| 7 Eleven’s range of “Chef Creations” is a mix bag of experiments and collaborations between the convenient store and established culinary experts, as wells as renowned restaurants from the Philippines. They’ve created these diverse menu considered some of the premium products ever produced exclusively sold for a convenient store.
It’s kind of unheard of but that’s how you keep things relevant not just being a convenient store. 7 Eleven manage to expand their horizon on what to have in a store that is known for their Slurpee and Gulps to make a range of localized cuisine that not only served for those who can afford. But partnering up to put together some more choices for you to try it, and this time with Lugang Café’s Sweet & Sour Chicken! |
Lugang Café served some interesting list of Taiwanese inspired cuisine, and it’s no surprise in their take of the Sweet & Sour Chicken, which is considered as one of their signature meals on their plate. They’re a quite a premium restaurant that originated from China that opened select restaurants in the Philippines.
They try their hand to collaborate with 7 Eleven in bringing their Taiwanese style cuisine to the masses under the Chef Creations banner. It is unnoticed for some who would have their lunch to look at the cardboard slip cover regarding the details and just proceed to take it all in regarding the details, which is understandable when you just want to have a decent meal on a busy week.
Premium Convenient Meals
The Sweet & Sour Chicken is packaged in a black microwaveable bowl with cover, and details of the product is in the cardboard slip cover including nutrition, ingredients, and directions on how many seconds it needs to be cooked on a microwave over, but does not explain or have directions once you prepare it.
When you remove the cardboard slip cover and the plastic microwaveable see through cover shows a tiny ketchup tub on top of the rice. It is the sweet & sour sauce that is described on the product details, but does not have the exact directions if it need to be poured all over the chicken strips that’s already mixed up with the white rice.
Just a Chicken with Style
After you put in the sweet & sour sauce all over the chicken strips, and then you put it into the microwave for 70 seconds of 1 minute and 10 seconds to have it cooked. The sauce is absorbed by the chicken strips that also includes the rice. It doesn’t match with the product image to the actual meal.
Some might not even mix up the sweet & sour sauce and use it to dip with the chicken instead, which is all the more the need for directions for those who want to try this meal. It’s like Figure-it-out kind of meal when you prepare it that looks a bit confusing for some who would expect when they put it in the microwave it would come out as the same product from the pictures.
Overall it doesn’t make sense for how it is prepared without the directions on pouring the sauce to the chicken, and some might think it is a dip. The taste doesn’t have that sweet & sour experience. It’s a chicken meal that looks like having a dip than the actual product in the images.
The price doesn’t give you the “elegance and style” of Lugang Café, and it is understandable why it ended up like a budget version of a premium restaurant since you’re trying to appease the masses with the lower price point to be more affordable. But would it be helpful if there’s a direction to prepare the meal because it did not end up as most would expect it.
- Food Quality: 3 out of 5
- Affordability: C+
- Overall: Pricey for a small bowl that doesn't taste like Sweet & Sour.
Sweet & Sour Chicken | Retailed at: ₱ 125.00 Pesos [$ 3.31 AUD | $ 2.26 USD]**
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