A Disappointment of Onions

Is there anything more disappointing than biting into a sandwich and finding it full of onions?  I understand that many sandwiches, and most burgers come with onions by default.  It is one of the defining factors of my existence, that I have to special order things and tell them to....

....wait for it....

Hold the Onions!!!

But, three times recently, I have been annoyed to find that what I bought had been infested by a disappointment of onions.  Yes, I just coined the phrase.  You have a murder of crows, a pride of lions, a mischief of mice, and now, I am adding to the English language...

A Disappointment of Onions

Which, shall be defined as...

Enough onions to ruin whatever dish they are added to.

If I ruled the world, every menu would be required to include ONIONS in big red letters beside any dish that included onions.

When I can see the onions in the picture of the item, or can reasonably assume that onions will be in the dish (you do not know how hard it is for me to put "reasonably" and "onions" in the same sentence), then I am careful to order them without the offending onions, but today's sandwich showed no outward sign of onions (and there was no big red ONIONS on the menu), and since it was a chicken sandwich rather than a burger, I gave no consideration to the possible presence of the evil onion.

Well, I think that this is my first onion rant, but I doubt it will be my last.  The last two onion offenses were both by browned onions, I am not sure I would call them caramelized, but I am betting that they do.  But, onions on a BBQ chicken sandwich?  That is simply not necessary, and it is not listed on the menu, nor does it show in the picture.  Unfortunately, it was a fast food restaurant and I had driven off before I discovered the onion pollution.

Well, at least I will remember next time.

Hunan North

Hunan North

9306 N Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78753

(512) 837-2700

I cannot think of a clever way to start this review, so I am just going to jump in. I ordered my usual Sesame Chicken. It was a little above average in price, being over $8 including tax. It it's even more above average when I discovered there was no eggroll included. I was rather surprised. The meal did include Hot and Sour Soup.

It smelled good as I carried out out to my car. The pieces of chicken were quite large, some thing else that was above average. I cannot say the same for the portion, which was adequate. There was broccoli mixed in with the chicken and an adequate amount of sauce. The soup cup was filed right to the top.  The rice was fried and their was a double scoop, once again above average.

Unfortunately, the taste was not above average. The chicken was fatty and often chewy. The sauce was a little on the sweet side, and worse had very little flavor depth behind the sweet. It was a bit bland. The rice was much worse, since it was very bland. Fortunately there was enough sauce to flavor most of the rice.

Now any regular readers of this blog will know that I am more of a fan of Hot and Sour broth than I am of the soup. The first I tried it I was rather put off by the unidentifiable floaty bits in the soup. Much later I discovered that the worst looking stuff was the egg that is put in at the last moment.

Hunan North's Hot and Sour Soup was in keeping with the rest of the meal, large in portion and average or maybe just below average on taste.