Those who saw last week’s edition will have seen a big call – perhaps the best $5 meal in Logan City.
I went the early crow on the fish and chips at Beenleigh Bowls Club, and with good reason. It was a great contender.
Nevertheless, one of our readers this week issued a challenge to try out the Thursday night deal at Hyperdome’s Beach House Bar & Grill.
The deal: 10 chicken wings for $5 with a choice of honey soy, chilli, peri peri or garlic and parmesan sauce.
Personally, I find chicken wings a controversial choice. Americans are obsessed with them, but usually only if they’re broken conveniently into two bits – the drum and the middle. They don’t seem to want to touch the little bony bit at the end.
Asian cooking has been full of chicken wings for generations. There, they believe that the tastiest meat is near the bone, so it’s a delicacy. More and more Australians are developing a taste for chicken feet for the same reason.
So, I went into this whole 50 cent wing promotion a little cynical, thinking we’d be in for 10 American-style bits of chicken wing. Still not a bad deal, but not quite like getting the whole wing. We are, remember, throwing up contenders for the city’s best $5 meal.
Then, they arrive. Ten full-size wings with all three pieces of wing attached in chilli sauce for me, and 10 equally well-portioned wings in garlic and parmesan sauce for my dining buddy.
Some love a chicken wing when it’s drowning in sauce. My preference is a light sauce which marinades the chicken, allowing it to be picked up without too much dripping down the arms to the elbow. These wings were of that ilk.
Well done, beach house. Full of flavour, and full of substance.
They’ve also got retro cocktails for $10, and the normal menu if you want to add a side to the already generous serving of wings.
Plenty of people around us were ordering from the daily menu, but about 80% of tables had at least one plate of wings.
Beach House Bar & Grill is a busy, yet relaxing setting with bubbly service and clean decor.
Food service is at the bar, but you’ll have to pay separately for drinks.
Finally, this week a mia culpa. I wrote in last week’s article that you’d leave famished after the fish and chips. I did of course mean you wouldn’t leave famished.
So over the last two weeks, we’ve managed to eat out on a very skinny budget Mondays and Thursdays. If anyone has any other suggestions that might make the grade, please email them to media@mycitylogan.com.au.
I’ll take one for the team, and let everyone know how it all went.
For the sake of my own health, I’m discounting fast food for the time being. So no food chain burger meals for the time being, unless you’ve found me one of those wholesome works burgers you could once find at the corner store in the 1980s.
