| There are rice meals and then there is the Chef Creations by 7 Eleven Philippines, which entirely creates a collaboration of flavours for the locals to savour. This is not the first time the country’s popular convenient store has collaborated with well-known restaurants or famous chefs.
But this is part of range of new dishes done by Chef Claude Tayag who’s not only an author and food writer, but also best known for depicting scenes of impressionistic landscapes and scenes of Philippine folk festivals and religious imagery in his art. In recent years, he has written and been involved with Philippine gastronomy. His take on the five Filipino dishes with 7 Eleven is the latest including the Bicol Express! |
The Chef Creations range is a premium line of dishes collaborating with well-known restaurants and restaurateur, and it continue to expand as well be relevant to the ever changing taste of a Filipino. But also caters to a majority that would try something new and different on the same dish that’s being available almost everywhere.
Of course, the price point for the Chef Creations varies from each dish and that is also applies with this range featuring Chef Claude Tayag’s take on the four dishes that also features the popular Bicol Express. Each dish also is packaged differently and not all are unformed based on the3 food portions as well as how it is presented and marketed.
Spiced & Chili
Made in native Bicolano style, the Bikol Express was popularized in the district of Malate, Manila. It is a stew made from long chili pepper or small chili peppers coconut milk/coconut cream shrimp paste or stockfish, onion, pork, ginger and garlic. The dish was given the term by Laguna resident, Cely Kalaw, during a cooking competition in the 1970s in Malate, Manila.
Of course, over the years there have been many variations or slight changes to how a Bicol Express is being prepared or cook. This one is cooked and styled by Chef Claude Tayag with more take on the product’s affordability at the same time a more home grown authentic way presented as a rice meal by 7 Eleven.
Authentic Bicol-style
This is more of a presentation and how it was cooked by a famed restaurateur, which is why it is simplified at the same time, still have that genuine taste of a famed Filipino dish. It is quite an inviting experience that already has been re-interpreted by other several times and yet it is superior from its previous iterations.
Despite not enough food portions to savour the need for a heavy lunch meal it still hits high remarks to not pass it up. It may have been available everywhere, but this is something worth the second round as not enough rice or viand that would be able to fill up your hungry cravings if you’re into these local dishes.
Overall this is just one of the five of the best creations by Chef Claude Tayag, and it looks promising that 7 Eleven continues to reinvent itself by bringing top notch brands and well-known chefs to give their product an identity. It differs them from their other counterparts outside the country and at the same time being 10 steps ahead of the competition despite the food portions and cost this one was really good.
- Food Quality: 4.5 out of 5
- Affordability: A
- Overall: Food Portions is understandable that balance with the price, Quality of food is good.
Bicol Express | Retailed at: ₱ 110.00 Pesos [$ 2.86 AUD | $ 1.88 USD]**
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Some Reference & Description Acknoledgement via Wikipedia
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