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Another new Bento Box

It was a Friday in Bristol, wanting lunch I headed off to Finzel Reach street food market.

I went to She Sells Streetfood and went with a bento box and went with the same choice I had last time I was there. This was the Beef Donburi and the Katsu Fries. 

The beef donburi was delicious as always. It’s a fantastic dish with flavourful tender beef in a teriyaki sauce, not overpowering served on rice with pickles, cucumber salad and spring onion garnish.

beef donburi

The Katsu fries are dressed with katsu sauce and furikake seasoning. On top are two crispy pieces of fried chicken.

Katsu fries

This time the chips were hotter than previously, though the chicken was better last time, I think last time it was chicken thigh whereas this time it was chicken breast. I personally prefer chicken thigh for this kind of dish.

As I have written many times, this is one of my favourite street food vendors and the food that Lisa serves is always very tasty.

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Homemade Kung Pao Chicken

Homemade Kung Pao Chicken

I took half a pack of chicken drum fillets and sliced into strips. I then coated the chicken with some gluten free flour.

I fried off the chicken in a wok until crisp and brown.

I removed the chicken from the wok and removed the excess oil from the wok.

To the hot wok I added some stir fry vegetables. When the vegetables were cooked I added a pack of Lee Kum Kee Kung Pao Chicken Stir-Fry Sauce and the cooked chicken.

I served the chicken with some sticky rice.

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A new Bento Box

It was a Friday in Bristol, wanting lunch I headed off to Finzel Reach street food market.

I went to She Sells Streetfood and had something different this time. I went with the Beef Donburi, but instead of the Udon Noodles, I went with the Katsu Fries instead.  

Katsu Fries

The beef donburi was delicious as always.

beef donburi

I enjoy the tender slow cooked beef rib which is full of flavour.  I did enjoy the fries, but they weren’t hot, just warm. It was a really cold day, and I think they weren’t that warm when they were served, but I did enjoy the seasoning, the crispy chicken, and the katsu sauce.

I think I prefer the Udon Noodles, but it was nice to have a change.

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Korean Chicken Wings

I have had these chicken wings (from Sainsburys) a couple of times now and have really enjoyed them.

In a pack of The House of Chicken Korean Crispy Chicken Wings, you get a number of wings in a crispy breadcrumb coating. They also come with a Korean style BBQ sauce.

The cooking process is nice and simple, you cook the wings in the oven and then when nearly cooked you add the sauce.

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Charlie Bigham’s Thai Panang Chicken Curry

Charlie Bigham’s Thai Panang Chicken Curry

This curry was on special offer at my local Waitrose. It is tender chicken in an aromatic Panang curry sauce with coconut, lime, lemongrass & ginger. It is served with some fragrant rice.

I followed the instruction and cooked the dish in the over for 20-25 minutes.

This was a lovely and mild curry, you could taste the aromatic flavours in there. The chicken was tender and I really enjoyed the whole dish.

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Quick Sweet and Sour Chicken

Quick Sweet and Sour Chicken

Sometimes you want a quick meal, and you don’t have the time (or the motivation) to spend hours in the kitchen.

For this quick Sweet and Sour Chicken I used the (frozen) Battered Poppin’ Chicken from Aldi. This £1.09 box contains portions of chopped and shaped chicken breast in a breadcrumb coating. When picking these up, note that they also do a Southern Fried version, which probably doesn’t go well with sweet and sour sauce.

These are baked in the oven, from frozen, in about 10-15 minutes.

In my wok I stir fried some (prepared) stir fry vegetables. Once they were cooked, I added a sachet of sweet and sour sauce. I used one I had picked up in Tesco for 50p. I then added the chicken to the wok and served with rice, and topped with some pea shoots I had in the fridge.

Obviously you can cook your own crispy chicken, I have in the past used chicken thigh with a flour coating. I prefer this to Aldi’s Poppin’ Chicken, but it does  take more time, and makes more mess. This meal was about doing things quickly. 

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Conference dinner at the Marriott

Back in October I was at a conference at the Marriott in Glasgow and there was a nice conference dinner.

For the starter we had a confit pork and apple terrine. I wasn’t a fan to be honest, the terrine was rather plain and I don’t really like oatcakes.

The main was a roast chicken supreme stuffed with haggis. It was served with dauphinoise potatoes and vegetables. This was rather nice, not spectacular, but tasty.

The salted caramel tart was very rich, it really needed some ice cream to offset the richness.

Overall I did enjoy the meal, certainly better than some conference dinners I’ve had, but not one of the best.

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Grilled spatchcock chicken

I was staying at the Drayton Court Hotel in London. One of the hotels I regularly stay at in London is the Drayton Court Hotel in West Ealing. It’s a easy trip from West Ealing station to the heart of London and is always significantly cheaper than central London hotels. 

Looking over the menu and deciding to go with something different I chose the grilled spatchcock chicken with endive & herb salad, hazelnuts & chilli oil. I liked the sound of the salad and I did think grilled chicken would be nice, especially as I assumed it would be cooked on the chargrill.

Grilled spatchcock chicken

I was intrigued by the plate of food which arrived on my table. I wasn’t quite sure at first what I had been served, but eventually worked out that this was a spatchcocked poussin sized chicken. I cooked grilled chicken quite a lot and I felt that this grilled chicken could have been cooked with more care. I will say though the endive & herb salad, hazelnuts & chilli oil was very nice. I do like hazelnuts in salad and they added flavour and text sure to this salad. Though described as endive & herb salad, I couldn’t see any herbs in my salad. It was a great salad, the chicken though was something of a disappointment.

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Japanese-Style Crispy Chicken

The last time I was in the Netherlands was in October 2022 when I visited Amsterdam for a conference. Having spent a few days in Delft at a conference, and meetings in Utrecht I took the train back to Schiphol Airport where I had booked a hotel, the CitizenM, which is literally next door to the airport.

I ordered some Japanese-Style Crispy Chicken, which was described as karaage inspired juicy chicken bites, served with lemon and Kewpie mayonnaise dusted with Japanese 7-spice.

This was beautifully presented dish and looked great. The chicken was cooked well, with a nice crispy coating. The spice level was perfect. I really enjoyed these.

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Teriyaki Chicken Donburi

Helsinki

Back in February I was on a trip to Helsinki in Finland for a few days for work. I was staying at the Scandic Hotel Simonkenttä in the heart of the city.

For a quick good value meal I went to Momotoko in the Kamppi shopping centre, it was close to the hotel, and it was nice food that was reasonably priced. Part of me wanted to have some authentic Finnish food whilst I was in Finland, but I was on a budget, and I quite like Korean style food. You order at the counter and then they bring the food to your table.

I had enjoyed my previous donburi at Momotoko so when needing something to eat it was easy to head back there. This time I went with the Teriyaki Chicken Donburi, this was rice with teriyaki sauce and chicken slices. It was accompanied by marinated egg, shiitake mushrooms, edamame beans, marinated cucumber, sesame seeds and spring onion.

chicken donburi

This was a delicious bowl of food, fresh and tasty. The chicken was tender and nicely done. I liked all the accompaniments, I did like the egg and the mushrooms.

I also had another Kimchi Fried Chicken Bao, which I had on my previous visit, This was chicken fillet, salad leaf, fresh cucumber, kimchi, momo-mayo and spring onion in a steamed bao bun.

This was similar to bao buns I have had elsewhere. A crispy piece of chicken, the freshness of the salad constructing well with the kimchi. Really tasty bun.

I have since found out that Momotoko has now closed down, so if I ever get back to Helsinki, I won’t be able to taste these dishes again.