GrabFood — Lucky set ($7.90)!
GrabFood lockdown dinner — Lucky set $7.90. Surprise-mix delivery box with random combinations to break up the rotation.
Monday lockdown dinner — pulled the Lucky Set option on a delivery menu for $7.90. The “lucky set” or “mystery box” format was one of those lockdown-era marketing experiments where restaurants threw in random combinations at a fixed price to clear inventory or test customer reactions.
We ordered:
- Lucky set — $7.90
The lucky set format works as follows: you pay a fixed price, the restaurant decides what’s in the box based on what they have that day or what they want to push. You get the surprise of opening the box at the kitchen counter and finding out what dinner is.
This particular box came with:
- A main protein dish (turned out to be a rice plate with chicken)
- A small side dish (vegetable stir-fry)
- A drink (sweetened tea)
The chicken main was a glazed thigh piece over rice — savoury-sweet sauce that had soaked into the rice underneath, with a few stir-fried vegetables tucked alongside the chicken. Standard chain-restaurant chicken rice format with a slight upgrade in sauce quality.
The side dish was a small portion of stir-fried mixed vegetables — carrot, cabbage, and a few wood ear mushrooms. Quick fire-toss style, light salt-and-soy.
The drink was a standard sweetened iced tea, sealed in a takeaway cup.
$7.90 for a delivered surprise-set during lockdown is fair pricing — at the lower end of GrabFood combo offerings.
What made it work was the format psychology. The mystery aspect turned an ordinary delivery dinner into a small moment of “what did we get?”, which adds a tiny bit of fun to the otherwise routinised lockdown delivery cycle. We weren’t expecting transcendent food, but we were curious about the box, and the act of opening it added 30 seconds of small interest.
Overall: 4 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Surprise-set lockdown dinner — would try the format again.
