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| - You know that old saying about movies, if you have a good story everything will take care of itself? Well, this is the food version of that story - you focus on unique and great food, using top quality ingredients, and you can be in the literal middle of nowhere and the people will come. Welcome Chicken + Donuts is a literal foodie field of dreams, run by a decidedly young group of entrepreneurial hipster folks that would blend in with the folks in Portland or Seattle but instead, are busy making great food near the airport car rental places on Buckeye Road.
They have a great selection of innovative and top quality donuts, and then they have amazing fried chicken, that you can get just fried or with several different types of Asian country inspired sauces (coated in those sauces so get plenty of napkins). I took my father and we tried both the Japanese BBQ style - a thick sauce and dusted with sesame seeds, and the Vietnamese herb style with the chicken coated in a sauce that is heavy on the fish sauce, but in a good way - pungent and salty, it reaches out and gives you a solid slap across your taste buds - nibble on the free cake doughnut (warm and fresh) that comes with it to help balance out the intensity of the sauce.
You also get one of several Asian country inspired side dishes - we got the cucumber salad which also helped to mellow out the overal food experience. If you sit on the inside, towards the front, is some history of the building and the location which helps to ground the business in some of the local history and culture.
As for costs - a one piece is $7.50, a thigh and a drumstick are $8 and those two pieces along with a breast are $10 - might as well go for the three piece kids and save a piece to gnaw on later, when you start missing this amazing food experience. Oh, if you want wings - 6 for $6 (and it is the full wing so well priced) or an even dozen for $11, get there early - I've heard those sell out before everything else.
Best bet for this place might be to send one person to pick up multiple orders and then bring them back to the homestead, and you can enjoy this messy and pungent mishmash of southern food culture and Asian flavors without any concerns on the level of messiness involved - or, if you want that crispy, crispy coating at its peak, do make a point to go down directly but either way should be equally delicious. Here is hoping they expand and open something like this near downtown Tempe but if not, I'm sure at least once a month I'll take the time to drive down for one of the more unique food experiences one can find as a native or on a trip to Phoenix.
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