Friday, February 27, 2009

Unidentified Flying Chicken

I'm not a big fan of chicken wings. But the husband is on a quest to find the best chicken wings in NY, and I am thinking, eh why want to eat chicken wings in NY huh, since we have the real (and cheap) stuff at home already? (start from Commonwealth market, then travel 2 miles to Ikea, then if you want travel across causeway to eat Ayam Goreng, then got time go north and eat Gai Yang in Thailand then..)

Anyway, THE place to go to is K-town's Bonchon Chicken, only opens from 4pm onwards and like everything else, is just a little more expensive being in Manhatten. That explains why I haven't gone, like who goes to K-town just to eat chicken wings?

After some investigation, it was revealed that the REAL Deal could be found at Unidentified Flying Chicken, which had landed in a Koreanised part of Brooklyn we had yet to explore.
So we (I reluctantly) schelpped down to identify this place with the ridiculous name. 3 subway transfers later, we found the place - once, just to make sure it existed, the second time to actually order the wings.

20 wings came with 2 free sides. We got garlic soy and tangy mustard flavours with baked fries - the salad just to ease the guilt. It WAS good. Crunchy and juicy even tho they were oven-baked. Flavourfully salty with a touch of sweet.
After 13 wings and 2 sides, we packed up the rest for dinner ...and more for lunch the next day. I felt sick for the rest of the day because I've never had 8 pieces of fried chicken for lunch before. But I guess the chicken wing outing was a good way to learn, when it came to wings in an angmoh place, Koreans really ruled the roost.

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