Silver Vegan Chicken Balls

[rikibeth]

are not silver, nor do they taste remotely like chicken.

They are vegetable-protein meatless balls (they taste the same/ if you close your eyes/ and thirteen orders of fries) with no particular fake-meat taste of their own, and a texture that eternaleponine pronounced "non-squoogy."

They are in a reddish-brown, very sweet sauce that tastes almost entirely of cinnamon. Not even five-spice powder. Cinnamon.

There were snow pea pods in there with them too. Snow peas are good. But they shouldn't taste like cinnamon.

And, sprinkled liberally on top, there were fried bean thread noodles. Or, as eternaleponine put it, "tasty styrofoam."

I guess, since those noodles were white, that was the "silver" part?

It was a worthy experiment, but I don't think we'll be ordering them again.

Comments

[ceilidh71.livejournal.com]

eh? where's the silver? that's not cool. and "non-=squoogy?" non-good. ;)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

no, no, "non-squoogy" is HIGH PRAISE. You do not know how many brands of meatless balls we have rejected on the basis of their squooginess.

So clearly we need to go to the Asian grocery in search of the plain meatless balls, and then put a different sauce on them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

food post, yes, but I don't say "hi" enough even though I read your posts!

[pookiegroupie.livejournal.com]

there was one i bought at edge of the woods years agi... it was powdery. mix with broth and boil for 5 min.
while that didn't work, biling for 20 min, straining them, and then baking them did work.
quorn at stop & shop is easier.

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Now I'm stuck with an image of Chef from South Park singing some soulful tune that has your subject line as the title!

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

meatless balls (they taste the same/ if you close your eyes/ and thirteen orders of fries)


Exactly what immediately came into my head. :)

[fasteronfire525.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahha. icon love. <3

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

If you really want Silver Vegan Chicken Balls, I recommend getting the Salted, Roasted Chicken from May Wah (it's vegan). You can also use their drumsticks; their fake chicken is pretty good, and I'm an omnivore. Serve it with cellophane noodles.