Eggy Bread

I actually made some of this the other day, but that is completely off topic.

I have now relocated to the other side of the world, literally and now reside in New Zealand. This doesn't help anyone looking for a cheap feed in London, but i can continue to update my lunches and see how they compare.

The best value place i have found over here for lunch is the humble supermarket. But New World Thorndon, so fresh made to order sandwiches, just like home.
To order a sandwich, you grab your highlighter and one of their pre printed pads with your options and start highligthing until you have created a monster sandwich.

Being a cheapskate i get two, but the cheapest possible sandwich, that costs $3 each and can have only one salad item. Fortunately for me, condiments don't count as an item so i get loads of bits to make it taste nice.

I took a pic of the giagantic filling on my egg sandwich (don't forget the mayo, which over here is the same as salad cream)

The egg component dwarfs the bread, i think my my guess the egg layer is about 2 inches thick, thats a lot of egg.

 

I can't actually find anything better at the moment. There is a chippie down the road and a wholly bagels, but i wasn't too impressed with the pizza, it said it had toppings, but i only found cheese and tomato on a piece of soggy cardboard.

 

Apostrophe Hot choc-shite

Stay away from the hot chocolate, its the worst thing you will every have in your entire life short of drinking your own feces.
Its thick and when I say thick I mean it, its almost undrinkably thick. As you are trying to drink it a skin forms over the rolling liquid, it will just touch your lips before the skin breaks and the volcanic filth burns your throat and you regret ever buying the damn thing in the first place.


The taste.....what taste, if i wanted to drink something that tastes like thick chocolate custard i would be down the supermarket like a shot. Whoever they had as their taste tester needs shooting, scalping and stringing up. Harsh you might say, but if other people think like me there is no hope.

No idea what it costs as i never bought it, i wouldn't buy it with anyone elses money.

I gave it another try today just in case the thick version was just a mistake, but no! the regular version is still crap. it has such a rank taste and a lump of gelatinous brown muck in the bottom half of the cup, even though i used the provided stiring stick to mix it a bit.

Total bollocks, don't touch it.

If you want hot chocloate and you want something crazy and chocolate, go to Paul's and get their stuff, its essentially melted chocolate. Very rich but if thats your thing its much better tasting.

Burrito Joe

This is a new place that has sprung up and I believe it was mentioned briefly in one of my other posts.
The Burritos come in a few different flavours, although with Burritos they can all end up tasting the same.

Located in the churchyard down Bow Lane, its a small stall where the food is already cooked and waiting. The tortilla is quickly heated up and the fillings are loaded up.
Chicken outweighs the other options by about 4 times, but I had some pork that was burnt and wasn't all that great and i have also had the beef which is sparingly applied.

Overall this gets a 5/10, its OK, but its far from great. The price is £5.50 for achicken burrito.
 Its a good few inches shorter than the burritos from tortilla so it gets marked down. (I notice they have a new branch in Wimbledon)

btw they aren't allowed to sell drinks because of the guy that sells coffee next to them.

Japanese food and things

I had this the other and and its worth a mention due to being full of duck.
As we all like a bit of the pond flapper, that is the best thing i have eaten in this food place.
The establishment is called nobo or something (it could be i just made that name up), its in the underpass by bank tube and is quite frankly very good food.
The price leaves a lot to be desired, but you get a load of food in your cardboard box, probably more than the homeless guy who lives just a few steps away.

I gave that homeless chap a crisp £20 note one day when i was drunk, he says hello now every day. It reminds me when I was walking down oxford street and a hari chistna monk accosted me and wanted to talk about some god book or other, i honestly can't remember. I had an hour chat about god and ended up buying a book off him for £30, i must have been out of my mind.
Anyway, to continue, 3 years later i was walking down oxford street and i happened across another of these chaps and i proceeded to name drop the book title and the author. He was suitably impressed and gave the the sequel for free!

I think i used it to prop up a chair or something.

Back to the food, nice, nice, nice. about £7 though for the lunch. There is filth in cans i think are best avoided. Its some sort of plant gel with aloevera flavouring. In a nutshell its one of the worst things texture wise.

The only thing worse was something i bought for a colleague, it was a coconut drink, but not any old one, the rankest thing i could find. It was the consistency of man juice with bits..hahaha. Gross, he couldn't drink it.

4/10 for price, but the flavour is good.

Breakfast

This little cafe does the best sandwiches ever! Thats a fact.
It looks a bit gross, but this delicious sausage and egg sandwich topped off with ketchup and the secret sauce.....Tabasco!!! Just what you need to wake you up in the morning.

This little feast costs £2.75, and it well worth it, pick your up from the Brio cafe. Just make sure you check your order if you get served by the old fella, otherwise you will end up with something you didn't order, like a haddock between two ring binders.

I give this a 8/10 for breakfast

New Food

It seems the drought has ended, there are a few more places to eat round this way that offer reasonable food.
Burrito Joe  and Unnamed Thai stall, both of these are by a main road, so provided you don't mind a bit of carbon with a side of monoxide, these places are perfect.
Some new japanese food place x 2
There is even a Pod opening up.

I will get some snaps or the like for like offerings, since they are good for comparing against the other companies.

I have been steadfast in my avoidance of Tescos for anything more than just a fleeting lunch, its boring as hell and i am over it. These days it all tastes the same.
Did i forget to mention they introduced a new wrap after my suggestion (Hurah someone listens to me), coronation chicken. It got pulled because not enough people were buying it and also I imagine because it tasted like the leftover from a curry house bin.

Stand by for an update shortly!