Crazy wings

Tim and Food Paladin Denis are Feeling Foody on a Friday arvo. Crazy wings it is.

 

" What kind of name is Crazy wings!? pshhh, whatever we'll give it a go" - Tim

" Retardedly spicy chicken wings? Now I'm excited" - Denis
"You think I can be defeated by a mere chili?" - Tim

10 seconds after the first bite

Ex-Paladin Denis

Thinks I'm feeling the HEAT

30 seconds

Throwing the towel in after one wing. Denis loses his title
of food paladin for wasting a chicken wing.

Throwing fire after finishing the wings

 Buying a fire extinguisher

Weapon of choice

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Okay, so continuing down Dixon St. there's Crazy Wings, a Chinese BBQ experience of coal/wood skewer BBQ that you usually find on the busy smokey street stalls in China taking us all the way to Silk Road, quite an unusual focus for a Sydney restaurant.

Table, bowl, chili powder salt, cup ahha! Tissues are vital!

Now that we're seated and greeted by the earthly aromatic of toasty cumin we get our menu. There isn't a terribly wide range to choose from, any meat that isn't their Original lamb or chicken wings is offal of some sort. We decided to stick to the dictionary definitions of meat.

Original lamb and chicken skewers

BT wings

Fried tomato and beef rice bucket

mmmm cumin

We knew lamb fat tends to taste rather foul when left cold so we finished them first. Beautifully grilled, lovely helping of cumin, just the heat needed to fight the lamb fat. The original chicken that was cooked in the same way. The fried rice was a little different to what we normally see, it was closer to a risotto than anything else. I'm guessing the rice was slow cooked in chicken stock then fried with beef while keeping the water level high and adding the tomato in the end. Quite nice.

Oooh they look so harmless and so delicious here!

Here was the highlight of the night, that made this a rather unforgettable experience. How should I start? BT wings is an extremely vague but accurate translation for what these wings really are. BT stands for 'Bien Tai' which means really messed up or f***ed up in this context and we only understood this after we thrashed about in our seats for half an hour. Oh dear..

On the menu there was a curious little order under the BT wings, a fire extinguisher ($1.00) which I believe is a set of tomatoes? Well anyway, when we asked the waitress for the wings she asked us if we were sure and then gave us some pitying look that was close to something like "These kids don't know what they're getting themselves into. Like most super chilis the first seconds begin with a strong flavour reminiscent of paprika. From this point the heat mounts exponentially until you feel as though the restauraunt manager is ramming a nice head of cactus up and down your throat.

Having said all of the above, Crazy wings is a restaurant before the BT wings. If you're going to try them, save them for last.

Good place for about: 2-8 people

Expect to spend: $10-$20+ per person

Value: 7/10 - Not too bad, you get a $10 voucher for every $20 you spend

Taste and food quality: 8/10 - Enough chili to get you kicking, some high quality fried rice, just don't let the food go cold!

Ambience: 9/10 - You get a bit of room to share the pain with some friends. Lovely place for some giggles! Remember to order some BT monster wings and hide them under the victim's rice.

Service: 7/10 - It was rather difficult to get a good explanation of the menu. The food came out quickly and all at once though which was nice.

Overall rating: 8/10

If you're feeling adventurous or have a really cocky friend who thinks they can take on some chilli then head on to Crazy Wings, if not, it's still a nice way to spend a meal chatting and chillaxing.