It is hardly known to tourists but what about sandwiches where local New Year residents are packed every day?

In the big city of America · New York "deliThere are grocery stores called so. It is an abbreviation for Delicatessen meaning a snack dealer in German, it is a shop that cooks and sells snacks such as sandwiches on the spot along with drinks and household goods, not for New York citizens It is not exist. What sort of thing is that the sandwiches that the New Yorkers love is featured in the following movie.

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Harlem, located in the northern part of New York's Manhattan district,Ethnic Salad BowlIn New York, also known as the area with many African-Americans in particular.


That one corner is "Hajji's Deli (Blue Sky Deli)". The classic menu "Chopped Cheese" here is a popular sandwich from New Yorkers.


The owner, Salah Alhubaishi, has managed this shop for 15 years.


Because Hajji's Deli is open 24 hours, when New Yorker comes, place your favorite order such as "Topping All", "Lettuce, Tomato, Pickles, Ketchup".



When order is received, minced while patting the hamburger patty on the iron plate.


Then put the cheese on the carved meat and bake it and put it on the bread when it becomes rough.


Furthermore, if you put toppings such as lettuce, tomato, onions etc on a sandwich according to customer's taste, it is completed.


Originally Arab dish, but in the real place it is not to eat cheese on it.


"But after I came to the US I started to eat cheese and eat it," Salah says.


Chopped Cheese offers two sizes: Roll (Horizontal) and Hero (Large), with a price of 3 dollars and 75 cents (about 400 yen) for one Roll and 5 dollars (about 540 yen) for each Hero.


New York is a city where people live from rich people to poor people, Salah said that they wanted everyone to eat sandwiches, he said that only one dollar has been raised in the past 10 years. Not only taste but also its cheapness is a point loved by New Yorkers.


There are various deli and sandwiches in New York, everyone in New Yorker finds a destination shop and favorite menu, but there are many people finally returning to Hajji's Deli.


In addition, Salah himself likes Chopped Cheese too much and it seems to eat well, but when eating Chopped Cheese it is said that she will withdraw cheese. The reason was "I want to lose weight".