What Is Cream Chop?

Cream Chop is one of the house specialties at Shawarma House in Ocean Beach — chopped chicken folded into a creamy garlic sauce. If you’ve scanned our menu and wondered what to order, this is the dish regulars keep coming back for.

What Cream Chop tastes like

It starts with our chicken — halal-sourced, slow-roasted on a vertical spit, and hand-shaved to order. For Cream Chop, that chicken is chopped and tossed in a creamy garlic sauce so every bite carries that rich, garlicky coating. The garlic in our kitchen runs deep — our toum (garlic paste) is made in-house daily, alongside our tahini and hot sauce — so the flavor is fresh, bold, and built from scratch.

It’s comforting and craveable: tender chicken, a creamy garlic finish, and the kind of dish you order once and then order again.

How to order Cream Chop

Cream Chop comes three ways, so you can match it to your appetite:

• Cream Chop Plate — the full plate version, one of our signature plates.
• Cream Chop Pita Wrap — the same chopped chicken and creamy garlic sauce, wrapped up to go.
• Cream Chop Fries — Cream Chop served over fries, for the loaded, shareable version.

Vegan Cream Chop

Plant-based? We make a Vegan Cream Chop as part of our full vegan menu, which also includes falafel, vegan shawarma, hummus, tabouli, fattoush, and house-made vegan sauces — so a vegan guest can order the Cream Chop experience too, not just a side.

Allergens — please read before you order

• Cream Chop contains dairy. The creamy garlic sauce is dairy-based.
• Cream Chop is not gluten-free. It is not on our gluten-free-friendly list — please don’t order it if you’re avoiding gluten.
• About our kitchen: we’re gluten-free-friendly, not a certified gluten-free facility. We share a kitchen, so for guests avoiding gluten we build plates over rice with no pita — but Cream Chop specifically is not one of those options.

Order Cream Chop if…

• You love garlic and creamy, rich flavors.
• You want a chicken dish that’s a little different from a standard shawarma plate.
• You’re grabbing the Pita Wrap for an easy handheld meal, or the Fries to share.
• You’re plant-based and want the Vegan Cream Chop version.

Skip it if you’re avoiding gluten or dairy — see the allergen notes above, and ask us about a rice-based plate instead.

If you like Cream Chop, try these

• Combo Plate — beef shawarma, chicken shawarma, and gyro on one plate. A popular way to taste the menu.
• Chicken Shawarma Plate — the slow-roasted, hand-shaved chicken on its own.
• Beef Shawarma Plate — the same spit-roasted technique, with our halal beef.