ozzieeagle

I'd advise all new arrivals, particularly those to Melbourne and Sydney to take note of this TV Show. It epitomises a huge facet of inner urban life in both the major Cities. I've personally not seen such a huge slice of Australian urban culture portrayed warts and all in such a condensed form.

I particularly like the way it shows how the cultures here mix, I recognise all the scenarios played out in the first episode of this show. I've seen them all in my 35 years here. Coburg where I live has more Kebab shops on it's major shopping strip than anywhere in Melbourne.... I wouldn't be surprised if it had more than anywhere else in Australia.

So if you want to see a huge slice of the life I see here... not all of it by any means, watch this show. It really goes a long way to introducing people to how the Inner Burbs work.

carolinephillips

Kebabs?

Beoz

I could eat them every day if it wasn't for the varied diet advice.

mulben

Looks interesting
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video...47/kebab-kings

Kim67

Looks like a good show. I love kebabs! !

Amazulu

Aussie kebabs shit all over UK kebabs

Ethnic minorities running businesses, employing people, paying taxes and providing late-night sustenance - aka not being assholes

Assimilating and integrating - illustrating the failure of multiculturalism

What's not to like?

Kim67

Is Plaka Kebab still going? It used to be on Murray Street near Pinochios in the good old days and moved to Norrhbridge. Best 3am feed you can have (besides the old Fast Eddies).

Amazulu

It's still in Northbridge. The best one in that area is the place next to the Mustang Bar

The best in Perth is City Kebabs on Murray Street

I'm hungry now

Kim67

Me too. BBQ time in a couple of hours.

ozzieeagle

Blimey the only people I've ever met that dont like aus kebabs are Vegetarians. ?

Chicken. ...salad garlic sauce and home made turkish bread...or lamb ....???????


Have you had an aussie one.....they're not made from anything artificial at all.



And Zulu to my mind this show potrays multiculturalism at its finest....including the gay culture in the Melbourne example.

Kim67

My kids like home made ones with Greek lamb, tzaiki and salad on a wrap in the sandwich press.

Geordie George

Toasted lettuce is the work of the devil.

Kim67

I agree, had to be spinich and rocket in the toaster.

ozzieeagle

The show is more about Urban Aus than Kebabs from my POV.

I think the show in particular shows how Multiculturaism works in Aus with people still keeping their traditions whilst living in an Australian environment. It's definitely what I see every day around here. We would have at least 6 different cultures coming together in Coburg. IE: The Lebanese Kebab shop has a totally different feel to the Turkish Kebab shop.... yet they all talk English to me and other Aussie speakers and there is no us and them about it. Same with the Chinese, Thai's Vietnamese, Indians and Africans around here. We are all just locals.... You can tell an outsider or someone from the bush very easily though...They look at our locals like they've just come from another planet.... and seem hesitant to talk to them in a normal fashion.

Yet when talking with their own cultures, which makes up a lot of their individual cliental they go back to their own language and it gives that particular environment that ethnicities feel. This to me is Multiculturalism in action.

carolinephillips

I would never put a shop bought kebab in my mouth. That ghastly rotating greasy stack of coagulated goo that is supposed to be meat, hanging there for days is enough to put me off. Just as I would not eat a burger either, unless I made it at home myself.

I am NOT a vegetarian, just careful what I put in my mouth. (I also have specific dietary needs which means I shouldn't have gluten, choleaterol raising food, dairy or spices etc.....) I don't eat out much.