bourbon chicken

hey you guys, longtime poster but 1st time reader so please be free, I am an asscosiate of the NAVMAN and he told me I needed to ask here about my first real love bourbon chicken, where I grew up in oklahoma city we have the best bourbon chicken and we can get the good stuff at like 3 different places, my favorite was from the stand at crossroads mall followed by golden corals unlimited!!!! and also the special at the Asian stand at quial springs mall, but also I never understand why an asian place serves something as american as bourbon chicken, so guys then when i was in college at south florida i worked at the forum in tampa GO LITHNING!!!!! i always ate at this really great place called grill station, for real guys theres is best bourbon chicken ever, for real i ate there every week and it was really good you guys and also guys I got to eat it at a really great place at dfw airport when visiting the wifes inlaws, my favorite meal in texas each time we used to visit, I used to get it when we get there and leave and scedule flights so i have time to eat it lol but they both passed away and with them went my bourbon chickens so i havent found any in chicago yet and went to the food mall at macys and other places like maxs well market or sometimg like that where a coworker told me to go becasue i told him it was always at malls but not many other spots but this place was outside it was windy and it only had tacos and other things i never heard or seen that didnt look like something youid find in a food court, so guys I even tried thinking about making it one time but then i thought no way im wasting my old crow reserve you guys, i mean how can i get more bourbon and chicken for less than the $6.99 the places at the malls charge lol + their has to be some secret to getting the peaces of chicken to be so good, i need to know where i need to go to get me some good old bourbon chicken you guys, for real guys i work in the city and live in south suburbs and will go anywhere even indiana if you have a spot but i prefer close to home becasue i do love to drink my old crow when i eat my bourbon chicken you guys, lol no im not making that up cant make something that good up and im not one of those somalian wine people who tells you what wines tastes good with what foods, bourbon chicken me please!!!! thanks you guys!!!!

willy e.

I really want to meet Nav Man and all his friends.

your in luck!!!! Get bourbon chix nect time you pay a parking ticket!!!!! Nom nom.

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The incoherent somewhat schizo post aside, I do know a food court place in a mall that serves some good bourbon chicken. It is Manchu Wok (another Asian place) at Lincolnwood Town Center on McCormick and Touhy. I actually haven't eaten from there in a few years but some time ago my husband and I always went for the bourbon chicken and it was good. Haven't really seen any other variation anywhere else.

Manchu Wok
Lincolnwood Town Center
3333 W Touhy
Lincolnwood, IL
(847) 677-4967

Willy Evans wrote:im not one of those somalian wine people who tells you what wines tastes good with what foods, bourbon chicken me please!!!! thanks you guys!!!! willy e.

Too easy, someone else take the bait--

HI,

Is the mall food court offered Bourbon chicken similar to what is being described?

Regards,

cito wrote:

Willy Evans wrote:im not one of those somalian wine people who tells you what wines tastes good with what foods, bourbon chicken me please!!!! thanks you guys!!!! willy e.

Too easy, someone else take the bait--

I wanted to but I refrained. Hard as it was.

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

Is the mall food court offered Bourbon chicken similar to what is being described?

Regards,

I haven't the slightest clue but that is what comes to my mind when I think of bourbon chicken.

I can't say I've ever seen bourbon chicken anywhere except a mall (or Thompson Center) food court.

I could ask some of my Somalian friends though...

From my memory Bourbon Chicken in malls is made from apple juice and no Bourbon is used.. A quick Google search confirms this by the amount of clone recipes for bourbon chicken available.

No need to go to a mall (unless you want to). Many of Chicago's finer ghetto Chinese establishments serve bourbon chicken. Sometimes you'll even have a choice of fried rice or French fries.

Rene G wrote:No need to go to a mall (unless you want to). Many of Chicago's finer ghetto Chinese establishments serve bourbon chicken. Sometimes you'll even have a choice of fried rice or French fries.

Rene G,

Have you ever had the mall variation of Bourbon Chicken? I am really curious about how one tasted over the other.

I have to admit to really liking the mall variation. I would always take the complimentary tasting AND order a full plate for myself. I was sad when Northbrook Court remodeled with the baby (bourbon chicken) being tossed with the bath water.

Regards,

hey guys, i guess thanks to those guys that gave replys so far, jeffv are you assuming that bc i am from okc and now live in south suburbs that i am a carefree soul who racks up parking tickets, payments owed and credit bills and also happens to cheer for white sox? well i do love the sox but your wrong bc i hate my tax dollars paying for others to spend on unpaid things of theres, im also a big thunder fan and cheer hard for the lighting and cowboys to but thank you for the clue unfortuneatly i dont think ill be giving any money to be given to others, deal machine sorry i cnat make it, sucks ugh, but go to barlycorns after brewers beat cubs tmw night lol!!!!!!, i wish i could go hang with the crew often, i love barlycorns but dont live near them and im married with a kid and a little older to, booooo!!!!!, and i didnt put any bourbon chicken on the poll as bait or i guess otherwise you guys would of bit it lol!!! i bet them swamp people on cable would use it and get them gators there to bite to!!! its that good i tell you, i love that show lol!!! kcmacjohnson where is lincolnswood, any chance its near lincolns park?? or losers filed where that happy team plays? lol!!! ill be near those places with my white sox when we go west later in year but i cant find toughy?!?!? do you know if they give out samples like the good places do?!!?!? or do i have to go to kentucky to stock up on my old crow which i would then drink while eating bourbon chicken galore lol!!!!, its gotta be so good you guys, that and justified make me want to go down there you guys, thanks again for the replys you guys, please if anyone knows let me no, i want to share with you all too some goodness we have got in the south suburbs and will do when time lets me but its fantasy baseball season and the wife and daughter hog the computer you guys, homework for the young one they say, ha we didnt even get that much homewrl in 7th grade back in the day, and all i see on links in bar for facebook and match lol!!!! bye guys

willy e.

And here I thought Faulkner was dead.

Willy Evans wrote: unfortuneatly i dont think ill be giving any money to be given to others

Hate to break it to you williamson, but the somalians have been funelling borbon chiken money to fund to theyre good for nothing couzins abroad for some time now. The asians too. Better to spend your hard erned $$$ at tacco bell so its stays in america.

Willy Evans wrote: deal machine sorry i cnat make it, sucks ugh, but go to barlycorns after brewers beat cubs tmw night lol!!!!!!, i wish i could go hang with the crew often, i love barlycorns but dont live near them and im married with a kid and a little older to, booooo!!!!!,
willy e.

LOL I love barleycornz! The ORIGINAL one on lincon? yea boy, shots all night! Girls too!!!

Seriously though, best first post ever...

I notice the NAVMAN has been quiet for several months.

PortPkPaul wrote:And here I thought Faulkner was dead.

How foolish of you to think that the OP was trying to emulate Faulkner. It is quite obvious that he, in fact, is blatantly attempting to write in the style of Salinger--- I could swear that Holden Caulfield uttered a similar diatribe.

Willy Evans wrote:kcmacjohnson where is lincolnswood, any chance its near lincolns park??

Not even close to Lincoln Park. Looks like you will have to break out a Chicago area map. Good thing I work in a library where there are atlases galore. Or Google maps and the phone number I provided above work just as well.

cito wrote:

PortPkPaul wrote:And here I thought Faulkner was dead.

How foolish of you to think that the OP was trying to emulate Faulkner. It is quite obvious that he, in fact, is blatantly attempting to write in the style of Salinger--- I could swear that Holden Caulfield uttered a similar diatribe.

I think Holden was definitely more witty.

A few years ago I came across a place in a vacant storefront in Palwaukee Plaza (the same shopping mall with The Dog Walk and Monica's Mexican Food and Pizza) that had a handwritten sign in the front window about Bourbon chicken. Going inside, the front half was completely barren. Halfway back there was a folding table set up with a couple of buffet server trays with rice in one and Bourbon Chicken in the other. The rest of store was vacant. I am not making this up! This was about 5 years ago so I'm not sure if they're still there, but Willie, it would be worth your while to check it out because you can be sure that if they only do Bourbon Chicken they must do it mmmm gooooood!

I was thinking of a certain character in The Sound and the Fury.

polster wrote:From my memory Bourbon Chicken in malls is made from apple juice and no Bourbon is used.. A quick Google search confirms this by the amount of clone recipes for bourbon chicken available.

I was mulling this over and I have to say I am kind of bummed. I mean I was never naive enough to think it was actual bourbon, but I never would have guessed apple juice.

I haven't been in a mall/near a food court in some time. BUT, I will say this, NEVER, EVER, will I pass a bourbon chicken stand/chinese food court option selling bourbon chicken and NOT think of this glorious post.

I thank you for this and am forever grateful.

Perhaps the apple juice carmelizes and contains an essence of bourbon, although the dish served in the Thompson Center food court, while sweet, doesn't taste like bourbon to me.

My favorite part:

Willy Evans wrote:hey you guys, longtime poster but 1st time reader

hey guys, wife and daughter are watching real housewives of mobsters from jersey shore or something show so im alowed back on until its over lol!!!!!, then me and wife get to watch new bourdane show when the kid goes to bed, ya mon!!!!!!, rene do you mean ghetto like a poor chinese area or ghetto like big shiny wheels and gunfire? if so whats a lady like you doing in those places? be careful!!!!!, i dont think ill be heading to any dangerous areas you guys, which i think are different from poor places so no im not ignorant, as long as you guys state doesnt allow me to conceal while everyone else does anyway, boohoo!!!!, actually were thinking of moving across statelines into indiana so i can carry my g26 + i hear from an asscociate that there is some good bourbon chicken at the mall to be had there mmm mmm mmm, if i could live near a place that has great bourbon chicken i might never eat the wifes cheesy tuna noodle casserole again and its really good you guys, im not sure why they would call it bourbon chicken if its made with apples but i admit guys i dont no it all, just most like the fact no way apples taste that good lol!!!!, bourbon chicken taste so great becasue bourbon is so good, tell me i am wrong?!??!!? it usually is in malls hey they gotta have something for the guys!! right men??!?! cathy i would still eat the bourbon chicken even if it was tossed and cleaned with paula deens used bath water lol!!!!!, habibi yes i think its lincolns that its on did you used to go? i liked it there back in the day, maybe we crossed paths and here we are now, that would be cool!!! but i dont get to go down there too often now, my pops told me marriage was going to be a female dog, but i never did listen lol!!!!!, he told me i was going to pay and he wasnt lying lol!!!! i like taco johns and sonic much more than taco hell and crappy donalds and the heartburn each gives me with but of course there are none of those here, the chicken usually is in malls so there has to be malls here right you guys? i mean thats always been the only reason i will go with wife and kid when they go shopping, they think bourbon chicken is gross though, they love sabarros which i say is good but not great like my chicken is, but they also dont like mr beefs so i say to hell with them lol!!!!!!, if not nowhere closer i guess i can try the usual and ditch the wife and kid on saturday and go try this lincolnwoods place version of it when time lets me, hey guys who are these guys who may or may not be dead that write who i might be?!?!?!? im not a writer just a dude who loves good food like you so lets figure out wear were gonna get me my bourbon chicken please, thanks again you guys!!!!!

willy e.

I'm thinking James Joyce.

I'm almost certain Faulkner, Salinger, and Joyce all used paragraphs. Beckett too.

Buddy

Entertaining posts aside, what the heck is bourbon chicken? I do not think I have ever seen it around here. Is it like the orange chicken they have at Panda Express?

The Chinese-owned-and-operated "Cajun food" counter in the Ogilvie Transportation Center food court (between Canal, Madison, Clinton, and Washington) had some killer bourbon chicken. Their meatloaf wasn't terrible either.

I always thought the "bourbon" was a reference to "Bourbon Street", probably because my first exposure to this particular dish was at various "Cajun food" counters found in a handful of the Loop's various food courts.

Khaopaat wrote:The Chinese-owned-and-operated "Cajun food" counter in the Ogilvie Transportation Center food court (between Canal, Madison, Clinton, and Washington) had some killer bourbon chicken. Their meatloaf wasn't terrible either.

I always thought the "bourbon" was a reference to "Bourbon Street", probably because my first exposure to this particular dish was at various "Cajun food" counters found in a handful of the Loop's various food courts.

Hi,

I agree there was always a suggestion this was related to New Orleans. If an homage to a street rather than a liquor (although all have their name origins from the dynasty), then the absence of bourbon (the liquor) is understandable.

It appears Gurnee Mills mall has Cajun & Grill (Lake County Fare Food Court).

Regards,

I think bourbon chicken tastes almost exactly the same as that chicken teriyaki sold in food courts. The booths for that had names like "Sakkio" and "Sarko." With both kinds I would have guessed brown sugar to be a main ingredient. Maybe there's a reference to "Brown Sugar" by the Stones?

They both do have kind of a crack cocaine-like quality. I used to accept any and all samples on toothpicks; they are wonderfully crispy.