| Afritada is consisting of chicken, beef, or pork braised in tomato sauce with carrots, potatoes, and red and green bell peppers. Basically a common everyday food in the Philippines that is easily affordable. But this one with 7 Eleven is entirely had chicken in the dish, and also a favourite budget meal to have if you’re on the go.
Hotta Rice meals from 7 Eleven are affordable that it’s not much compared to the previous meals that have been presented in grand scale or premium that collaborates with well-known restaurants in the country. There have been several dishes that is offered in this price point, but some have been retired, and this one of their latest. |
The Chicken Curry and the Afritada were introduced this year replacing previous Hotta Rice Meals either retired due to lack of raw material or still keeping the product on the budget meal that people can afford without paying so much. Plus, you’ll notice the new aesthetics of the packaging in orange with random artsy design.
Gone is the plain white paper cup container that says the product “Hotta Rice” becoming a generic thing that has been updated, and also retaining the five dishes under the brand. Besides the two above mentioned they still have the Pork Siomai, Pork Steak, Pork Liempo, and Lechon Paksiw to choose from.
Not Saucy Enough
You can never say ‘no’ to a chicken meal when it is Afritada as it has vegetable mixed with tomato sauce and green bell peppers. Though their take on the home cooked style Chicken Afritada is not saucy enough to really have that experience, which if you’re mum or grandma makes one for you.
But despite the lack of sauce it still makes sense since when you open this up it is contained in a plastic container from the white rice that you need to put on top of it prior to heating it up with a microwave. It appears like a gelo frozen with the elements of and parts of the meal and when it gets cooked it appears immediately dry.
Beefy Chicken Goodness
Having a home cooked Afritada is different from this version of 7 Eleven’s Hotta Rice has to offer. It is still good with a bulk of chicken meat makes up for the lack of sauce and veggies. You’ll understand why they still need to reduce the portions to fit into the budget that is allowed for this product.
You cooked it in a microwave together with the rice and not separately, which is done differently if you have the 7 Eleven staff heat it up for you. It is better cooked together to have that tasty goodness of home cooking otherwise you’ll be having cooked plastic in your meal as most Hotta Rice meals are contained separately in their containers with the exception with Pork Siomai and Pork Liempo.
Overall good meal of the right budget meal price. The sauce may dry or not thick enough, but still mix it with the rice would certainly make it up to remind you how a home cooked meal used to be. It is a common Filipino lunch meal good for on the go, which is also way gone on 7 Eleven’s freezer shelf most of the time.
- Food Quality: 4 out of 5
- Affordability: A
- Overall: Lack of sauce, not thick enough
Afritada | Retailed at: ₱ 85.00 Pesos [$ 2.47 AUD | $ 1.60 USD]** As of 12 June 2022***
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*** - UPDATED AS OF 12 JUNE 2022
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