If you are in Zurich city, I will say, please visit the HB weekly market. There is a lebanese lady who sells homemade food, including some varieties of sweets. Thursdays and Fridays, they are at the same level as interdiscount.
I don't eat sweets, but her other stuff are just amazing. The sweets look good too. I am hooked on the kibbeh and the weinblätter she clearly handmakes. Today, I visited her for lunch and ate a platter of rice and kebabs and picked up kibbehs to share with colleagues.
How are the prices of this Lebanese stall? I only bought once few pastries at the Italian stall there and the prices were even higher than sprüngli 3 little pastries for almost 20 sfr.
The Italians are exhorbitant by any standard. To buy from them, you need to be able to walk away. I only sometimes get cheese from them because they have stuff no one else sells. But I had to ask my husband not to go there. They see a white man, they get inflexible with the amounts. They see me, brown immigrant woman, possibly with not much money, they sell me exactly whatever little I want, or I won't buy. They once sold hubby a block of permigiano for CHF 200 with the excuse that they cant cut it smaller.
No, the lebanese lady is fine pricewise. The beef kibbeh (which I think is lamb) is CHF4/piece. Each weinblatter filled with rice and tomato paste is CHF 1. Given that these are all fresh made and by hand, this is cheap. So is the tibetan shop. a plate of beef/chicken momo for CHF 12 is absolutely reasonable. Each piece is hand made fresh.
I had no idea that the prices were negotiable Of course they told me such high prices, I looked like the most enthusiastic and happiest person after having seen those delicacies.
The prices are so cheap!! I'll definitely stop by and see what she has to offer
No, I dont negotiate. But it goes like this. Here is my CHF 40. Within that, I want a burrata and a slice of the whiskey cheese (or whatever I want that day). And no I am not buying the 2 burrata to get one free. Also, if you say that you cant cut the whiskey cheese small enough to fit in my budget, I will take the burrata and walk. No, I will not pay 60. Faced with this, the italian charm offensive does not work.