Flaming Wings

January 4, 2013. Friday.

We love trying out food places that we haven't been to before, but sometimes that sets us up for disappointment. In the 6 months since we have started this blog and in the one year that we have been together, we have set some standards for different food items. Like for example, Rodic's will always be the best tapsilog for us. But we still try different tapsi joints even though we know it will pale in comparison to our standard and leave us open for disappointment.

This is one of those cases again. No matter what anyone says, Buffalo's Wings N' Things will always be the best chicken wings joint for us. But that doesn't mean we don't go out and try other wings places. So for this entry, we were in Flaming Wings White Plains.

I like the predominantly red interiors of Flaming Wings, it felt cozy together with the leather seats and blacktop tables. It was also well lit with pinlights all over the celing. Since it was our first time, we browsed through the menu first. Their menu has a whole lot more other items than just chicken wings. There's pasta, sandwiches, rice meals, and desserts. But since we went here for the wings, we had to get wings! All orders we had were for sharing.

New York Style Chicken Wings, 5pcs.

New York Style Chicken Wings, 5 pieces.

5 wings to share?!?! You must be shaking your head in disbelief. Calm down. I was a little disoriented by how Flaming Wings quantifies their wings. We were originally going to order the 15 pieces since we were sharing it, but the waiter informed us that the 15 pieces was actually 30 pieces since there's the wing itself and the sort-of-shoulder part that connects the wing to the body. Good thing he informed us, or else we would've been served with a whole lot of wings! So 5 wings (which was really 10 pieces) it was. As soon as it was served on our table, I was quite puzzled at how dry it looked. I'm used to having my buffalo wings glazed, if not swimming, in its sauce. This one just looked like any plain old deep fried chicken. The taste was okay, it had that mild zing and a little sourness. It was fried nicely, but you can't serve buffalo wings and skimp on the sauce! Plus, the blue cheese it came with was just weird to the point that we didn't even bother using at after initial taste.

Fish and Chips.

Fish and Chips.

Surprisingly I liked the fish and chips more than the chicken wings in this place. The fish a light coating of batter, which was really crispy. I'm not sure what batter they have (if it had any beer in it) and what oil they used to fry the fish in (if it was drippings or lard, or just regular vegetable oil), but the fish was really good. The chips/ fries were also perfectly fried, and cooked to the inside. It was a little oily, but then again most great fish and chips are! If there's one thing to nitpick here, it's the sauce. Just like with the chicken wings, the sauce served with the fish was really weird. I've never seen a green colored tartar sauce. I'm not even sure that green gunk was tartar sauce. It had the consistency of mayo, but really tasted lemony sweet like it had sugar in it. Ugh.

It was a hit and miss for this visit to Flaming Wings. The food, the wings in particular, wasn't really bad. It was more of it wasn't up to par to what we expect. Anyway, the place was nice and the staff was really courteous especially with explaining the menu. So despite my qualms about this place, we really didn't feel ripped off afterwards. A good meal is still a good meal.

Flaming Wings
Bellitudo Lifestyle Center, Katipunan Ext.,
White Plains, Quezon City
(02) 738 1263
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flaming-Wings/265052803521204