falafel

So there's a great eatery down the way that serves among certain things falafel . It's a little kiosk near the oedo line roppongi exit near the currently under construction Tokyo mid town project. The owner of the establishment is Turkish (how he's in operation as far as visa, etc. goes, I can only imagine) and the interior is your staple euro trash with hard house music playing and posters of to these american eyes, cool european movies. Lately, however his son has taken over for some reason. And when he took my order he asked me in English etc. Then he chats away in Japanese to his Japanese customers. Then switches to Turkish to chat with one of his turkish speaking buddies hanging out in the kiosk cum resturant. I thought about making falafel recently . After looking at the recipe, though, it seems that canned garbanzo beans are a big no-no. Since I had already bought a can of garbanzo beans, I was stuck. I decided to strike up a conversation with this seeming trilinguist in English first. Blank stare after I asked him about where he buys his ingredients. I try again in Japanese, this time with some success. He said he gets all of his ingredients from Turkey. Now I find that hard to believe (First of all they're using cabbage instead of lettuce and why would you import onions from Tukey?) I think he meant the gyros meat. Anybody know where I can find dried garbanzo beans in Tokyo that has subway access? No non-23-ward-car-access-only mega shopping centers please. My Int'l drivers license expired in May. Anyway, the interesting thing to me was, this kiosk worker seemed to have so much going for him language-wise.