Sufllaqe!

So if people in Canada were a little surprised I wanted to come back to Albania, Albanians are flabbergasted. And I joke around with them and tell them various reasons... the weather for one, (I show them a picture of the blizzard we had back in May. ) But I always tell them the big reason is sufflaqes. First off, they're only $1.20 usually, and thats up maybe twenty cents from six years ago. A bottle of coke costs more. And what they do is...

they take a soft pita, coat it in a little bit of oil, fry it up a little...

tzatizi sauce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, lettuce...

then rotisserie pork meat(surprisingly not a problem amongst all these muslims..)

thick cut french fries topped with mayo, ketchup, and mustard.

You'd think all those flavours wouldn't go but they do. So what you do is you use the little plastic fork to eat most of the fries and the sauces till you get down to a point where you can start eating the pita part, which is the best part because the pita is soft and greasy and just plain amazing. Seriously delicious. I've gotten at least one a day since I got here. The other thing they do is a doner, which is the same as a sufflaqe but in a grilled sandwich bun. Needless to say I've gotten to know the owner of the local sufflaqe stand pretty well.