Sassoon Chicken May 14, 2010

Periodically, I get weird cravings, whether it be McDonald's French Fries dipped in Soft Serve Ice Cream, or Ketchup on my fried rice. I recently had a sudden craving for Falafel and I'm always on the lookout for good Lebanese food someplace closer than Anaheim. Thanks to yelp, I found out about Sassoon Chicken. A mere 10 minute from my workplace, I had to give this place a try.

Whenever I visit Zankou, I usually inhale three wraps in the span of about 10 minutes. So I mirrored my usual Zankou order at Sassoon and ordered a chicken shawerma wrap, a beef shawerma wrap and a falafel wrap. Falafel, in case you didn't know, is THE greasy comfort food that people in the middle east indulge in. Interestingly enough, it's a food that's popular with both Israelis and Palestinians both. Sassoon chicken is a small mom and pop store in a strip mall in Orange. Pop took my order, mom prepared my order and poor junior was outside cleaning graffiti off of all of the windows. I went early and was the only patron in the restaurant, which is never a good sign to me.

I received my order about 15 minutes later and took my food back to the office.

I started off with the falafel. The falafel was tasty and perfectly crispy. The flatbread was fresh, which is always nice. I really despise stale flatbread.










After inhaling this delicious wrap, I moved onto the chicken shawerma wrap next. The chicken was flavorful and tender. The fresh tomatoes provided a nice sharp flavor to contrast the strong garlic sauce.










The final wrap was the beef shawerma wrap. Now out of all of the wraps, this one was the most disappointing. The beef was dry as if it had been sitting on the spit all day. Since I appeared to be the first customer of the day, I guess I'm not really surprised that my beef shawerma was dry, but it was disappointing nevertheless.






How far would I drive to get it? 15 minutes. It's okay, but hopefully it could be better.