afterwords

tonight i went to AFTERWORDS at kramer books for dinner and i had "thai water buffalo wings", which came with maytag blue cheese sauce and celery. i also has smashed cauliflower because cauliflower is a great but under-rated vegetable.

so one thing to know is that i LOVE wings. i didn't discover wings until i moved to the east coast for college and i've been gnawing on them ever since. eating them always reminds me of the superbowl sunday during my freshman year when 5 guys from my hall and i ordered 500 extra spicy wings and pledged to not get up until they were all gone. needless to say, it was a disgusting day and i'm sure i've shaved a few years off my life due to it.

anyway, afterwords does something interesting to the classic buffalo wing. they put sriracha into the sauce and on the plate, making the wings (which aren't over-fried) spicy and allowing you to increase the heat even more. sriracha is one of my favorite all-purpose hot sauces. actually, it's one of my favorite all-purpose sauces, hot or otherwise, so the addition of it to the wings was great. like traditional buffalo wing sauce, sriracha is spicy and tangy, but it is also a little sweet, so it cuts the vinegary sharpness of the buffalo sauce just the right amount while still maintaining a great intense flavor.