Guilty Pleasure #1

I value good food. But not all good food comes from a top rated restaurants. Sometimes, good food can come in the form of grocery store Chinese food. This is one of my weaknesses:


General Chicken, Cashew Chicken, Fried Rice, Egg Roll and Crab Rangoon.

Our local grocery store chain, Hy-Vee, has a Chinese Express in most of their stores. It's quick, relatively cheap, and damn good. It's not authentic Chinese food, more like an Americanized version of the classic Chinese dishes. In other words, it's as Chinese as Taco Bell is Mexican.

What I love about it? The sauces are done perfectly. Flavorful but not overpowering. The proportion of meat to veggies is excellent, neither component is lacking. And the dishes were the chicken is fried like the Sesame Chicken or General Chicken? Outta this world. Even under all that delicious sauce, the chicken is still crispy.

I've probably eaten my weight in Hy-Vee Chinese food over the years. I love it that much.

If you haven't been, go. now.