| Kare-Kare is a very challenging dish to prepare because it is a stew with thick and savory peanut sauce, which it’s based stewed oxtail, beef tripe, pork hocks, calves feet, pig's feet or trotters, various cuts of pork, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal. The process alone takes a lot of patience and steady hand in getting it right.
But you never heard of it being a frozen meal sold at 7 Eleven, and yet they did collaborating with Manam Express bringing this dish as one of their two Filipino food that you can take it home and just heat it with a microwave. The other dish is Sisig, though a Kare- Kare seemed to be that kind food you do not want to mess with. |
Just like the previous collaboration with Manam Express, it is packaged with that familiar colour the same presentation that brought you the Sisig dish. The Chef Creations expands having more to choose from than the usual Big Time Meals.
Pretty much you’ll see the way it was vacuumed sealed, and all you need to do is heat it up in the microwave oven, and it is instructed how many minutes it may need to be heated. But this will depend on your oven as most have higher voltage that the settings in how many minutes is different from the one 7 Eleven stores have.
Not as What You Expected
For a frozen meal it is understandable why it is not savory enough with the peanut sauce as it appears to be a bit dry in that part. But pre-heated ones are frozen until you see it after it gets bombarded with microwave heat. But it is not the Kare-Kare you’re hoping for and the way it was made has its own limits.
Besides that, the cost and portion is also considered because Kare-Kare is not cheap when you order it in a restaurant. It is considered a premium meal when you have it, but as a frozen meal from a convenient store it’s not what you think to be exactly how it was made as most home cooked Kare-Kare is oozing with thick peanut sauce.
Flavourful Filipino Dish
It may lack the sauce, but what makes it popular is the meat in the meal. It is still Kare-Kare in budget form and that’s okay. You can still have this meal and certainly make your day as the rice came with it is not just the one you see in white they sprinkle some flavor in it.
This may not be the sauciest Kare-Kare, but what’s important is the meat that was stewed together with the peanut sauce. It just needs a kick and prior to being heated up you might see shrimp paste on top that has been added.
Overall it is not that Kare-Kare you know, but it is an economically good frozen meal that still stands out among the ones sold at 7 Eleven stores. There might be something lacking in appearance, but the same way you in a Kare-Kare is still there minust the oozing thick and savory peanut sauce.
- Food Quality: 3.5 out of 5
- Affordability: B+
- Overall: The Savory thick Peanut Sauce is a bit dry
Kare-Kare | Retailed at: ₱ 95.00 Pesos [$ 2.45 AUD | $ 1.81 USD]**
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