![]() ![]() We would have loved to try this in another size option, but it doesn’t look like that will be happening anytime soon. Currently, this one is only available in the 11 oz. We should also point out that many of Tai Pei’s other dishes come in a variety of sizes. And considering that so many frozen food brands do sweet and sour chicken so poorly, we welcome guilty-pleasure food over mediocrity. We see this as a goopy guilty-pleasure dish rather than some fancy-pants dinner, but sometimes that’s okay. The Tai Pei Sweet & Sour Chicken is a mess, but it actually tastes pretty darn good. On the other hand, there’s only 580 mg of sodium. There’s not a lot of food here, so this might not even fill you up. This meal contains 470 calories, which is quite a lot for a serving of this size. The biggest thing the veggies do for this dish is add some much-needed crunch. None of it is particularly outstanding, but none of it is notably bad either. It’s a meager portion of carrots, green bell peppers, and onions. There are some veggies in the dish, though not nearly as many as you might believe upon your first glance into the carton. As a result, it turns the rice into a big, goopy mess, albeit a tasty one. In fact, there’s maybe just a bit too much of it (though maybe they portioned this out for a dish that had way more chicken than this one does). This is a very, very sweet sauce, with citrusy undertones that lean way more toward pineapple than orange. However, the flavor is actually quite good. We counted four pieces in total, though maybe there were more that evaporated during the cooking process. On top of that, there’s hardly any chicken in this meal at all. If there was a sponge cult for chicken, this stuff would totally be into it. This is the kind of chicken that attends sponge conventions and takes advice from sponge life coaches. We’ve had spongy chicken before, but this stuff takes sponginess to the extreme. It’s spongy and so soft that it disappears in your mouth, almost like cotton candy. You’ll want to give this a good stir before digging in (or do what we like to do and empty the contents into a serving dish). Tai Pei tends to put the rice on the bottom with the chicken and veggies on top. Now, a top-down look into the carton is always deceptive. (If you want to read the full cooking instructions, check out the package scans at the bottom of this review.) That’s normal for Tai Pei dishes, and there’s even a warning about this on the carton. When you open the container after heating it, you can expect it to be about half full. They come in cardboard containers, so you can just break the seal off the edges and toss the rest into the microwave. We’re not sure they have the chops to pull this one off.Ĭooking one of these meals is pretty easy. We recently tried a couple of Tai Pei’s fried rice dishes, and we thought they were just alright. ![]() We’ve been burned one too many times by the promise of tasty sweet and sour, so now we just go into new ones expecting mediocrity by default. Today we’re looking into the Tai Pei Sweet & Sour Chicken, and we have low expectations. So now we’re trying something else in the hopes we’ll strike it rich and find some of that super-rare sweet-and-sour gold. We recently tried Lean Cuisine’s improved version of their old sweet and sour chicken, but it was unfortunately no match for the Marie Callender’s version (which is surprisingly good). Our hunt for tasty frozen sweet and sour chicken continues here at Freezer Meal Frenzy.
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