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Chicken Shawarma at Zafraan

Marinated chicken, garlic sauce, fresh veggies on Pita. Sandwich Score 45, rough. At Zafraan, Fremont.

A wrap at Zafraan, a restaurant in Fremont, California.

PitaGarlic SauceChickenPita
45
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +25.

Uncharted, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: real textural contrast

Balance
74
Harmony
80
Contrast
15
Structure
68
Focus
100
Composition
30
Quality
100
Envelope
100

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

pita (inferred from the name), served cold: marinated chicken; garlic sauce; fresh veggies.

Balance

salt1.2 · 60thacid0.4 · 40thfat2.3 · 57thsweet0.0umami1.6 · 57thheat0.4 · 79thbitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.260th
acid0.440th
fat2.357th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.657th
heat0.479th
bitter0.0n/a

74 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
pita (inferred from the name)breadsoft chewythe frame
marinated chickenscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+30
garlic saucesaucefat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy+3
fresh veggiesnot scored

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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