Ethnic Gourmet Peanut Satay Chicken

April 3, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Price: $3.49 at Whole Foods
Size: 11 oz.
Calories: 410
Fat: 12 grams
Sodium: Don’t know

Tagline: Boneless chicken breast coated with Peanut Satay Sauce. Served with Fried Rice.

Abi says: Ethnic Gourmet does deliver a mildly spiced, slightly chewy, moderate amount of chicken. The chicken pieces were small and each had a tiny piece of attached fat. Ick. When I purchase a frozen meal, I don’t want to think about that meal having come from any sort of animal. That’s why I like my chicken doused in peanut sauce. Peanut sauce = Did not come from an animal.

But even after the fat-in-every-bite-experience, what really killed me about Ethnic Gourmet was not the chicken, but the rice.

There’s a place called China Town on Mt. Pleasant St. in DC. China Town makes a superb fried rice. A fried rice that you know was fried. A fried rice fragrant with unidentifiable meats, bits of egg, scallions, and orange things that I think are carrots. A fried rice that could qualify as “otherworldly”. Now, I used to live in Texas. This means that when a food is labelled as “Fried” it better darn well have spent some set of minutes simmering on a skillet, if not a half-hour in a vat of oil.

Ethnic Gourmet doesn’t seem to understand the word ‘fried’. This rice was limp, mushy, and flavorless. This rice was perhaps related to the opposum in the way that it rolled over and played dead. Even after a dousing in the peanut sauce, I just couldn’t force this stuff down. When a person gags while eating your product there may be a problem. Also, the little corn things came in the chicken section of the meal. Those are vegetables and should have been on the rice side of the container.

Improvements: Supply eaters with the chicken in peanut sauce (bland/mild) and a heap of fluffy jasmine or basmati. Mmmm, basmati.

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2 Responses to “Ethnic Gourmet Peanut Satay Chicken”

Ed on February 7th, 2008

This meal sucked! Tiny quantity (one piece of chicken!!) and the last two minutes in the microwave without the film trashed the inside of the oven with sauce splatter. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
Olive on May 30th, 2008

end is the crown of any work,

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