AAAHHHHH! Manila got me immediately. Now I don't know how to unsee this.

About a month ago, I stumbled upon an English-speaking comedian who (quite fairly) roasts famous chefs. Being a Chinese guy from Malaysia, he's especially passionate about fried rice. It's his thing, you know. The video with Jamie Oliver is a masterpiece (watch it if you haven't).

Watching the video was fun, but standing on a noisy Manila street outside a shawarma stand, I really felt the pain in what they were doing. I have no idea why they called it shawarma – the only shawarma thing about it is that they set up a spit, skewered the meat, and turned on the fire. But then everything went downhill. The guy cuts RAW meat, turns it into ground meat with knives, somehow it barely becomes half-cooked in the process, and then it goes into a mini wok, where they wrap it in flatbread with vegetables whenever someone orders. Yikes.