Oreo BTS Brown Sugar Pancake Flavour (Tesco) By @Cinabar

Oreo have joined up with BTS, the Korean boy band, to introduce these Oreo BTS Brown Sugar Pancake Flavour biscuits. The flavour is based on a popular traditional Korean sweet street food and sounded fab. The biscuits are also bright purple in colour, which is the official colour of the BTS fan community.

I opened the pack and they are seriously purple. They are very bright! The biscuits all feature BTS logos and designs, and I have to say this feels like a proper collaboration rather than just a new-flavoured Oreo. The aroma is lovely and sweet, with plenty of vanilla. Inside, there are two cremes: brown sugar and vanilla pancake.

I gave one a try and these hit my sweet tooth at full blast. The flavour is pure sugary goodness, with lots of vanilla and caramel. There are also little sugar crystals mixed in, just to make absolutely sure maximum sweetness has been achieved.

I have a sweet tooth, so I loved these, and they were perfect with the contrast of a coffee. I’m not entirely sure about the purple colour. I do love the colour itself, but food-wise it implies a berry flavour. Then again, if they had gone with pancake brown, we’d basically be back to the ‘Golden Oreos’, and that wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun.

I can see these selling out fast, but in the sleepy end of town where I live, there was a full card display case of them. So, if you want to give them a try and can’t find them locally, it’s worth looking a little further afield.

Kokoro Wolverhampton - Delicious Korean-Style Food [@NLi10]

 I eat in Wolverhampton after work quite often - but we tend to go for big meals not snacks so have avoided Kokoro until now.  We didn't know they had a seating area upstairs either which helps. 

They are a franchised out Korean style food place, that makes to-go food ready for quick gettaways, but also nourishing food bowls for those of us willing to wait.

Some of these take-away options looked ace.

My colleague went for the Katsu - which was a pretty generous portion but the chicken was pre-prepared

My Beef thing had to be made fresh - guess it's less popular.  I wanted something 'not spicy' but I think the KimChi rice (£1.50 extra) added the spice back in.  At a level that was great for me though

The Mogu Mogu grape drink was more than enough to quench this and at £1.90 was premium but not import tax prices.  

A great mix of flavours, and veggies, and the rice was not boring (hooray!) so we will be visiting again.

And as they have veggie things my partner is excited, and they will deliver to Nannas house too.

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Tesco Taste Discoveries - Korean Pork Belly Roast [@NLi10]

 Sometimes I’m home-alone and fancy something a little more interesting. I spotted this in Tesco in their new themed section and figured it was worth a shot.

A few of the discount supermarkets have rotating ranges like this, so I figured that this was likely of a similar high quality.

But I hadn’t spotted it’s literally a bag of meat, a sauce and some herbs!

You basically pop the meat in a roasting tin and fire away, so plenty of time to make sides.

Doesn’t look great ‘unboxed’

Prepping the Udon noodles

Looks better after a little roast, and then you slowly add the glaze

And it looks pretty decent on the plate! I figured that slicing it as suggested in the kitchen would be unnecessary but i probably would do that next time.

Luna thought that it definitely smelt like something she should be allowed to assist with.

With hindsight i think i should have picked up other boxes in the range to use as sides, but it worked really well and im happy to go back for more.

Korean style fried chicken by YO! (at Iceland) by @NLi10

 While looking for things to combine into deals at Iceland I spotted this reasonable approximation of my beloved spicy chicken from Yakinori.

Oh no - they tricked me into buying chicken nuggets!

Well - a little higher quality - these are at least bits of chicken - and the source is very luxurious.

But - we are adults so lets add a few vitamins to the mix too

I didn't put the sauce in the oven obviously, but everything else just went in together which was nice and easy.

And along with some lovely garlic bread this made a decent little meal.

The sauce is the star - turning the ordinary battered chicken into a Korean delight - I only used half of the sauce too so I can have it on other things.  Well worth a pick up if you are in the market for oven food but also gives me a lot of faith for the other Iceland restaurant-at-home options I have stashed away.

Korean Inspired Gochujang Pork Limited Edition Wrap - on a Tesco Meal Deal (@NLi10)

I like picking up odd things for lunch - and often let the Yellow Stickers of Destiny guide me.  Today in my Special (discount) Diet we take a Tesco wrap, and add a drink - and Olives which I didn't know were in the meal deals but make me so much more likely to do the thing.

I chose the  Korean Inspired Gochujang Pork Limited Edition Wrap as it sounded quite exciting - and then I opened it...

...They've tricked me into buying pulled pork - GAH!

Pre-chewed food like pulled pork really isn't my thing, but they've tried pretty hard with all the extras here.  

First we have a little spicy mayo, then a few shredded veggies and pickles - but most importantly they haven't spread it all evenly so you get lovely little pockets of fairly exotic flavours, on a lunch break in Birmingham! 

For £3 for the drink, olives and a wrap I can't really complain.  The healthiness of the deal is of course, down to your individual choices.