3/5 Stars 🌟🌟🌟
The back of this box is so hopeful.
It says it’ll bring me “The Flavors of San Francisco!”. It assures me that this one will be good because, “our trained chefs took a trip to SF neighborhoods that are famous for Asian cuisine.”
Honestly, that’s kind of sad if true. That means that they traveled from Lean Cuisine’s home of SOLON, OHIO all the way to the City by the Bay, only to learn that they can mix chicken, rice and sauce.
I hope what really happened is they were enjoying the sights of SF – the Mission District! The Golden Gate bridge! A very large Urban Outfitters store! (I’ve only been there once, but these are the things that stand out in my memory). Then returned home, panicking because they forgot to look for exotic new tastes, so they threw this together based on what they already had in their freezer.
Honestly, no judgement! That’s like how I got through all of school! Anyway. This is not the worst Lean Cuisine I’ve had.
Taste: 3/5
The sauce tastes less like soy sauce and more like liquid cardboard, but a not in an unpleasant way.
Ease of cooking: 4/5
The suckers at Lean Cuisine wanted me to pop this in the microwave for 3 minutes, stir and then ANOTHER 1 minute. I only did it for the first 3 minutes and honestly, it was fine. Although to be safe, can someone please check in with me tomorrow to make sure that extra minute wasn’t the key to this not being poison?
Appearance: 3/5
It KIND of resembles the picture on the box, in the same way that i KIND of still resemble the photo of me from when i was 23 that I’m still using on LinkedIn. It’s clearly the same human, just more downtrodden by the world.
Overall: 3/5
Solidly mediocre! Shoot for the moon, Lean Cuisine, because even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the 3 star ratings.