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Tofu Shawarma at Zafraan

Grilled tofu, tangy sauces, veggies on soft bread. Sandwich Score 37, rough. At Zafraan, Fremont.

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

PitaTofuPita
37
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +14.

Uncharted, one of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
42
Harmony
38
Contrast
22
Structure
51
Focus
67
Composition
20
Quality
100
Envelope
98

Less salt than almost everything in the catalog.

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.

soft bread, served cold: grilled tofu; tangy sauces; veggies.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Zafraan's typical score.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Tangy Sauce, Mixed Vegetables.

Balance

salt0.0acid0.0fat1.3 · 20thsweet0.0umami0.7 · 19thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.0n/a
acid0.0n/a
fat1.320th
sweet0.0n/a
umami0.719th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

42 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
soft breadscored as Pitabreadsoft chewythe frame
grilled tofuscored as Tofuproteinfat 2 soft silkynot scored
tangy saucesnot scored
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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