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Wing stop hot wings7/26/2023 It’s an umami packed, soy sauce forward offering of starches and proteins rich in grease and flavor. It’s an institution here, a narrow selection of Cantonese diner cuisine that has been dumbed down, a broken translation for the LCD American palate. It has been labeled as such because many of these restaurants feature a thick wall of plexiglass beginning at standing counter height, with a just-tall-enough window and rotating plate that allows for the exchange of money for food - poured into lidded plastic cylindrical quarts and pints, or stacked in brown paper bags - between back and front of house. “Bulletproof Chinese” is a genre of restaurant common to any New York City resident. The restaurant is locally famous for its chicken wings, so much so that its shorthand nickname is forever linked to its DBA online. All over New York City, there are literally thousands of restaurants exactly like it in every way except for one. The restaurant is located on Utica at the northeast corner of its intersection with Snyder Avenue, an ugly four-lane and low-slung, very Caribbean commercial strip of East Flatbush. The name serves to accentuate its generic anonymity. A nondescript takeout Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn with no tables, cheaply tiled and harshly lit, papered with out-of-date fliers and advertisements, called, literally, “China Restaurant," located at 937 Utica Avenue, is the business page and first hit. Right now, if you’d like to see something remarkable, open a browser window and enter the words “Snyder Wings” into a search bar.
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