| Home cooked food has been redefined in more ways than once, and there’s nothing like being comforted about it. Let alone if it becomes an instant meal for you to just heat it up in a microwave. There have been several of these sold in convenient stores, and it has become quite the norm without the need to cook.
With 7 Eleven, they’ve become known for their localized instant meals that it has become their most popular product when it’s all about Filipino dishes and convenient food, and they popularized their Big Time Meals that out competing other fast food restaurants due to affordability like their Pork Barbecue. |
Big Time Meals is one of their premium take away product that either you can have it at the store itself and let them heat it through their microwave or take it home. There have been two that’s been common in the menu. It is the popular Pork Barbecue and the Baked Chicken. But when you talked about which of the two the above mentioned Pork Barbecue is quite the sold out product.
Sometimes what the product sells is in the image, and how it was presented and it really moves the shelf just like the Pork Barbecue is seen and beside that is the description of the product and other details on top of the cover. It’s more unique because what you see in the image is the actual product.
Barbie on a Stick
If you dine it at the 7 Eleven store, the staff will partially open the product and shove it in their microwave as instructed in the product it just needs a minute or 60 seconds to heat it. But this depends also if your microwave is high voltage to really cook it in a minute. For this if it was cooked at home you put for 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
Of course, removing the top cover the product reveals an un-heat meal, and that is two skewered pork barbecue and the orangey fried rice. The Java sauce was obviously not what you expected, they have scrimped and save the amount not filling enough as a dip for the Pork Barbecue.
Fried Rice Folly
The same goes to the fried rice included was not enough, but it’s understandable how they need to keep it under the price. But it is not lacking when it comes to how they portion the rice. It is manageable to appreciate the way it was served unlike the aforementioned Java Sauce.
You’ll never see a fried rice being part of an instant meal, and only a fast food resto like Mang Inasal have served the same rice with their own Pork Barbecue for a little bit more cost. Unlike the instant meal it has this homey element that’s not like you can just dine it at the store itself. It was designed for you to have it at the comfort of your home than just eat it on the run.
Overall the evolution of a ‘TV dinner’ continues to improve and keep its ‘freshness’ and you don’t find it sold in a supermarket. Unless Shopwise starts bringing the ones sold by Woolworth’s and you may have more instant cooking to choose from. For now, this one earns enough points that define as the product to be a Big Time Meal.
- Food Quality: 3.5 out of 5
- Affordability: B+
- Overall: Needs more Java Sauce
Pork Barbecue | Retailed at: ₱ 105.00 Pesos [$ 2.74 AUD | $ 2.01 USD]**
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