{"id":3120,"date":"2022-03-10T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:28:49","slug":"street-food-wednesday-event-begins-with-tacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/street-food-wednesday-event-begins-with-tacos\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Food Wednesday events begin with tacos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Malika Kaloo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A promotional poster for the March 16 version of Street Food Wednesday (AUS STUDENT RESIDENTIAL LIFE\/INSTAGRAM)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Street food came to the American University of Sharjah\u2019s campus Wednesday with students buying tacos provided as part of a new weekly program hosted by the Student Residential Life Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first of several planned \u201cStreet Food Wednesday\u201d events, scheduled to continue March 16, saw the first 20 residential students who bought tacos receive free AUS t-shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The taco stall was set up in the gazebo area opposite the minimart near the women\u2019s residential halls at around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chef Suresh Selvaraj said he ran out of tacos by 7:45 p.m., and estimated he served about 200 customers. \u201cThe event was successful because of their support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hauwa\u2019u Maikanati Baru, a student who bought tacos on Wednesday, said, \u201cThere was a little delay in buying the tacos, but it was worth the wait.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added that the residential assistant of her dorm had notified the residents about the taco stall. She also saw a poster in the dorm about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Instagram page of residential halls, all dorm residents who attended the event also received SFW loyalty cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Malika Kaloo UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Street food came to the American University of Sharjah\u2019s campus Wednesday with students buying tacos provided as part of a new weekly program hosted by the Student Residential Life Department. The first of several planned \u201cStreet Food Wednesday\u201d events, scheduled to continue March 16, saw the first 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-3120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}