 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosil bringing this video on a typical Friday here in Jerusalem the hour went back in Israel last Sunday so that means that because Jerusalem is a city that pretty much functions according to the Shabbat, Shabbat is going to come in early now so places close in the winter time for Shabbat once the hour goes back like literally one o'clock you're trying to do groceries you're trying to get food and it becomes really difficult so we went on a bit of a crawl around the city my wife and I trying to find somewhere we eventually found this place called Hashemayn it's one of the most famous of the various warmer places in the city and this is pretty much what a typical falafel joint looks like in Israel I thought I'd record it you go up to the you know glass base where the guys bring the ingredients together and you tell them what they want there's a choice of sauces typically tahini which is sesame seed sauce amba which is a kind of fenugreek and mango sauce super super delicious and then you put it together all in front you tell them what the guy wants my wife went for a shawarma in salad which is one of the options you can also get your shawarma on a plate or you can get shawarma in pita or laffa laffa is also called in Hebrew ehtanur and it's like kind of a flat bread so it's a bigger portion size typically cost a little bit more so this is Hashemayn I'm going to tuck into some food now and show you guys some ingredients if you want to order your own falafel in Hebrew what's up friends you've made it to the falafel opan 101 the key vocab you need to order falafel in Hebrew which is one of the first things you need to know how to do in Israel because once you know how to order falafel and beer you're basically set to start off life in Israel sort of half kidding so what I'm gonna do here I'm going to give you guys the words for offering for ordering the kind of typical toppings that you can get at one of these falafel places like Hashemayn where I ordered food today bearing in mind of course that no two falafel places tend to offer the exact same set of toppings it's kind of idiosyncratic often influenced by where the owners are from so a Yemenite owner might have slightly different toppings than a Ashkenazi Jewish owner but there are some staples that you're gonna probably be able to find in pretty much any falafel place you go to whether you're ordering falafel or shawarma or sabiq now just one point before we get into the vocab kosher or kashrut in Israel there's kind of three different classifications within kosher a place can be basari which means that it's serving meat products a place can be halavi which means it's serving dairy products or a place can be parv which is serving neither meat nor dairy so not every falafel place will serve shawarma because that would make it a meat thing so you're gonna find falafel places that only do falafel and then places that do shawarma and falafel and the reason for all this is that in kashrut or the laws of kosher Jews can't eat milk and meat together or in very close succession to one another okay let's start off with sauces for classic sauces that you're going to see at these places firstly is hummus now I tend to pronounce my Hebrew in a kind of more Mizrahi style so I'm gonna force myself to be guttural for the sake of this video most Israelis were pronounced it hummus with a guttural het sound so there's hummus which is the first hummus is a chickpea spread famous worldwide now probably doesn't need an introduction second thing you're gonna find at these places all the time is tahini tahini means sesame seed paste and again it's probably better to pronounce it tahini or tahina unless you see that the owner is from an Arab speaking country and then he's probably gonna love your Mizrahi accent okay next one is amba now amba is probably less famous outside of Israel the Middle East the Arab world it is fenugreek and mango spread if you've never had it just wait till you have it you're probably gonna smell of it for days but it's super delicious and it came to Israel to the best of my knowledge was popularized by the cooking of Iraqi Jews because they use a big in their cuisine finally we have Harif or Harif so Harif is hot sauce and when you order Harif in an Israeli hummus or falafel place you're gonna be typically getting something like shrug which is like the hot sauce is popular among Yemenite Jews I have to make a couple of notes here regarding eating falafel in non-kosher places like in East Jerusalem Palestinian East Jerusalem or Palestinian parts there are some slight differences the hot sauce in Arabic is pronounced shata and shata is slightly different than shrug I'm personally or what is really is called Harif I'm personally a huge fan of shata it's popular in Saudi Arabia particularly all right then let's get into the salad so firstly we're gonna have agvaniott agvaniott is tomatoes usually finely chopped tomatoes of the kind you saw in this video then we're gonna have malphafon malphafon is cucumbers I was blanking on the English word for a second there usually these are separated because not everyone digs either tomato or cucumber but sometimes you will see the mix together if they're mixed together you can just ask for salat salat means salad and unqualified it's usually understood to mean the classical basic Israeli salad or also sometimes called Arab salad depending on where your political leanings are and the basic Israeli salad is just tomato cucumbers and sometimes a little bit of lemon mixed together next one we have here is hamutsim hamutsim is it means pickles and it's typically pickled cucumbers now this is an interesting one because it definitely lacks a bit of a tangy lens a bit of a tangy quality to your falafel some people love it some people don't probably one of the more divisive falafel ingredients to the extent that falafel additions can be divisive next we have a salad turkey salad turkey means in English Turkish salad and what it typically is in Israel is sort of a tomato based a bit of onions going on a little bit of tamarind as well for that again slight tanginess and sometimes a small bit of paprika a kind of not hot pepper and it's a super delicious this is the one you won't see everywhere they didn't have it at Hashemain today so again there's slight variations and that's what makes each falafel stand slightly different than the next one all right let's keep going next thing you're going to find at most of these places is kruv lavan kruv kruv means cabbage and lavan means white so kruv lavan means white cabbage it's typically a shredded white cabbage of the sort you saw here next let's get into onions bat sal is how you say onion in Hebrew unqualified unqualified at a falafel place it typically just means raw white onions then it's also very common to have bat sal metugan bat sal metugan means fried onion and it's just kind of fried onion you can see the difference because bat sal metugan obviously it's fried so it's kind of a little bit brown and caramelized and glistening with oil and it's definitely fattier than just raw onion of course next one is a bat sal im sumac sumac is one of the few words that are exactly the same in Hebrew and English sumac is of course a spice i actually think it's a fruit berry but don't quote me on that it again ends a kind of lens a kind of zingy lemony flavor and bat sal and sumac is just onions topped off with a bit of sumac chasa is lettuce and this actually is not one you're going to see in every single falafel place don't ask me why some places don't offer lettuce and often in these falafel places you'll see that they have a kind of side section which is going to have some kruv lavan and jalapeño peppers you can just kind of put into these little plastic containers to sort of add extra stuff in the next word that's going to be very useful is chips now chips in Hebrew because of the way that Hebrew is pronounced they tend to pronounce it more like chips chips and that is chips now some people and sorry for it for the Americans listening to this if there are any i should say that means fries and not potato chips so fries slash chips are definitely not something everyone loves in their falafel but it is common to roll it in more common i think if you're ordering lafa next one is hazi lem hazi lem or hazi lem is a fried eggplant and this is again something super popular in the more Sephardic Arabic world i think it's delicious but it's very very fatty it's deep fried and the eggplant just mops up an insane quantity of oil so if like me you're trying to keep on a lower fat diet probably don't frequent these falafel places that regularly but if you do the ones to avoid i would say would be the hazi lem and the batsalamatou gan because those are both kind of saturated in oil and oh and i want to give you two quick more quick words to help the process kitzat means a little bit and you can combine this with any words and harbay means a lot so kitzat and harbay so you can say for for instance tainli kitzat hamutsim give me a little bit of hamutsim of pickles tainli harbay kharif now that literally translates to give me a lot of chili which in english would probably not be polite to speak like that to a server but hebrew is a good deal more informal and these things are generally not perceived as being impolite or if you want to be extra polite say bavakisha which means please you could say kharif bavakisha or harbay kharif bavakisha it's always nice to be polite hope this was informative if you're learning hebrew the first thing you need to know is how to order a beer we'll do that another day and how to order falafel with lots of delicious toppings if you do want to get more videos about topics like this living in israel and uh you know whatever else i talk about do consider subscribing thank you guys for watching another video