7-Eleven Salmon Roe & Chicken Rice Rice Balls: So Good!
Meow meow, hi everyone, and welcome back to our rice ball unboxing corner! Every now and then I bring you all kinds of different rice ball flavors. I bet plenty of you grab a couple of rice balls from 7-Eleven before morning classes and munch on them while you study, but with so many flavors out there it’s easy to get stuck on which one to pick. So I went ahead and bought them all to taste-test for you.
Nutrition info for the aged salmon roe rice ball
Today we’re trying two newly launched rice balls: the aged salmon roe and the chicken rice rice ball. Let’s start with the aged salmon roe.
Healthy? 😃 (Calories/sodium per serving: 190 kcal / 341 mg: 7.6% / 14.8%)
Tasty? 😁
Price? 😥 (NT$49 per serving)
Portion? 🥺
Recommend? Super tasty!
Texture and thoughts after eating the aged salmon roe rice ball
From my years of rice ball experience, the filling usually settles at the bottom, so once you open it up it helps a lot to give it a turn before you start eating. It’s called “aged salmon roe,” but it’s actually made with half salmon and half rice, which honestly tastes way better than just plain roe. It adds an extra layer of texture, and salmon plus salad is simply delicious. Once that dynamic duo finishes its act, you get to meet the salmon roe itself. The roe is just the right size, and when you bite down it bursts open with its own briny saltiness, the juice spreading over the rice so it never gets boring. It’s a respectable, well-made rice ball. That said, I don’t think the filling was distributed very evenly, so there’ll be one little bite that’s just plain rice.
Nutrition info for the Lin Cong Ming chicken rice rice ball
Next up is the Lin Cong Ming chicken rice rice ball.
Healthy? 😃 (Calories/sodium per serving: 206 kcal / 426 mg: 8.2% / 18.5%)
Tasty? 😐
Price? 😐 (NT$36 per serving)
Portion? 🥺
Recommend? Once is enough
Texture and thoughts after eating the Lin Cong Ming chicken rice rice ball
The moment you open this rice ball you can smell zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) right away, a lot like that fragrant oily rice you’d cook up in a big pot at Dragon Boat Festival to stuff into the dumplings. The shallots combined with the soy paste make this rice ball completely different from the ones I’ve tried before, as if it’s announcing to the classmates sitting on either side of you, “I’m eating a chicken rice rice ball!” Overall it makes the rice in the rice ball anything but boring, with a little of that savory, salty shallot flavor in every bite, and the chicken inside is shredded super fine, even finer than the chicken you’d get from a regular chicken rice shop.
Screenshot from the 7-Eleven official site
https://www.7-11.com.tw/freshfoods/1_Ricerolls/index.aspx
That said, I felt the chicken was marinated a touch too salty, with a bit of a flat, overly salty edge to it. If they could dial the overall saltiness down just a little it’d be better. This rice ball is a good pick for people who don’t love plain rice, because you basically never end up with a mouthful of nothing but white rice, you’ll always get at least a little sauce along with it.
Alright, that wraps up the review of these two new 7-Eleven rice balls. Below there’s another rice ball post you can check out if you’re hungry for more options. If you enjoyed this article, feel free to drop a like or hit follow. Thanks, my dear Mai-Mais, and I’ll see you in the next post!