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When it comes to ethnic foods -- particularly Middle Eastern and eastern European -- Hamtramck is a gold mine.
Tom Perkins of Metro Times gives a shout out in his review on Hello Shawarma at 12197 Conant St.:
Hello Shawarma — a Yemeni-owned carryout restaurant that rolls sandwiches in a small space next door to Walter's Party Store in Hamtramck's northeast corner — even gets into what's sort of "Mexican" turf with the shawarma burrito: a package consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around shaved-from-the-spit beef or chicken shawarma, a mix of cheeses, lettuce, tomato, onion, and "Hello sauce," the latter of which is a mix of garlic sauce, mayo, and herbs.
Exhibit B is Hello Shawarma's Shower Burger, which doesn't hold a beef patty, but moist, small chicken shawarma shavings piled between round sesame seed buns with lettuce, tomato, onion, melted shredded cheddar cheese, and Hello sauce. Why is it called a "Shower Burger?" Owner Al-Hareth Malik says it was supposed to be called a "shawarma burger," but the company that made the sign accidentally wrote "shower." Malik and his crew thought it was funny, so here we are.
