About the price of chicken fried rice?

[EvansAndThePrince]

DH and I have just ordered Chinese food for dinner and despite me begging that he doesn't embarrass me by ordering such a non-meal he has ordered chicken fried rice for £6.

I've ordered crispy shredded beef in satay sauce with a portion of fried rice for £6.50.

AIBU in thinking that chicken fried rice shouldn't cost the same as an actual meal?!

Fried rice as an accompaniment to a meal is more of a Chinese takeaway food ordering sin to my mind, than ordering chicken fried rice as meal.

Hopefully your DH and the takeaway place aren't judging you for it.

It was only this weekend when I was sitting in my local takeaway when they dragged a man in to the counter.

He repeatedly cried 'all I want is prawn crackers' But the attack was relentless.

No person is safe out there...

Oooh, I have bad Chinese envy now. My jacket spud is in the oven.

CFR: £3.70
3 bed detached: around £500k

I so want to do a scatter graph of the answers. Looks like I am an outlier currently.

Chicken fried rice is the food of the gods...with chicken chow mein and Hong Kong style sweet and sour pork to share with myself

Oh and

£1.2million and £6

London prices

Our Chinese does plain fried rice in small containers or fried rice with meat or prawns with veg in big containers.

Meals like sweet and sour chicken come with either chips or rice within the price or you can pay 50 p extra to have plain fried rice instead.

Or you could get chicken fried rice as a meal, you get more and there is also chicken and veg in too, so an actual meal.

I quite fancy Chinese but like Chewbacca I'm having a jacket spud instead. DP is away at the moment and we'll probbaly have Chinese when he gets back.

Still can't work out why CFR would be embarassing.

CFR - £5
We don't have any detached houses round here but a 3 bed semi D is about £200k

Chicken Fried Rice 2.90 at the cheap chinese 4.10 at the less cheap and less nice one.

No 3 bed detached but a 4 bedder is 1.2 million

Not even in London!

But now realising how very cheap the cheap chinese is!

Ahh, big fat satisfied sigh. Chicken fried rice, with extra chilli & pineapple and Dh picked up prawn crackers on the way home. Supper of the gods.

A fiver and 200k.

Also I have to defend the OP I would cringe if DP ordered just a rice dish, in my house Fried Rice is and always has been a side dish. I wouldn't ever even order chicken chow mein as a main meal and that is at least wet.
CFR dry sounds like eating a stack of Jacob cream crackers without a drink to me

It's a rip off because chicken fried rice is the absolutely easiest thing to make?

It's what I cook when I have nothing but freezer stuff. And everytime when DD is at the childminder and I have to do a packed lucky.

I will not pay £6 for it.

Chicken fried rice - £4.30
3 bed detached - around £725k

I have neither...

There are no 3 bed detached houses where I live. You can have a 4+ bed detached or a 3 bed semi/terrace a bit further away.

You can, however, get chicken fried rice. But only 2 takeaways will deliver to here.

how did I end up starting a house price/CFR price comparison?!

In my eyes fried rice is an accompaniment (I wouldn't eat my shredded God knows what beef alone!) so to just chuck some dry chicken on top and have to pay so much seems daft. When plated up my beef dish and his CFR were the same side, so mine ended up being much bigger with the added rice.

Admittedly if it came with some of the mentioned things, eg prawns and such, in it then I'd be less judgy about it but he doesn't even order a sauce with it! Just...dry fried rice with dry, unseasoned, tasteless chicken. And peas.

And CFR - £6
Semi detached house - £215,000

CFR £4.10

£300,000 for a 3 bed detached

There is definite evidence that the higher the house price the lower the Cfr price.

CFR £4.50
3 bed detached £165,000 (but some on rightmove at £240,000ish)

I'd happily have one of the rice dishes on its own, so wouldn't be embarrassed by your DH's order

So you issue isn't the price it's taut you don't think your dp ordered a good enough meal?

Does it matter? You didn't have to eat it?

It's a main meal. Not a side dish. So it's charged as a main meal.

CFR £5.60
3 bed detached are rare, start at £900,000

I don't really like the saucy things at the Chinese, apart from curry, but we usually make that at home because it's instant just add hot water stuff that is available cheaply in some normal supermarkets and the several specialist Chinese supermarkets that we have in our city.

But the sweet and sour stuff is just radioactive goo and everything else just seems to be a light gravy that doesn't taste of much.

So I prefer the dry noodle stuff and if I got bored of that I might try the special fried rice instead, which is just a mixture of prawns, pork and chicken instead of chicken alone. Our Chinese marinades the meat and puts garlic ginger and soy in when cooking, so not dry and tasteless at all.

Let your DH have the meal of his choosing, you don't have to eat it.

I have a horror of chicken fried rice, because it has eggs in it. Chicken cooked in/with eggs. It just freaks me out. It's like eating an entire reproductive cycle.

Arkhamasylum
I had a flatmate who used to make chicken omelettes, it just seemed so wrong.

Yes. Chicken omelettes

I'd eat a chicken omelette
I stupidly clicked on this thread instead of starting work and now have an irrational need to eat Chinese food

Now I would NEVER eat a chicken omelette BUT I do often order - and can make it myself - CHICKEN FOO YUNG. It's delicious!

... but must be just like a chicken omelette, only folded over.