McDonalds Chicken Tatsuta

Today it was cold and wet, so I couldn't take my eldest son out to a park to let him get some exercise, so I decided to take him for a train trip instead.

Nothing exciting, he just doesn't get to ride on the train unless I take him. So I took him to the town I work in and we looked around a few stores including the Disney shop, then we went to McDonalds.

Currently they are advertising the Nippon All Stars, a series of burgers that are unique to Japan and Japanese taste. This fortnight it is the Chicken Tatsuta, so I thought I'd give it a try as it was on the lunch time special for ￥590 (the same as the Big Mac meal).

Doesn't the picture above look appetising? Freshly baked crusty bun, slow cooked patty with a generous serve of fresh grated cabbage and mayo (?). It looks very different to what I found on my tray.

The bun resebles the picture above and the cabbage resembles that of the picture above, but I couldn't have imagined a buger that looked more different to the advertising picture. It tasted ok, I won't be having another one.

My son isn't a big fan of McDonalds, he hardly touched his cheeseburger so I offered to buy him some onigiri instead. I asked him "what kind of onigiri do you want?" and he replied "no wasabi.".

A week ago I had bought him some tuna-mayo onigiri and he discovered that it had wasabi in it. He said that it was spicy and offered for me to eat it. I was shocked as I had never had onigiri with wasabi in it before and I would never have bought it if I had guessed it had wasabi.

So I thought his answer today was very cute.

How about you? Have you ever had food that wasn't quite like the image? Have you had a surprise in something you ate because you didn't read the label properly?