Souphead Yunan Congee soup

Well Veetee, famous rice suppliers have launched an amazing ready meal products like ramen, soups to pasta.
The range is inspired by Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese etc.
It is a new addition to noodle head which were stir fried noodles in a pouch.
Previously tried the mac and cheese which was delicious but I was trying to get my hands on the chinese inspired congee soup which wasnt at any of the big tescos i visited.
Anyway finally got hold of it Thanks to my brother.
I have been looking for this product since 9th July when my brother messaged me about this and now its exactly a month later! "
Congee is like savoury rice pudding without dairy and has a thinner consistency just like Spanish Arroz Caldos.
The product is labelled as Yunan congee soup, a hearty rice porridge with vegetable broth, garlic and sesame.
The taste of this was comforting, despite being vegetable broth based, it still had that chicken umami.
The thing that really packed a punch was the ginger and garlic.
There was so much ginger pieces it, the garlic tasted like rehydrated dried garlic with bitterness.
Overall, I felt that it tasted like Korean herbal chicken and ginseng congee with that umami and bitterness.
I'm sure if a Korean tasted this, they would agree.
I also googled yunan/Yunnan congee and nothing came up except this product so I'm not quite convinced it has anything inspired by Yunnan.
Anyway, worth trying if you can find it at tescos.

On a recent visit as well as several visits to Tesco Purley, 8 Purley Road.

I found three packs vegetable soups with congee sleeves.

The printed details at bottom of the pouch clearly say vegetable soup.

Batch No USCS09024 FSSAI LIC NO 10816020000119

The picture with four pouches show the correct pack of congee on the bottom right corner which is creamy in colour.

Waitrose N1 pistachio panna cotta

I'm not the biggest fan of panna cotta due to bad experiences because it wasn't fresh but recently got my confidence back from a miso caramel panna cotta hence when I discovered pistachio panna cotta had to try it.
It was definitely nice as expected, the panna cotta was thick, creamy with lots of vanilla seeds without being too sweet.
The pistachio sauce on top was also rich and nutty with a savoury note.
Overall, it was really tasty but I felt the ratio of sauce and panna cotta could be better or the shape of the container could have a bigger radius with less height so that it works out better when you spoon it.
The current container is really tall hence most of the sauce is finished and you are left with panna cotta after a few spoon if you use a tea spoon but a table spoon would be too excessive.

nairn's Marmite & cheese oatcakes from Waitrose

Nairns oatcakes are delicious but these cheese and marmite ones are bloody delicious.
Moreish, cheesy with a hint of marmite.
They taste like dry crumbly twiglets without the brut saltiness and stickiness.

Malibu x Oatly at Paradise arches!!

Love the pina oatlada softs serve which is served in an edible cocktail glass shaped hard waffle style wafer.
It was refreshing and not too sweet on a hot day as well as only having 1.7% volume of alcohol.
It was only 2 pounds and unsuspectingly vegan!!!
The only catch is that you can only go in during public sessions when there are no ticketed events at the same time and  they are closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

It would be great if the soft serve bar was near the entrance so it would be easier for passers by or people not attending the events to purchase because when you see people walking around with this soft serve it promoting it.  

 

A visit to Sadat Afghan Bakery

Discovered Sadat Afghan Bakery one night while driving past so made a note to visit someday.

Finally paid it a visit and to try something.

The shop is small so everything is in the glass cabinet.

I wasn't sure what to expect but definitely very different to English bakery and somewhat similar to Indian and Asian.

As I have already tried Afghan naans elsewhere, I got the chocolate pecan pastry which turned out really nice.

The texture is definitely nothing like Danish pastry but firmer yet still flakey like Asian Wife Cake with egg brushed on top before it was baked.

Will definitely get this again but this place is hard to get to.

New MINI M&Ms and Cookies

Size Matters! New MINI M&Ms and Cookies.

Adorable to eat and the cute little M&Ms can be sprinkled on to anything.

The cookies were tasty with fine crunches from the mini M&Ms.

Available in @tescofood now @mmsuk

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