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Kapsalon / Hairdresser
By Jeroen Laven
21-02-2007 /views: 1305 in past 12 months.
Kapsalon (Hairdresser)Already a Rotterdam phenomenon: the calory bomb Kapsalon.
No haircutting is involved.
It’s the name for a dish that’s made of shoarma, chips, cheese, salad and sauce. Eat one and you don’t have to (or want to?) eat the rest of the day.
No haircutting is involved.
It’s the name for a dish that’s made of shoarma, chips, cheese, salad and sauce. Eat one and you don’t have to (or want to?) eat the rest of the day.
It was one of the phenomena in Rotterdam in 2006. 2007 will be the year when we discover if it’s going to be a (inter)national success, or if it will just be a short fashion. The health institutes would definitely prefer the latter.
The story goes that Kapsalon was invented in the Shoarma-restaurant El-Aviva in Rotterdam Delfshaven. They have been selling the dish since 3 or 4 years.
The name Kapsalon is supposed to come from the hairdresser that is located ten meters from the shoarma place: Kapsalon Tati. They used to order shoarma with chips. Later they wanted to add cheese and sauces. When they sent people over to the shoarma-restaurants they said: ask for a Kapsalon, and the shoarma sellers will know what is meant.
By now you can find Kapsalons in shoarma-restaurants all over Rotterdam. It’s something people had to get used to. Rotterdam already new the also interesting combination of international phone-shops and hairdressers; so quite a few people presumed a new (strange) industry had emerged where baking shoarma and getting a haircut was actually taking place in the same room. But now we know the truth.
Here's a series of photos (by David O'Connor) of the process of eating a Kapsalon
Here's a series of photos (by David O'Connor) of the process of eating a Kapsalon
If you don’t have time to come to Rotterdam and get a live Kapsalon, you can try and cook one yourself. Here’s the receipy.
Cook your own Kapsalon
Ingredients:
Aluminium bowl and plastic fork
100 grams of shoarmameat and herbes
A handful of chips
Two slices of cheese
Cut salad, tomato and cucumber
Garlic sauce and peppersauce (sambal in Dutch)
Fry the chips. Add herbs to the shoarma and prepare it the usual way. Put the chips in the bottom of the bowl, put the shoarma on tip. Add sauces as you please. Put the cheese on top, put it in the oven or under a grill. Add some salad, tomato and cucumber to dress the dish up. Stick in your fork and start eating!
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Ingredients:
Aluminium bowl and plastic fork
100 grams of shoarmameat and herbes
A handful of chips
Two slices of cheese
Cut salad, tomato and cucumber
Garlic sauce and peppersauce (sambal in Dutch)
Fry the chips. Add herbs to the shoarma and prepare it the usual way. Put the chips in the bottom of the bowl, put the shoarma on tip. Add sauces as you please. Put the cheese on top, put it in the oven or under a grill. Add some salad, tomato and cucumber to dress the dish up. Stick in your fork and start eating!
Every friday on Inspiring Cities a lost or found function in the city is published.
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Lost: a function that was once popular but is now (almost) gone
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If you want to help build the collection:
Mail a photo + short story about your lost or found function to
mailto: jeroen.laven@erasmuspc.com
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