Hibachi House Chicken Fried Rice

November 8, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Hibachi House Chicken Fried Rice SRP: $5.00
Serving: 1 Cup, 4.9oz.
Servings Per Package: 4.5
Calories: 220
Fat: 3%, 2g
Cholesterol: 4%, 15mg
Sodium: 35%, 800mg
Protein: 16g
Carbs: 12%, 33g
Fiber: 6%, 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 4*

Hibachi House says: Tender pieces of chicken breast meat are fire grilled to juicy perfection and paired with our traditional gourmet fried rice blend and garlic sesame sauce.

Abi says: When the Hibachi House Chicken Fried Rice emerged from the microwave (still in its plastic pouch) it was perhaps the most perfect chicken fried rice I ever could have imagined. Truly, it looked (and smelled) more fantastic than any chicken fried rice I’ve ever made from scratch at home. The eggs were fluffy (I guess that’s what happens when you steam them) and the chicken chunks were enormous and gloriously moist (another yay for steaming) and the rice emerged from the steam bag in individual grains without an iota of stickiness.

Have I mentioned how much I adore this steaming technology? And technology might be to strong of a word for it. Really, we finally figured out that if you put rice in a plastic bag and toss it in the microwave you can make some pretty darn good rice.

The aroma of the pre-sauced Hibachi House chicken fried rice was truly captivating, enamoring me and a male coworker standing in the kitchen, waiting to use the microwave. Sadly, every moment of perfection seems to have a downside. Mine occured during sauce application.

My lunch went from fried rice perfection to overly garlicky nightmare. Okay, not nightmare (I happily at this for lunch for two days straight, and I am not a leftovers girl*), but general disappointment. Sure, the chicken was still deliciously moist and smoky (is it really grilled? I do not know), but the meal suddenly felt like a mistake. Like I’d ordered one thing for Chinese takeout, but the driver brought something else and I was just too darn hungry to say ‘No, this isn’t what I ordered.’

I should have refrained from the garlic sesame sauce and used a light-handed seasoning of soy sauce to enhance the almost-perfect fried rice. Please, heed this warning and taste a bit of the sauce before you decide to add the packet to your meal.

[This meal was free from Hibachi House, which is good because it is more expensive than most of the things that we review on HeatEatReview.com. Then again, it is easily two hearty servings of muy delicioso chicken and rice.]

*The entire package contains food worth approximately 18 Weight Watchers Points. It is also easily two enormous, filling lunches. If you added some vegetables or ate an apple with lunch, this meal would fill you up every afternoon for three days straight.

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3 Responses to “Hibachi House Chicken Fried Rice”

Rose on November 9th, 2007

They sell Hibachi House meals at our local “Dollar General Market” which..is like a dollar store with frozen food, meat, and produce. but I haven’t picked any up for fear of awful frozen japanese wannabe food. I may now try them.
Crow on November 9th, 2007

That’s a neat vaguely 80s retro bowl.
Abi Jones on November 9th, 2007

That would be a piece of unlidded generic Tupperware. My office has a perpetual oversupply of Tupperware imposters. This results in a once-monthly email begging people to taking home the containers and threatening that all containers left after a certain date will be thrown away.

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