Grab Meal Review: Steak x One-Dried Food - "Chicken Steak on Rice" with "Gravy", "Grilled Saba with Soy Sauce on Rice", and "Bbq Chicken Steak"

Ordered from:
Steak x One-Dried Food Chan to Chan

Price breakdown (3 items):
Chicken Steak on Rice 99 Baht
with sauce Gravy +0 Baht
Grilled Saba with Soy Sauce on Rice 109 Baht
Bbq Chicken Steak 105 Baht

Each order asked if I wanted cutlery "Earn" or "Unagi". I was confused at this, as I know Unagi means eel in Japanese, and the restuarant uses another Japanese word, Saba, to refer to mackeral. With the order in front of me I can now ascertain that Earn means With Cutlery and Unagi (presumably) means Without. This also means they ignore the Grab app's switch that lets you request no cutlery.

Another thing to note about this restuarant is the misuse or potentially mistranslation of the word Steak, here seemingly meaning served plainly such that the item can speak for itself (on its own, with a separated side dish).

Items are served in well separated containers, each having a section for the main meat item, then a section for sauce containers and side dishs. The side dishes section is sometimes subdivided to stop, in the case of the dishes served with salad and fries, the dressing getting on the fries.

None of these items would make you full on their own, requiring, if unaccompanied with food from home (such as fruit and vegetables from a grocery store), 2 or maybe even 3 items. Factor that in mind when ordering.

Getting into the items now:

The Saba (mackeral; usually given a distinct flavour by marinading it in a special liquid seasoning) smells delicious coming out of the container, although it tastes a little plain without the syrupy soy sauce (with mixed-in seasame) provided in a separated container. With the sauce it is really quite good, though certainly not the best I've ever had. As with all these items, it comes with a miniature salad with cabbage, grated carrot, a baby tomato, and a creamy looking dressing. I wasn't interested in trying the salad because of the dressing, so I cannot comment on it's quality.

The Chicken Steak on Rice is sliced grilled chicken, visually lightly seasoned, on rice with a separated sauce to dip in. The chicken is highly over-peppered and one of my pieces contained an inedible knuckle, but it is adequate besides that. The gravy which I chose as my sauce is very beef-y (disappointing to me, as I am avoiding eating cow products as to not support the industry), and even more over-peppered. Very disappointing.

Lastly, the BBQ Chicken is seemingly a chicken breast (unsure of the cut) in a sauce with extra sauce provided, as well as fries and a packet marked "tomato ketchup". The fries are disappointing, tasting frozen, being unsalted, and lacking enough in crispiness to be limp. The BBQ chicken is cooked excellently and with a mild, barely spicy sauce (it has a little pepper on it, but it's no where near as strong as the gravy, say). I was surprised with the sauce as it's mild flavour, lack of sweetness, and complete lack of vinager, absolutely does not bring to mind BBQ to me; but besides that it was perfectly fine. Decent main, but terrible side.

Commenting on the value now; the BBQ chicken, noting that the side is terrible and the chicken is only so filling, and given that the chicken is only decent, is questionable value but is an alright item (if there is a version of the item for a similar price but on rice or in a deal together with another item you want, that would be the way to go); the Saba is a great item, being of good enough quality I was reminicing on my favourite restuarants back home, and is of a very reasonable price; and finally, the chicken steak on rice is hard to value due to the over-peppering issue, but I guess if you really like pepper it's a perfectly fine item for the price.

I recommend the Saba.

Restuarant and item names in the title are written as provided by the Grab app with Thai to English translation on in settings.

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Attribute to review author "Nicolete Lovejoy".