NOTHING Luxury About This Chinese Banquet For One

I hope you're all absolutely spot on out there. Now, I've been shopping to Iceland. Come and have a look what I got. About a week ago, I did the luxury um Indian banquet for one. Well, this is the excuse me, this is the Chinese banquet for one. Sweet and sour chicken with special fried rice and battered spring rolls, 500 grams. And there is the serving suggestion. I got a few messages last time with the Indian banquet and I didn't know it was a first for me. Apparently the definition of a banquet is a group of people sitting down enjoying a meal. So this is an actual oxymoron, I was told. Yes, an oxymoron. I had to Google that as well. So it's actually saying the opposite of what it is. A Chinese banquet for one. So anyway, the price it was £3.75. So let's take a close look at the packaging. Um, and if I haven't bamboozled, yeah, you I've just have a look um on Google about the definition of banquet and what oxymoron means. Um, I had to Google it as well. So let's um let's just get straight into it. There it is in there. It's frozen. I must admit, my first choice would not be sweet and sour. I've done a luxury um special. I think it was a luxury special curry uh many moons ago or it might have been a luxury beef curry. Yeah. Anyway, this is um sweet and sour chicken. A meal for one. You get two um battered spring rolls and you get a special fried rice. So, let's go around the back. Let's have a look at the side first. We've got some spiel there. Chicken breast pizzas in a sweet and sour sauce with special fried rice and battered spring rolls. Um, there's the spiel there. It's probably just what I said. Cooked seared chicken breast chunks in a sweet and sour sauce. Cooked long grain white rice with cooked scrambled omelette. Cooked charu pork peas and spring onion and battered vegetable spring rolls. Yes. What a lot of spiel. There's the ingredients. We've got allergens of wheat, soya, sesame, egg in there. So, yeah, cooked seared chicken chunks 18%, chicken breast 98%. Cooked white rice 17%. Spring rolls 10%. Um, got some nutrition there in more detail. If you want to have a look at that and pause it, study it, it's up to you. I know quite a lot of people are interested in the nutrition. Must be watching the weights. Yeah, my weights are in the garage. I don't go on them a lot like um anyways to cook 180° in the air fryer 12 minutes. You can microwave it. You can do it in the oven from frozen. You can Yeah, oven from frozen. There is a procedure. I will follow it as good as I can. So, I might have covered everything. If if not, it'll all be in the description of the video. So, let's um let's have a look at it and get it cooking. So, I'm going to what I'm going to do, I'm going to do mine in the microwave. If you do it in the microwave, you've to remove your spring rolls cuz I'm going to do them in the air fryer. So, let's do the seal peel test down here. So, I'm going to take them out. It gives us a chance to have a look at them as well. There they are. Look, it's frozen. You can see there's a ice there. Yeah. So, I'm going to put them to one side and I'm going to zap this in the microwave. So, my spring rolls are going in the air fryer. So, it's been in the microwave now for um 8 minutes. What we have to do now, we have to peel this back. Just be careful. Oh, it is hot, escaping steam and all that. Look at that. What you to do now is to add two tablespoons of water to your special fried rice. And you to give them a stir. So, I'm going to give these a stir. Yeah, there's plenty of um plenty of chicken breasts in there. I will count them when we get them out. There was there was 10 in the Indian um banquet for one. So I'm going to add couple of tablespoons of water to that now. Give it a stir and I'm going to put that back in the microwave for another 3 minutes. So the um the little panc vegetable rolls of have of popped. That one's um popped. Never mind. Never mind. still get it all in there. Yeah. So, I'm just waiting on my um I'll show you I'll show you them. Look, I'm just waiting on me um my main meal now that's in the microwave. They gone quite crisp vegetable. Oh, it's blowing out there now. All right, let's have a look at that. Bring you down. So, it's starting to the heat is starting to sort of buckle that there. Yeah, there it is. I'm going to dish it up. So, I'm just going to stick it on there like that. All that sauce. Yeah. Smelling quite sweet that sauce. These plates, these plates come into their own here. They keep everything in. Well, I'm making a bit of a mess here. We get the We get the um special fried rice is uh it's very very soggy. Yeah, it's not looking very appetizing. I only put a bit of water in like it said. Yeah. Yeah. Try and get it all. Try not to waste anything. Don't like wasting food. I hate wasting food. Hate it. Hate's a very strong word, isn't it? I don't like to use that often, but when it comes to wasting food, hate is a word I use. Let's try not to be too cheffy here. Quite a lot of vegetables in there as well. Let's have a look. So, it doesn't seem as as much. It doesn't seem as much as the Indian one. Let's have a look at the chicken. How many bits do you get? It's seared. Look. I don't know why they do that. One, two, being they process in the factory, won't it? So, there's four, five, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 bits of chicken you get. And yeah, you get char pork in here with um like an eggy omelette, scrambled egg. Um and then peas. We've had no escape peas. Oh dear. Right, I'm going to um I'm going to cut these open. We'll have a look what you can see. What's um you can see inside it. The vegetables gone everywhere. Yeah, I think that that's the one that they all came out. Yes. They're nowhere near like what you get for me Chinese, are they? There's absolutely nowhere near. I suppose they're deep fried in your Chinese. That tea towel's taking a hit. It's taking one for the team. Right, let's um let's try it. So, we'll try this. I'm just going to get straight in with a bit of chicken. bit of chicken and um some of the sauce chunks of chicken. It is actual chicken breast and not that sort of stuck together for me chicken. Um the sauce is it's not overly sweet. It's not overly sweet. Going to try this little spring roll. Vegetable spring roll. Nothing special. Nothing great. No. Don't like don't like I'm not keen on that. So, I'm going to try a bit of the old um is it special fried rice or special rice. It's quite watery. Quite watery. I did I just put a little little bit of water in. Didn't overdo it. Maybe next time just instead of putting two tablespoons in, just put one in. Um, yeah, just needs seasoning for me. Needs a bit of salt and pepper in in the rice. Taste the charu pork. You can't see it, can you? The chicken's okay. Nice and chunky. A little bit slippery cuz it's been done in the microwave. Um the sauce is a little bit sweet. There's pineapple chunks in there. I see. Love pineapple as well. I'm going to sort of combine it now. See if the sauce can counteract. Give it the rice a bit of flavor. Yeah, the sauce is okay. It's quite nice actually. The sauce spring rolls not for me. Um and and the rice the rice and the like the omelette eggy bit. It's not my cup of tea. Um the best part of that is the chicken breasts and the sauce. Not too keen on the rest. Yeah, just my personal opinion. We're all different, of course. You You might love it. You might love it. Marks out 10. Five. Five out of 10. Nowhere near as good as the the Indian version. That was really really good. Seem to get a lot more rice as well. Um and you get 10 pieces of chicken as well. So, thanks for watching. Do appreciate it. And uh if I could ask you to hit the subscribe button and give the video a thumbs up. Can't do any more than that. So, thanks. Thanks very much. I do appreciate it. Take care. All the best. And I'll get back to you on the next one.