Red pepper chicken in a pot - Japanese family mart

Hello and welcome to today's eating video.

Hope you're very excited to watch me eat.

Today we're going to be eating this

chicken in a pot. Pot chicken? I don't

know what it's called. I, I'll call it

chicken in a pot. From Family Mart costs—

how much did it cost? I don't remember.

Maybe ¥200? Could be. Who knows? Who

cares? Oh, it says right here, ¥230 for—

no, it's actually ¥248, tax included.

And if we have a closer look at the

packaging, there's a nice image of chicken

with red peppers, so I'm assuming this is

going to be fairly spicy. On this

side we have— I'm not sure what this is.

Oh, allergies. If you have a wheat

allergy, um, milk allergy,

egg allergies, then you shouldn't be

eating this. Good to know. Here we have a

barcode and then there's some writing.

I'm too lazy to try and decipher that.

Here we have ingredients. 85 grams.

Keep below 10 degrees Celsius. And here we

have— oh, microwave instru— oh, I'm

supposed to microwave this. I thought you

just eat it cold. Good thing I read the

instructions. So here it says microwave

500 watts for 50 seconds or 1600

watts then 20 seconds. So I'm going to pop

this into the microwave. Be right back.

15, 16, 17,

18, 19, 20. Okay,

50 seconds later and I have a piping hot

cardboard pot of chicken. It's very,

very hot, so I'm gonna wait for it to cool

down a little bit. In the meantime, we can

have a little chit-chat over coffee. So

how's your day been? Uh-huh.

Oh really? That's, that's fascinating.

Thank you for telling me that. I guess

whilst we're waiting, I could describe

The smell. Let me give it a whiff. Ouch,

it's very hot. You can see inside it's

red. So what does it smell like?

It smells like, um,

chilies and chicken. It smells very

pungent. I guess pungent would be the word

that comes to mind when I smell this. It

kind of hits you in your nose. And at the

back of your throat. It's quite a strong

smell actually, but you eventually get

used to the smell and then it doesn't

smell so strongly. Let's open up the lid a

bit more, see what's inside. How many

pieces did they give me? There's— oh,

let's open this up properly first.

Let's see, it's very soft.

Can you see that? Let me get rid of this

lid first, it's getting in the way. So

this is inside of the chicken pot. The

chicken is extremely soggy, as you would

expect. It's not going to be crispy. I

mean, it's inside of a sealed pot and we

just put it in the microwave, so obviously

it's not going to be crunchy or crispy.

It's very soft and wet, like a sponge that

has soaked up some moisture. Okay, so I've

decided to get a plate, so we're going to

plate it up so we can take a a closer look

at the product. So that's how

many pieces of chicken you get inside of

the pot. You also get a little sachet of,

I don't know, silicone gel probably.

Okay, so how many pieces did they give me?

Uh, let's count them. 1, 2,

3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 7 pieces.

And as you can see,

they're very squidgy, soggy, and kind

of wet, making a squishing sound. Can you

Okay, so for my next test, I'm going to

use 2 forks to pull apart the biggest

piece, see what's inside, see the

consistency of the meat.

Hmm, okay, let's see,

have a bit of a close-up here.

Yeah, it's just chicken, nothing special

Next up, we have the taste test. I'm going

to give this piece a try.

It smells good, actually. Smells like

fried chicken.

Hmm. Oh,

oh, it's very spicy.

So the flavors I'm getting are obviously

chicken and spice.

It kind of tastes like— imagine you bought

some fried chicken and then you put it

inside of a cardboard box and left it in

the fridge overnight, and then you put it

into the microwave and heated it up.

That's kind of what it tastes like. It's a

bit like It's a bit like leftover fried

chicken from the previous night.

Hmm, it's not bad.

I'm not repulsed by it. I'm quite enjoying

the flavors. The texture isn't great.

I think if you put this into an oven and

oven cooked it, it would go crispy.

Maybe we can try that next time.

I'm really sorry if you can hear shouting

Japanese men outside. I have no idea

what's going on. I suddenly heard this

crash, this crashing noise, and then there

was a lot of shouting. I think someone

dropped something. I have no idea what's

Hmm, hmm, you know, it's not actually

that spicy. I don't mind

spicy foods, but I'm not, I'm not very

good at eating extremely spicy food.

But this isn't too spicy for me. I can

handle it without drinking anything.

We could do an experiment and put a few

pieces into my oven toaster and see what

happens. Okay, so I've just come back from

the oven and I've oven cooked this for

about a minute, and let's see if it's

crispy. It's not really crispy. It's,

it's not as soggy as the other pieces,

but it's still pretty soggy. As you can

see,

I think I might need to put it back into

the oven for a bit longer. Hello, so it's

been a few minutes since, um, I put this

in back into the microwave. I mean,

it's been a few minutes since I put it—

fuck. It's been a few minutes since

I put this back into the oven, not the

microwave. And I give up. It's not going

crispy. It's still soggy.

If you can hear that, no, there's just no

crispiness going on at all. So if you want

this to be crispy, then I don't think

you're going to have much luck unless you

deep fry the whole thing. Let's give it a

taste. Maybe it tastes better after being

in the oven.

It's very hot.

And spicy.

Well, it's a tiny

bit crispier than the other pieces.

Let's try this bit. This bit hardly has

any chicken. In it at all. It's just

batter. Look, it's completely batter.

No chicken at all. Yuck.

It's not

bad as a little— sorry about that— as a

little snack. I don't think it's a bad

product.

But the thing is, the thing that I don't

understand is, well, how much does this

cost? It costs ¥230,

and you can get proper fried chicken at

the convenience store for less than ¥230

actually, and it's proper fried chicken

that's crispy. So I just don't understand

why you would buy this pot chicken over

freshly fried fried chicken, which is

cheaper.

Maybe it would be good for picnics. You

could buy a couple of these pots. I'm not

sure how, how it would taste cold. Maybe

it tastes not too bad cold.

If so, then you could just buy a couple

pots, put it into your picnic bag And

then have it as a side dish.

Hmm, quite tasty. Not bad,

not terrible.

So that was the red pepper chicken

purchased from Family Mart Japan.

Thanks for watching.