Today we had shawarma, a street food from Israel that was eaten by the Avengers😍…
When it is cooking, it looks like a skewer of sliced meats compacted together and hung over a fire to roast.
then the server slices it off and places it on a pita and you can choose toppings, like the ones pictured below…
Once you are done decorating your beautiful shawarma, you eat it! And that’s really all there is.
It’s 3:00pm and we just had some lunch, so I thought I could educate you on the foods of Israel that we bought, so here’s some facts and opinions on our little Israel munchies:
🍞the bread is made with chocolate, date-fig stuff and poppyseed
🍴most of the pastries are savory, with flaky, salty outsides and a cream cheese like filling
🍠the mangos are HUGE 
this is a regular size plate and the biggest hunk is the pit of the one mango we bought
The figs are super delicious and very fresh, mom usually dislikes figs, but we all love these.
The pomegranate has no bad spots and is delicious
🍫the chocolate cookies are actually chocolate date fig stuff cookies and Emma doesn’t like them, but I think they’re ok
🍅the tomatoes are super fresh, somewhat crunchy, and have pointy ends
🍍the pineapple hasn’t been cut into yet… But it looks slightly different, the leaves are covered in little spikes! 
One of the few things we found labeled in English was this mango passion fruit soda and it is delicious. Dad bought grapefruit soda too, but only he likes that.
What I thought was milk actually turned out to be yogurt
(may we pause for a moment to appreciate the weirdness of that word?YOGURT!)
And it’s somewhat sour with an interesting flavor that I think would be good on chicken. Emma dislikes it.
The granola has not been tried yet.
Passion fruit were available, and I really enjoy them spread on bread with cream cheese, which is softer and easier to spread here.
I think that’s about it!
Thank you for reading this and if you have any questions about food or our trip, feel free to ask in the comments. You can also subscribe to this blog and get notified when we post something new. I will update this shortly after we eat the pineapple 🍍
-Magen Naef🐢
Hello everyone!
We have finally arrived in Israel and have had a exciting trip… Thanks to my Best Yes small group there was only one crying baby incident at around 8:00 North Carolina time, and it was over quickly. Our flight over the Atlantic was extremely cool- there were personal tv screens with free headphones that were loaded with new movies! I watched inside out, monsters university, avengers age of ultron, and then finally got to sleep😜
Now we’re here in Tzfat and miraculously got to our room by 3:00 when everything shuts down for Yom Kippur. we were completely lost, mom and dad didn’t have their cell phones, and the neighborhood we were in didn’t have many English speaking people. So we stopped and prayed, then kept on asking random strangers for directions! Finally, we met a guy who not only did his best to give us directions, but called the owner of our rental, got in the car with us, directed us all the way there, then walked away, all the way back to the place he met us. We found out after that dad’s wallet had been right underneath his feet- but it was untouched! the people of Israel are so nice, and i was really surprised at the generosity of that man, who was totally an answer to our prayers.
Shalom!
(that’s the word for Hello, Bye, and Peace)
-Magen
p.s. you pronounce Tz in Tzfat like ZZ in Pizza