We had dinner a little while ago and ugh, it was disgusting.
You know you can buy frozen chinese food in the grocery store? Frozen chicken balls, frozen veggie spring rolls? Yeah … well don’t. Bleh!
As I said in my last post I’ve been really busy working on my main website over the last two or three days and at the same time I’ve also been really hungry – like acidy stomach hungry. So Chris decided to whip up a quick dinner for us while I finished up the last little things I had to do on the website. He made rice and that was fine, but the chicken balls and spring rolls that he pulled out of our freezer and then cooked up were just plain yucky.
The next time I get a craving for Chinese food … I’ll pull out my passport and go to China. Nah … we’ll go downtown to Toronto’s Chinatown. There’s some very tasty Asian food there. Yum. I definitely won’t be buying frozen Chinese food again! Not that brand anyway.
Have you ever purchased pre-made frozen food or packaged food and thought it was going to be delicious but ended up being seriously disappointed?
I’ve also noticed that even Chinese takeout doesn’t have the appeal it once did. We were spoiled living a 15-minute brisk walk from Chinatown, where we were able to eat in places where everyone held their bowls up to their chests as they ate and where there were two superb Chinese bakeries almost side by side on Dundas Street (we lamented on a visit to Toronto last summer that one has closed down).
The major Chinese buffets still offer something. In Ottawa we like Du Barry and Royal Buffet. In Cornwall, it’s Wing Hing. In Toronto, it was Mandarin (Eglinton and Yonge).
Oh my gosh, yes! But seriously, what I just thought about is that we bought chocolate bars and were just discussing that we needed to change out the baking powder in the frig. Well, we didn’t… then, when we were ready to eat the bars, and they tasted like fish. Fish! Frozen fish! What can be worse than frozen chocolate fish bars??
Had the frozen Chinese food that you were talking about, once in my life as well. Worst experience ever!!!
Don’t think I had Chinese food for a few months after that. I may occasionally order out, but most of the time I rather make it myself.
But frozen, never again.
Frozen can be pretty bleh, but you don’t have to go to China for Chinese either!! Chinese cooking is actually very easy even to cook from scratch. I have lots of simple yet yummy Chinese recipes on my blog you can try 🙂
some frozen stuff is terrible – it is a hit and miss even in the same brands.