Hello again. It’s been a while.

What has been going on during Shawarma Police’s brief soujourn into semi-retirement? Oh, there are tales. Long, DARK, tales. I subscribed to Disney+, that’s quite good, you can get Duck Tales on that – both the classic ones and the gritty reboot. What else? I managed to root an old android phone and install a different version of android on it, just to catch up on the big craze of 2010, fifteen years too late. I walked past my gym the other day, would have gone in but I’d forgotten my PE kit. I did karaoke a few times – Atmosphere by Russ Abbot is my number of choice – do say hello if you see me performing at your local arts centre or community hall.

I’ve also been eating kebabs.

This – I don’t think, is a kebab? What say you?

Here’s the menu at Lebanese In A Van, one of the food vans to have quietly and mysteriously appeared on Broomielaw on the north bank of the Clyde. I went for the spicy kafta wrap with no illusions – what you get is literally advertised with arrows and labelling – and I was getting lamb mince, BBQ sauce, salad and sauce in a Lebanese bread for eight pounds. Ok, so it’s more lamahcun than kebab, worth giving it a go?

It was great, as it turns out. The Lebanese flatbread was sandwich grilled down, with an oily covering, to make it more like a thin pastry, and the spicy lamb mince, salad and sauce made the layers, with the chunky pickles ending up in the middle. This was nice but it confused my head – whereas the meat normally has bite to it, this lamb paste had none. It was inhaled! The pickled veg in the middle though, very crunchy. I’ve never called a kebab crunchy before. Spicy? Very much so. Would recommend if you’re afflicted with the changing-of-the-seasons cold doing the rounds at the moment.

Lebanese In A Van. Well worth a visit, it is located at the southern end of the Tradeston footbridge (aka the Barclays to BT Pedestrio-9000) and is but one of a handful of vans that mysteriously appeared without warning (well, I didn’t know, let’s call it that) this week.

Also worth pointing out that these vans are near, but not a part of, the Clydeside Containers project.

Lebanese In A Van

Broomielaw, Glasgow

Spicy Kafta Wrap, £8

8/10