Shakofa Rezaie

Professor Tiffany

English 101

Comparing Afghani restaurant to American restaurant  

I went to the Papa Joe’s restaurant I did review on it, and I want to compare an American restaurant with an Afghanistan restaurant. American restaurant is very different from Afghanistan restaurant. There are many different reasons that they are different, such as, the food, tables, silver ware, dishes, table’s manners, and the restaurant building. When I went to the restaurant they brought food for us when I saw the food it was very oily. Afghani food is amazing food because it is very healthy and if people eat as much as they want, but they never get fat. Afghani food is looks like Kebab, different kind of rice, and vegetable soup with meat. In Papa Joe’s I ordered pizza, spaghetti and salad. Then I tasted it I was very hungry when I ate it was very oily that I did not eat all of them. Afghani restaurant the outside of the building it is very beautiful, and fancy, but Papa Joe’s it was kind of older, and not fancy. This is the same as silver ware, dishes, and tables.  

Outside Afghani Restaurant

When I enter the Papa Joe’s I saw a lot of things going on like people order food, and there was music on. The restaurant was kind of old. I saw a lot of things around the restaurant like wine cups, beer, and beautiful flowers.  People were sitting in outside as well as inside. My adviser and I chose a table to sit at the restaurant.  Then the waiter came to us; he asked us, “What do you guys want?” My adviser answered him by, “we need two coca cola.” When American people drink in a restaurant they have one rule that they follow. Then they toast each other with the glasses, but in Afghanistan people never do that. Then he brought the menu that we have to order something from. We ordered cheese pizza, spaghetti, and salad. This is a big different in Afghanistan because in Afghanistan they never have menu to order their food. There isn’t much variety that people can order the food they just telling the waiter to bring any food they want than the waiter bring them food as soon as possible. But in America restaurant we have to wait a long to bring the food ready.  

Outside Papa Joe's

After we ate I saw the girl was working in the restaurant that was very interesting to me. She was taking care of her baby in her baby carrier and working as well. She was wrapping napkins with the fork. Then the boy came to us to ask how the food was. I said it is unhealthy for me. Then he wanted to know why. After the food he brought the check and when I saw the check for me was very interesting, because in Afghanistan they don’t bring paper check. The waiter told us how much we should pay. I think it was cheap the food in Papa Joes, but in Afghanistan is very expensive to eat in restaurant.

Inside Papa Joe's

I want to my audience to go in Afghanistan one day and go to Afghani restaurant. If they eat any food in there I am 95 percent sure they will love the food there. They can eat a lot of different kind of food like lamb kebab, when people eat their food after food they bring for them tea. When people eat their food they never drink alcohol, because in the Muslim religion they cannot drink any. In Afghanistan the drinks are brought the same time as the food not before the food. In America they bring the drinks in the pretty glasses, but in Afghanistan they bring a big jug with the glasses. In Afghanistan they have sinks in the entrance the beginning of the restaurant before they enter to the restaurant they wash their hand. But in United Sates it is different because when I went to the restaurant there wasn’t sinks that I wash my hand. Then I asked them, “Where is the sink that I have to wash my hand?” They answered me by telling me to go to bathroom to wash your hand. I was very grossed out in the restaurant because it seems unclean to wash your hand in the bathroom and then eat!

Afghani Food

The restaurant in Afghanistan is bigger than the restaurant in America that I visited to review about it. It is divided into two sections by a curtain, the men sit in one side and the women sit the other side. When they cook the kebab or other stuff when you enter the restaurant it is smell delicious. But when I enter the restaurant in here it only smells like grease that I will never go to restaurant in America to never eat the greasy food because I don’t like it is unhealthy. The only thing I like the restaurant in America is the tables and the chairs, but in Afghanistan the people have to recline on the couches. I would like to see Afghanistan’s restaurant use tables and chairs like America. I would like this because people can be comfortable to eat, and it would also be good for people who work in the restaurant so that they can show what their restaurant is like since the food are very expensive and it have to be also pretty tables and chairs. The other difference would be in Afghanistan’s restaurant is all people sit inside the restaurant  no matter what, but in American restaurant  people can sit whatever place they want. In Afghanistan restaurant they sit separated like men sit one side, women sit other side, but if the women have men from their family then they can sit together, but not with the men that they don’t know them; they cannot sit with them.  

Inside Afghanistan Restaurant

The other different would be the spoon is very different Afghani restaurant have very small spoon and very colorful and beautiful the fork as well. The other difference would be in America people going to restaurant a lot to eat their food, but in Afghanistan not like that. It is like they go to the restaurant once a month or every few weeks or once a year. The other thing is if they have special events going on than they would definitely go.

Food At Papa Joe's

    I really liked how I compared two restaurants to my audience. I also liked certain amount of things that I learned about American restaurant explain Afghani restaurant to American restaurant. For example some of things that I discovered about American restaurant are the tables and chairs, how they bring the food, drinks, and their attitude. Overall I still liked Afghani restaurants more, because the food is very much healthier than American food. However Afghani restaurant will learn something good from American restaurant. I would like my audience to try some Afghani food in an Afghani restaurant. I would love to hear back from my audience what are their opinion about comparing this two restaurants. Even though the food was unhealthier, but I liked how the restaurant was, and how I observed. I really liked how they orderly, and clean. The people in papa Joe’s were very nice, and kind.  

Work Cited

[Afghanistan Foods]. 2013. Film Annex. JPEG

 [Food At Papa Joe's]. 2013. Papa Joe's, Boise. JPEG file.

[Inside Afghani Restaurant]. 2012. Kabul Afghan Cuisine, Philadelphia. JPEG file. 

[Inside Papa Joe's]. 2013. Papa Joe's, Boise. JPEG file.

[Outside Afghani Restaurant]. 2012. Explor Afghanistan. JPEG file.

[Outside Papa Joe's]. 2013. Papa Joe's, Boise. JPEG file.