in my head, i m german. i m glad that my parents wanted to have a good education for me. but still at home, they were turkish, like turkish traditions and turkish thinking, so i was always on both sides. and now, i m adult enough to pick the best ones from both sides. anthony: growing up here as the child of turkish immigrants, how did you feel in school? you felt german? melek: yeah. yeah. anthony: so, why do you think germany s good at that? melek: the germans are very correct people. they want to have everything on the point. they don t like surprises. so they organize everything before. anthony: i mean, it s almost a cliché that it s organized. melek: it s not a cliché, it s organized. anthony: grilled minced lamb basted with hot tomato sauce and slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt. roast lamb with feta, bulgur, and roasted vegetables. ah, that s beautiful. melek: danke schön.
want something good? we mean really good when in amritsar? something local, regional, iconically wonderful? you can t say you ve had the amritsar experience until you ve had a little kulcha in your life. kulcha, this is the iconic dish of punjab. yes, that s this here. kulcha, a perfect little flavor bomb of wheat dough pressed against the side of a very, very hot clay oven, slathered with butter and served with a spicy choli, a chickpea curry on the side. did i mention the butter? how is it? mm-mm. nice? delicious.
and those who found their families were rejected because they said you guys abandoned us for five years. you might as well take that five acres of land and stay there. so there is no closure to decedents like us, who have not found any connection between our families in india. anthony: soft paratha dough cooked on a massive tawah and slathered in gee. but here, just as it s reaching peak flakiness, it gets a beatin . keshav: here they call it buss up shut which means burst out of shirt. anthony: burst up shirt. man in white shirt: yeah because they take two huge parotta and then they whack it with two sticks. anthony: oh, okay. i thought you were talking about what s going to happen to my shirt. what about skin color? you look at jamaica, you look at haiti. i don t get what they say, but what they do is still a powerful determinant of where your status is in the power structure. does that exist here?
up and move his place a bit out of town. his customers came with him. hey, juma, how are you? so what are we having? beef on a stick, chicken on a stick. half chicken and all the spices and sauces. i ll order beef for now. beef, good, let s have chicken. chicken? yeah, sure. [ speaking a foreign language ] juma is famous for his chicken. the bird is slathered with a mixture of garlic, lime, coriander, ginger, salt and pepper, then grilled and served whole pieces with tamarin chili sauce. they spend all night preparing and cutting, then they come here at 6:30 and finish about 10:00. how many guys work in here? there s about six, seven of them. six or seven of them? all around the table. wow, this is a big operation. okay. he s finishing the skewers.
you might as well take that five acres of land and stay there. so there is no closure to decedents like us, who have not found any connection between our families in india. anthony: soft paratha dough cooked on a massive tawah and slathered in gee. but here, just as it s reaching peak flakiness, it gets a beatin . keshav: here they call it buss up shut which means burst out of shirt. anthony: burst up shirt. man in white shirt: yeah because they take two huge parotta and then they whack it with two sticks. anthony: oh, okay. i thought you were talking about what s going to happen to my shirt. what about skin color? you look at jamaica, you look at haiti. i don t get what they say, but what they do is still a werful determinant of where your status is in the power structure. does that exist here? man in blue shirt: it s not something that has consumed our imagination.