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This is a boureka from some place near the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. I don’t remember exactly where, nor do I remember what was inside. I can, however, tell you a little bit about bourekas.
A boureka is a pastry made with either puff pastry or phyllo dough. They can be filled with any number of things; cheese, mushrooms, eggplant, mashed potato, and so on. The shape of the boureka and the kind of seeds it is topped with indicates what’s inside. In Israel, most bourekas are made with margarine-based dough rather than butter-based dough so that they are kosher (this doesn’t apply to the cheese-filled varieties, obviously).
There is also a genre of film called Bourekas film. Our tour guide tried to explain this to us and kept saying “Bourekas movie,” which I kept hearing as “Boureka smoothie.” I found the idea of a pastry smoothie both confusing and gross. You can read about the Bourekas film genre on its Wikipedia page if you are so inclined. I am not going to pretend like I know anything about Israeli film.
