Khara...ooppss Sorry. I don't mean Khara...I just mean Khara

One of my funny incidents in NY. I was just arrived few months ago. Still do not taste the American food. Wa a3adt ada3bes in all the area where I was living for a store or a restaurent that sells food similar to our food; Greek, Iranian, Turkish etc. I wanted basal wa ta2leyya; tabeekh; ghomoos; ai 7aga. Finally I found and indian food store. I got in. I found a lot of food that look so delicious to me. One item was sawabe3 gollash. Allah, but there was as small sign posted over the dish called" Khara". Allah ye2refko ya bo3ada. Ma32oola? Gollash ma7shi khara? I asked the young indian girl behind the facade
Me: Excuse me, what is this?
The girl: This is khara"
Me: I know it is written there. I mean what is it made of?
The girl" This is a phyllo dough stuffed with chicken, onion and vegetables
Me: Allah, yummy. Lamma agarrab akol khara. Please give me one
The girl took one with a fork and was going to put it in the oven to heat it
Me: Is it hot?
The girl: No it is not yet
Me: then I want it like this
The girl handled the piece of Khara to me in a nice plate with some pickles. I sat down atghazzel fel Khara, I mean el gollasha before I eat it saying to myself" allah 3ala el Khara...mmmm" Then once I took one bite I found my head hitting the ceiling and the hell fire in my mouth. Ga7eem, wel3a. Ro7t be 3afweyya tafet.ha and went to scream at the girl with my eyes tearing from the shatta
Me: I told you I dont want the Khara hot Miss
The girl: It is not hot Sir. It didn't even touch the oven as you saw
Me: I mean Hot...Hot...Hot... pointing to her at my tongue
The girl smiling: Sir, I guess you meant " spicy". Well everybody who is used to indian food knows that the Khara is very spicy.
Me: How should I know, howwana kont kalt Khara abl keda
and I left the store wa bo22ee melahleb and still hungery. Wa de kant awwel wa akher marra akol Khara.
By the way, they cook it in many ways ( sawabe3, mothalathat, fetayer)and you can see pictures of it on the web. I didn't post a picture of it for the suspense