread with tomatoes and extra sha66a only! You will love it
kurdu is shit expensive, dontcha think?