You can laugh at it until tomorrow, but you would die for such a sandwich in your city

We visited Petah Tikva.

And after we finished running all the hassles over the infamous city in our heads, we got to Mom's sandwich, we kept laughing, but this time for all the right reasons

David Rosenthal

17/05/2022

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 8 p.m.

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Who defeated Challah in his mother's sandwich (Photo: David Rosenthal)

Sometimes a few words are enough to convey a whole experience, a world and its fullness.

The famous Ernest Hemingway said that the story in which he was most proud of all his works included only six words: "For sale baby shoes, never worn."

But even the great Hemingway did not know how to summarize enough, so take a whole world in three words: "I visited Petah Tikva."

Petah Tikva has over the years become the object of jokes.

She earned it honestly, so a sentence like the one written above immediately evokes all the senses of ridicule and laughter.

The thing is that cynicism aside, in recent years beautiful things have also happened in the city.

The Em Hamoshavot neighborhood, the high-tech boulevard developed in Kiryat Arie, the many shopping centers and of course its location in Gush Dan give Petah Tikva a touch of a place that is worth exploring.

The city center, if we really admit it, is still neglected and in need of improvement.

Pinsker Street, corner of Stampfer, Weizmann Square, is a dusty and unremarkable area.

Honestly, if you have not opened up to experienced hopes that go around there, you probably will not know that right on the street corner sits a tiny workers' restaurant called "Mom's Sandwich."

How tiny?

Let’s say the menu there includes only four dishes.

That's tiny.

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Insanely delicious, but a little more sauce, friends (Photo: David Rosenthal)

Among the dishes offered - Sabih schnitzel, Friday schnitzel and vegetable patties - I was going to go for the fourth, the one that particularly appealed to me - a sweet challah with matbucha and meat patties in tomato sauce.

I was unlucky and arrived on Sunday.

"On Sunday there is no fresh meat yet so there are no patties," the kind girl at the counter told me, "I hope you did not come for that."

The truth is that for that I came, but life has prepared us for mishaps and people born to lead have to make difficult decisions, what's more a place waiting for fresh meat to prepare the food (and you know, there are enough not) is a place worthy of an initial compliment.

Since I was winking at the stuff of leaders, I changed my mind and went for the schnitzel order.

A place hidden to the tools.

Mother's sandwich with a closed-open door (Photo: David Rosenthal)

It's a simple matter, it's a challah with schnitzel and eggplant with matbucha.

Before we move on to the good things, and there are quite a few, let's start as good Israelis in the complaint: Guys, put more than a kitchen.

One of the most notable shortcomings of the subway chain in Israel, and perhaps one of the reasons for its lack of success here despite years of assimilation experience, is the frugal seasoning in relation to Europe or the United States. The sauce dripped from the bun to the point of lack of control. That was not the case.

And after we closed this corner, we'll move on to the good news - the dish itself - and declare it excellent, and not even thanks to the schnitzel. One ingredient that makes this dish sublime - has begun. Many places will serve you a standard bun, something that moves between reasonable and good.

Eggplant can be trapped in a sandwich.

It is not always well made, it often does not fit well.

But here, too, a dose of foie gras for Mom's sandwich.

The eggplant is ideally made, dresses on the schnitzel excellently and gives the bite a heavenly flavor.

As mentioned, with a little more sauce it was a perfect sandwich, but even so it can be said that not only did I enjoy it, but I hurried to take two dishes for the guys from work to experience their opinions.

It was no different from mine, including the feedback on the sauce.

So not 10, let's settle for 9.

In the picture there is more than a kitchen.

We'll be back to check it out Monday through Friday.

Meatballs of Mom's Sandwich (Photo: Official Website, "Mom's Sandwich" Facebook Page)

"Mom's Sandwich" is not a place that works with massive self-marketing.

It is small, does not stand out and in fact its closed doors made me think it was not open until I pushed them lightly.

It may only produce four types of sandwiches, but the one I tasted makes me think the other three are a success story as well.

It's insanely delicious and fun to pargan for a place like this.

Just Bhai, guys, put more than kitchen.

Like in that picture you post on Facebook.

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