Looks: The only difference from box to bowl is that the sauce is thicker in real life, and this gives the entire dish less of a “shiny” appearance and more of a “mucky” appearance, to use a technical term. 4.5 out of 5
Taste: Have you ever made a bowl of chicken, noodles, and vegetables, and then just for the heck of it, mixed in a few tablespoons of peanut butter? No? Because that would taste weird? Yeah, it would taste weird, wouldn’t it. If this meal came without the peanut sauce, it would probably rate a 3.5, but the thick peanut sauce was just too much like peanut butter. 2 out of 5
For people who want a real peanut sauce, mix in a tiny bowl a tbsp of peanut butter, 1/4 tsp of really hot chili sauce, and a tbsp of dark soy sauce. Squish this together (careful, it splatters! take it slow.) And warm it for a few seconds in the microwave. Keep mixing and heating till you have a smooth semi-liquid rather like melted chocolate. Then slowly mix in water, heating and mixing till it’s liquid enough to apply to whatever cooked items you have. This tiny amount can richly flavour a whole litre of cooked macaroni. Enjoy.
That’s one of the closest matching foods about which you’ve written.
>Have you ever made a bowl of chicken, noodles, and vegetables, and then just for the heck of it, mixed in a few tablespoons of peanut butter?
Yes. Yes, I have.