Newtown's first kebab shop is celebrating 30 years of serving mouth-watering Turkish dishes to hungry customers in Mid Wales.
The Öngün brothers first brought doner kebabs to the town in late 1993 when they opened Newtown Kebab House in Shrotbridge Street.
"It was the first kebab shop in town and customers loved it," Ramazan said. "Perhaps because it was different food. People came from Llanidloes, Machynlleth and a lot of places because we also sold burgers as well as kebabs because McDonald's was not around at the time."
Ramazan, whose family have also run Welshpool Kebab House for 18 years, moved from the Manchester area to Newtown for a slower pace of life.
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"It was a rough area, so I thought I'd move to Wales," he said.
"It's nice and quiet. I like small places; I was brought up in small places. Rochdale was too big, too many people. I thought Welsh people were friendly and it was a small place. I quite like it. We settled here and my kids went to school here. It is my hometown now."
Ramazan said that over time he has enjoyed seeing new food businesses in the town open offering more choice to hungry Newtonians.
"It's been good and busy because there weren't many food places of this type here at the time. Our loyal, regular customers are nice people.
"It’s a lovely change with lots of food places. The business is good. I think our recipes are the same, it hasn’t changed. Recipes are the main thing here. Since we started the recipes are the same, same service, and people see the food being prepared and cooked in front of the customers.
"Our popular chicken kebab is famous. Different people, different taste. Some people since we started have the same kebab all of the time.
"Of course, thank you to all of our customers for supporting us all this time."
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