A truly good authentic chicken shawarma holds very strict criteria and high standards. This is due in part to the dish being so popular that even the smallest variation of ingredients can make this dish not as good compared to others. The best way to prepare a chicken Shawarma is to make sure all of the meats have been prepared correctly; including having been tenderize and roasted for at least one day. This piece of criteria allows for the chicken shawarma to truly obtain all of its delicious flavors because the meats will become perfected and will also have time to roast and mature.
The chicken Sharma for which I sampled at the Phoenician restaurant did indeed be this criteria because the meat was very tender, especially the chicken dish for which I ordered. The chicken had been roasted for one and a half days. I found this out because I asked the owner to fill me in on the recipe and how the food item was prepared and for how long. I discovered that the chicken Shawarma also met the criteria of being high quality because the meats were slowly roasted with special hand-picked house blended sauce; allowing for all of the meats to caramelize and obtain juiciness while they became tender.