00:00It's so soft. Could be brisk here. Ooh, but it's got good spice.
00:03That is most definitely health.
00:04So welcome back to Monday Munchies. We're here at MLK Deli in Surrey Hills.
00:08We've had a lot of great sandwiches in Sydney, South Darling.
00:12I've even had Hugo's in Melbourne, but this is new.
00:16I'm a sandwich hunter. I found this spot on Google Maps. It's brand new.
00:20I don't think I've seen any videos on it yet, but I want to show you guys.
00:23So it's kind of in like a little bit of a quieter street in Surrey Hills.
00:26It's like still on Main Road, but it's not on Crown Street.
00:28It's a little like homely vibe, really good gourmet sandwiches, which is why we're here.
00:32We found the M in MLK, Myra, our owner, to come talk about the venue and talk about this sandwich
00:38because I want to eat it, but we've got to hear about the venue first.
00:41When did we open? MLK opened just shy of four months ago.
00:45We opened Easter long weekend, which was a pretty ballsy time to open, but we're all here for the risk.
00:50The reason we opened was just to do really good yummy sandwiches with a little bit of an ethnic twist.
00:56Myself being half Afghan, half Uzbek, I thought it would be fun to play on those flavors,
01:00bring something new to the palate because I felt like maybe those flavors hadn't been as explored in Surrey Hills.
01:06I also live here and I've lived here for a long time, so I really wanted the community to be
01:10here
01:10and it to be built around Surrey Hills as well.
01:13I don't know. What else can I tell you?
01:14We are looking at, this is the sandwich that my mom thought I was too crazy to put on the
01:20menu.
01:20This is the chicken that I had growing up.
01:22It is MJ's chicken, MJ being my mom.
01:24She's a saucy, messy sandwich and I let everyone know that.
01:27I'm going to wait for you to try it and then you tell me the rest.
01:30I've never had a Uzbek sandwich before.
01:32I'm going in.
01:34I can't tell you too much about the spices, but all I can tell you is that there is a
01:38tropical fruit in there in the sauce.
01:42Okay.
01:42I'm just trying to pick what the secret is, but I've got to shout out to this bread because,
01:48also can we shout out to the chicken?
01:49Because it's not like, look at it.
01:51It's so soft.
01:52It could be brisket.
01:54You tell me this is brisket.
01:54Ooh, there's got a good spot.
01:59As someone who's never had an Uzbek sandwich before, I'm impressed, but also inquisitive.
02:05I want to know what I'm having.
02:07You are having chicken that has been slow cooked.
02:10There has been a really, really vegetable packed spice that has been simmered down and mixed in with the chicken
02:17while it's been slow cooked.
02:18So a lot of the flavor actually comes from there.
02:20And that's a very Uzbek style way of cooking.
02:23Uzbek cooking is heavy on the proteins.
02:24We like our meat.
02:26But having said that, we implement the vegetables into the sauces and into the base of the flavors.
02:31So this is the MJ's Chicken Sandwich at MLK Deli in Surrey Hills.
02:36This has been another Monday Munchies.
02:37Where should we go next?
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