Honey Chicken

Honey Chicken and the Economy

I ordered honey chicken tonight from a local Chinese takeout place. The food was very good and the price was cheap. In this economy, Chinese food might just be the best deal to save money on food.

The honey chicken that I ordered tonight was delicious for the price. When I say for the price I mean it literally. If you gave me the same meal and charged double the price than it wouldn’t taste as good. Yes, this is possible. Price does influence taste, unless the food is exceptionally good.

Anyway, the honey chicken that I ate tonight had its own style. Some Chinese food places cook honey chicken by slapping a honey glaze on the chicken’s crispy exterior. This honey chicken was chicken in a semi honey soup. That is, the honey sauce was semi diluted with a water base. The way it was done was acceptable. With so many styles to cooking this dish, I believe that there is no one right way to do it. This style was very tasty and worked even better when I put rice in its sauce. I then ate the rice with the honey chicken to achieve the optimal effect.

I also ate hot and sour soup with the honey chicken. I ordered a quart of each. The hot and sour soup was cooked nice but had a little too much tofu. I don’t like when they prepare hot and sour soup with too much tofu. It hides the other ingredients’ taste.

There was a reason why I named this article honey chicken and the economy. Although I wanted to discuss my Chinese dinner tonight, I wanted to make a point. The point was that I believe that Chinese food is a great method to balance the budget in this economy.

My dinner tonight was less than $13. Could you believe this? This meal was good enough for at least three people. That’s about $4 a person. I ordered a quart of the honey chicken and a quart of hot and sour soup. The white rice came with the meal and the egg roll was free. All for $13. Living in expensive America right now, Chinese food has got to be the cheapest way to eat (or at least one of the cheapest foods). Don’t get me wrong...there are other foods comparable like pizza or Vietnamese food, for example. But Chinese food is probably more common in the average American city than Viet food and pizza is probably not as healthy.

So if you are looking for a way to eat healthy, eat cheap, and eat well, just think about what I ate tonight for the price and maybe you will reconsider your eating habits. The best part about tonight’s dinner is that I don’t have to clean up when it was all done.

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