I was getting Ryan his annual East Met West Chinese Take-out Calendar and I saw these big ads for Thai Sweet Chili Wings. Looks pretty good. Taste pretty good. Similar to sticky honey hot wings.
I noticed the other day they had the same signs up at another Chinese Take-out. And I just Googled and I see this chick posted several Yelp events for these Lee Kum Lee Thai Sweet Chili Wings at local Chinese Take-Out spots. She’s pretty cute. I wonder if she’s real? Like the film Catfish?
This link below is an interesting read –from the point of view of a young Chinese American working in the Chinese Take Out family business for 12 of his child/teenage years.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/61338066.html
Luckily for myself, I only had to work a few years at one of my parents’ restaurants down in Florida. It was a different scene there. My craziest memory is when I worked with my best friend Bill Brown at our drive-thru spot. Â He thought it was always funny to talk back on the intercom without his finger on the Talk button between dialogue. Like “(on) Okay, you want Sweet & Sour Chicken (off) Idiot (on) and Shrimp Fried Rice (off) Dumbfuck. But then one time his finger was still on the Talk button. The guy yelled “What the hell did you call me?”, sped up to the front and slammed the door open. He was a huge big black guy …not that his color matters, but it kinda did. The one time Bill fucks up due to horsing around, it just had to be this giant guy. Bill thought quick and said he was calling me an idiot, not him. I thought we were about to be murdered.
Dang, I can’t believe Ho May Kitchen got an A on their health inspection. I just looked it up and it is real! Although the Daily News has an article about another Chinese take out posting a fake letter grade, this one is legit. Dang, Ho May! You did better than Cer te and Shake Shack UES.
Here’s the time I talked about going up to their bullet proof glass to order Sweet & Sour Chicken.
I’ve always been curious about this dirty looking Chinese take-out across from the projects and down the sketchy street from me. Todd said when you go in, you come out smelling like grease. Ho May means “good aroma” in Chinese. So I wanted to know what if this “good aroma” really smelled like grease.
I ordered the Sweet & Sour Chicken with Pork Fried Rice ($6) from the other side of the bullet proof glass. You have to stick your arm through the slot like a mouse maze to pay and get your food. Looking at the bullet proof glass, their specials are mozzarella sticks and Tang. The food was solid as any regular Chinese-American take-out goes. The chicken’s fried battered breading had a slight thin airy crunch to it. I was satisfied and stuffed.
I did end up smelling like Chinese food though. Sorta like how I could smell my parents all the way from my bed when they got home from work at their restaurant –like Chinese food. Like comfort.
Ho May Kitchen – 100 Woodpoint Road (@ Kingsland Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11211
