Recent Shuk Adventures

So we went months without mentioning Machane Yehuda, and now two posts in a month. Craziness. But there have been some notable recent purchases and adventures, so let's go with it!

Two Sundays ago, I bought everything pictured here for 10 Shekels and 50 Agurot. It was on the "sale" side of one of the kiosks, items that were aboooout to go bad. So I consider the reach achievement that I used it all!

And a couple days ago purchases included:

Three Shekels worth of potatoes. Get it, it's a  3?

One and a half kilo of these babies for 10 Shekels. That's 3.3 pounds!

And 3 Shekels worth of carrots

And reveling in our deals of the day, we stopped for a late lunch/early dinner/snack/meal at the famous Azoura restaurant in the Iraqui Shuk. I don't know anything about the Iraqui Shuk, only that it's right next to the "regular" Shuk, but people have been telling us to get ourselves to Azoura forever.  And wow. They are right. We had Kubeh Soup, and an order of "Hummus Basar", Hummus and Meat.

Kubeh Soup. Check out the pickle on the left. Pickle in soup? Delicious. 

Tasting...

Trying to feed Eitan, Eitan trying to feed me his hand.  The soup was better...

A bite of Hummus Basar on Pita. With real kavanah.

I've never heard of either of these before we got here. Kubeh soup is amazing. It's a soup base with these balls, that are like almost matza balls with meat inside. This Kubeh soup is a little bit pickly/sour, and a little bit spicy, and so so good. And the Hummus Basar, well that's really exactly what it is, a plate of Hummus, with some ground meat on top. Both incredible. We each at half and switched. Eitan stuck with the pickles and pita. Go. Don't wait months like we did. Just go. And know they'll be a line. There was a 2:30pm on a random Tuesday. And there's a guy at the door that takes down your name and calls out to you when something opens. And the reciept is a  plain piece of paper with what your ordered and how much it costs, no address, no phone number, no "form" and probably no credit cards (I came prepared for once!).