WingMan

I sometimes work out at the ESporta gym at the south gate plaza. When I’m in town. I’ve seen McNally on and off over the last 10 years or so. You can’t miss him. His ears are even bigger in person. Maybe because he’s older now.

I have a lot of experience with making and more with eating wings throughout the US and internationally. Believe it or not they have been frying and eating wings longer in Asian countries than we have been doing it in the US. To answer your question: I think a medium or average sized wing by Buffalo standards is more than big enough. Too small and they are tedious to eat and prepare. Too big and you seem to get less of the crispy surface and they take forever to cook. Also, a premium price for the large wings. I’m not a big fan of heavy breading but I have had plenty of wings with a bread like coating that were delicious. I favor naked but wings but I believe that wings should be judged by the end product like any other food. Outside of buffalo I almost always ask for extra crispy. Biggest issue for me is a flabby wing. A more common problem I noticed when visiting buffalo lately. I have personally experimented with all types of sauces. I love a lot of Asian inspired sauces. Sweet, salty, hot with other interesting flavors. I think the best evolution of the wing is to char them after frying then sauce again. I love a crispy, saucy wing. FYI. I have lived in Phoenix for the last 25 years but I spend a few months in Buffalo every year to get good wings and pizza. I love to see new developments with the food.

soul glo for beards?

I did not renew my membership with them over covid as I was not traveling internationally. I just looked them up using an old link from an email and the site seems to be gone or changed. It was a sketchy platform that cost like $10 a month and you would get 1200-1500 stations.

I’m guessing that you do not get to Hanoi very often. Vietnamese sports bars are rather sparse and the ones that I have found are typically english speaking but not american. They are constantly watching the other futbol on every station, TV and time of day or night. I typically take my firestick and plug it into any TV where I stay and watch games using a service likes “Steve’s Cablecutters” where you can watch the local buffalo stations with the corny commercials ass well. If you find a place, be sure to share as I have yet to see one. And yes, the games are on during the early hours of the morning so most places are closed anyway. Hanoi is +11 hours over EST. Enjoy VN.

Only Commies refer to it as HCMC. It’s Saigon for the rest of us.

Bar Bill and Castaways in Angola are my two favorite wing places and Wingnutz was better. The ambiance not so much but strictly on the food, yep. If you go to Castaways, their everything wing is my go to sauce. If you request, they’ll serve them extra saucy.

I’m originally from Buffalo and I eat wings everywhere I go. I’ve worked in plenty of restaurants and have been making my own wings for about 15 years. These are the best wings I can remember ever having. Their version of mild was my favorite sauce. Sweet and spicy actually with plenty of other flavors. They NEED a real restaurant location. It seems that the owners are in it for the love of food, not the money.

My brother owns a brewery in South Portland. "Island Dog Brewery" I know that they are doing outside seating in tents of some sort. There are not a lot of Bills friendly establishments in the NE area but this is definitely one of them. There is a decent pizza place in the same complex. I'm not sure about the restrictions at this point but worth a try when you have a chance.

I was in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam the past two years on extended vacations. I wore Bills gear on and off through the trips and only had a few people make a comment. I think they were all Germans. It seems that most Americans that travel there and actually get out on the streets are lefties who don't follow football. It was really hard to find sports bars that had any American football news. Mostly the other type of Futbol.

My older brother moved to Portland, ME about 10 years ago. He started a brewery about 18 month ago in S. Portland. He’ll have the game on. He is of course a Bills fan and will most likely give any WNY people the Buffalo discount. His place is “Island Dog Brewing”. I’ve been to Portland and to other parts of Maine and will say if you like to do things outside other than snow shoeing, you’ll want to get back there in the summer. However, there are many great places to eat and a lively micro brew scene there for when its cold out.