Native hack elevates comfort retailer meals in seconds.
Whenever you’ve been consuming one thing the identical approach for years, it may be onerous to think about doing issues every other approach, so when our reporter Anji Tabata got here throughout a comfort retailer bento hack whereas scrolling by Twitter, her eyes had been opened to an entire new mind-set.
Like many life hacks, the brand new discovery made her really feel slightly silly for not having thought to attempt it earlier than, but in addition curious to see if the outcomes had been pretty much as good as reported. So she headed out to choose up a bento — “bento” is the widespread time period for pre-packaged meals at comfort shops and supermarkets, even when they aren’t in a conventional field form — and check out the hack for herself.
▼ She determined to check out the Khao Man Gai at 7-Eleven, which is priced at 699 yen (US$4.93).
Khao Man Gai is a Thai dish through which boiled rooster is positioned on prime of rice cooked in rooster soup after which the entire thing is topped with a scrumptious sauce. This model from 7-Eleven appeared to have all of the essential parts for a great Khao Man Gai, with a Thai vermicelli salad often known as Yum Woon Sen on the aspect as effectively.
Whilst you may eat it straight from the bowl, appearances all the time assist to boost the flavour so this hack helps you get probably the most out of your meal in simply three straightforward steps.
1. Take away any movie that is likely to be masking the meals inside, and switch the bento over with the lid nonetheless on.
2. As an alternative of eradicating the lid, fastidiously take away the bowl, then place the plate on prime of the uncovered meals and flip it over so the meals and lid stays on prime.
3. Now all it’s a must to do is take away the lid and the meal is immediately remodeled right into a extra expensive-looking dish that appears like one thing from a restaurant fairly than a comfort retailer.
Transferring the sauce into slightly aspect bowl of its personal helps so as to add to the restaurant impact, and as soon as Anji ate the meal, she was actually stunned by how significantly better it tasted in comparison with her common technique of consuming straight from the bowl.
Although she’d initially been involved that her clumsy fingers would possibly trigger the hack to fail, it was simpler than anticipated, and the outcomes turned out to be higher than she’d anticipated. After all, in the event you’re going to do this hack, you’ll need to select your bento fastidiously, as it really works finest with spherical bowls with a lid, the place the components are organized individually or on prime of the rice. You may attempt it with a sq. or rectangular bento as effectively, supplied you might have a plate that’s large enough to suit the whole meal on.
An important half is guaranteeing the meal has a lid that received’t let the components fall out simply, so a bento like this or this could work properly. It doesn’t take lots of effort to rework a comfort retailer bento right into a restaurant-quality-looking dish, so give it a attempt in the event you can and tell us if the outcomes labored effectively for you too!
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