Papa Hassan's Has a Brand-New Bag

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • September 19, 2013
Do you remember your first shawerma? I do. It was 15, maybe 20 years ago. As with a hazy memory of a movie in which I can recall the actors but not the plot, I only remembered where I had it: Papa Hassan's in Orange, the place where so many Orange...
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