A king walked into a strip mall on Sherman Street this summer, and the people working the counter at Khashoka still talk about it like it happened yesterday.
King Abdullah II of Jordan and Crown Prince Hussein stopped in before the Jordanian national team’s first-ever World Cup appearance, part of a swing through North Texas that put Amman’s food culture directly in front of Richardson strip-mall traffic. The restaurant’s own account of the visit calls it an honor to welcome the players who made history, and owner Mohammad Albakri has said the moment still catches him off guard when he thinks about it.
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