Wagamama Kids Chicken Cha Han

Wagamama kids chicken cha han costs £5.50 and carries 392 kcal, which makes it the cheapest chicken main on the kids menu and the closest thing wagamama serves to the fried rice every child already understands. Chicken, white rice, egg, carrots, mangetout and sweetcorn come tossed together with the sweet amai sauce running through it.

Cha han is Japanese fried rice, and the kids version plays it perfectly straight: soft rice, small pieces of chicken, egg folded through, vegetables diced small enough to escape notice. Nothing crunches unexpectedly, nothing carries heat, and the amai sauce sweetens it just enough to feel like a treat. For the child who refuses noodles in all their forms, this and the katsu plates are the whole kids menu, and the cha han is the lighter spend of the group.

The kids chicken cha han calories land around a fifth of an adult's 2,000 kcal reference day, with around 16 g of protein, around 10 g of sugar and a moderate 1 g of salt, a third of what the kids ramen bowls carry. That balance makes it one of the saner picks on the list for regular visits, and the price supports the habit; only the yasai cha han undercuts it on the kids mains board. Against the kids chicken yaki soba it trades noodles for rice and drops a little protein, and against the katsu plates it skips the fried coating entirely.

The allergen line is unusually short for a chicken dish: eggs and soya, with no published may contain entries, though wagamama does not mark the dish gluten free and the shared kitchen rule means a coeliac family should still ask the server to check. Parents working out how much is the kids chicken cha han against the rest of the table will find it leaves the most room in the budget of any chicken option. Beef brisket and kimchee gyoza give the adults something with edges to eat beside it, and a cherry blossom lemonade turns the order into a proper occasion.