Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I am both grateful and disappointed to admit that someone has finally made authentic Buffalo wings commercially available in Beijing.
Grateful, because it's nice to have something to snack on late at night (though not terribly good for my diet. I just had five wings on my way home tonight). Disappointed because I wasn't the first to get to it.
It never bothered me that some places offered "spicy chicken wings." Nobody has ever gotten it right. When you make good, authentic Buffalo wings, people like them. Now, if it were my bar, I'd include the celery and carrot sticks for free (especially in China, where vegetables cost less than water), but, we can't be perfect.
So, for those of you who don't know, COX is the name of the place that serves the wings. They're connected (not physically, but ownershipwise) to The Saddle. COX is a hellishly goofy name, but their wings get my approval. They need to work on the Qingdao. It's so bad that I wouldn't finish a nice cold bottle of it despite my burning mouth.
As an aside, I just did a Google search for "Cox Beijing," and got Jim Boyce's site as the first result. I love the internet.
Grateful, because it's nice to have something to snack on late at night (though not terribly good for my diet. I just had five wings on my way home tonight). Disappointed because I wasn't the first to get to it.
It never bothered me that some places offered "spicy chicken wings." Nobody has ever gotten it right. When you make good, authentic Buffalo wings, people like them. Now, if it were my bar, I'd include the celery and carrot sticks for free (especially in China, where vegetables cost less than water), but, we can't be perfect.
So, for those of you who don't know, COX is the name of the place that serves the wings. They're connected (not physically, but ownershipwise) to The Saddle. COX is a hellishly goofy name, but their wings get my approval. They need to work on the Qingdao. It's so bad that I wouldn't finish a nice cold bottle of it despite my burning mouth.
As an aside, I just did a Google search for "Cox Beijing," and got Jim Boyce's site as the first result. I love the internet.
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