Meal 8

Chicken w. Pepper Onion

Rating: 7(Succulent) 

Fortune of the day: You will overcome many obstacles.

I could literally copy Meal 7’s description and paste it for the Chicken w. Pepper Onion, subbing in the chicken for the steak of course. The two meals were identical except for the farm animal they decided to throw in the wok. In the title they switched pepper with the meat product and produced the same dish. Don’t get me wrong, it was still quite pleasurable to consume, it’s just difficult to find something special in this dish that I have not already told you about in Meal 7. Just in case you missed Meal 7 (which you shouldn’t because it’s posted directly below this one) the dish was cooked with green bell peppers and onions. They too were prepared to perfection adding an important flavor to the meal. The soy sauce based sauce was once again salty but with the right quantity. Given that no factor put my taste buds into a Full Nelson yet it was effortlessly devoured, it gets the same as the previous meal, a decent 7.

Meal 7

Pepper Steak w. Onion

Rating: 7(Succulent)

Fortune of the Day- You have only begun to scratch the surface of your real potential.

Today’s meal was rather ordinary. The name literally says it all. Pepper Steak with Onion had green bell peppers, steak, and onions. It was cooked together in a soy sauce base. The sauce had agreeable ingredients making it slightly salty but who doesn't like salt?  The onions and peppers were sautéed to near perfection with a crunchy outer shell and a soft, semi raw interior. The casually cooked veggies brought a lot of flavor to the table. I would say the Pepper Steak with Onion is an American stereotype of Chinese chow but nonetheless was real enough for my fancy gaining a succulent 7 on the taste scale. 

Meal 6

Chicken w. Broccoli

Rating: 6.5(Mediocre-Succulent)

Fortune of the day- Rely on long time friends to give you advice with your present question.

As you may have guessed, Chicken with Broccoli was very similar to Chicken with Mixed Vegetables. The main difference between the two was the vegetables obviously. This dish was cooked the same, stir-fried with chicken, except there was more chicken and only broccoli, a few carrots, and a hardly any bamboo shoots. You might think it would have tasted the same yet paradoxically it did not. The only explanation we could come up with was maybe the absence of vegetables left room for our palates to expand on the flavors. No matter the reason, the dish was a delight and got a check in our book for a 6.5.  

Meal 5

Chicken w. Mixed Vegetable

Rating:  5.5(Bearable-Mediocre)

Fortune of the day- Life is a series of choices. Today yours are good ones.

Chicken with Mixed Vegetables, the traditional Chinese cuisine, at least the American interpretation that is. This plate had a harvest of vegetables. The carrots, broccoli, and onions would have sufficed in their attempts to overload a vegetable lover’s enthusiasm. Instead, they decided to turn a vegan straight by throwing in baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and red and green bell peppers. Some people might enjoy the plethora of foliage in a meal, but when it hinders the flavor of what people love the most (protein), then it becomes a little cumbersome. What little chicken existed tasted quite alright. It was stir fried along with the veggies making it slightly crispier than previous meals. The sauce had a quirky vibe to it; being salty and sweet at the same time. This could work if one component was sweet while another was salty but since it was mixed together, it threw my taste buds into a stupor, not knowing what to think. As it was stated, the only beef with that chicken, besides the abundance of vegetables, was that it was too sweet to be that salty giving it a total rating of Bearable to Mediocre.