What is a Sabich - and how does it taste?

Der Standard, June 5, 2023

German original: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000172876/was-ist-ein-sabich-und-wie-schmeckt-es

Actually a Sabbath breakfast, today a popular take-away dish, at least in Israel: We found a very good Sabich sandwich in Vienna in an underpass underpass.

Sabich, which is served in the same bread as falafel pita, is little known in this country. Israeli street food is traditionally filled with fried melanzani, lettuce, tomatoes, parsley, tahini sauce, sometimes hummus, but almost always with amba, a hot and sour mango sauce, and s'chug, a green sauce made from chili, garlic and coriander. In no case should you forget the boiled eggs. That's because the ingredients of a sabich are derived from the Sabbath breakfast of Iraqi Jews.

According to the story, sabich as a street food, which is offered all over Israel today, has only existed since 1961, when Sabich Tsvi Halab, a Jewish refugee from Iraq, opened a small restaurant in the Tel Aviv district of Ramat Gan and sold sabich as a sandwich.

Today, the family of the street food pioneer still runs a Sabich store near the original location. In Vienna, you can get sabich at Taïm am Schottentor, a small Israeli snack bar in the subway underpass in the direction of U2. The deep-fried melanzani are quite filling, and falafel is also available as an alternative. But that's the subject of another video. (RONDO, Kevin Recher, 5.6.2023)