OK, Here we go..... I think it only fair to start with this photo as this trip to Tokyo, and the inspiration of these two guys with me in the photo, really kicked off my interest in exploring food, photographing said eats, and sharing/explaining my impressions of my experiences. So, to you David Chang and Anthony Bourdain, Cheers, and thanks. As I begin I think it only fair to explain a bit of what my purpose with this blog is. As you know, I do not participate in Facebook, and I wont go into why here, but I NEEDED a vehicle to communicate and connect with those in my life, both near and far. As the name implies, this will primarily be a blog about pizza. However, as this is mine, I will feel free to do and say as I damn well please, as it pleases me. So I hope to not offend or tiptoe too far over the line of appropriateness, but if I do, that's just too fucken bad. Enjoy. Pizza, food, life experiences, thoughts, feelings, rants, and more food. This is what you will find here. Please feel free to share and pass along to anyone you think might have an interest, as I hope you will as well. Sincerely yours, DVA

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Dave's Hot Chicken, East Houston Texas, USA

 



https://www.daveshotchicken.com/


Ahhhh, beautiful East Houston Texas, where the days are hot and so is the chicken (???)

We'll just see about that....

It's lunch time and we saw this spot the other day, and there's no way we weren't going to try it.  
After a few minutes of research I found out that this chain started in East Hollywood California, which brought my expectations down just a bit.  I'm not hating on East Hollywood, not at all, but I don't think it's known as the hot chicken capital of the world (right Nashville?!?!?)

Any-who, here we go




Yeah, looks killer

I also ordered a side of Mac-N-Cheese, and immediately wished that I hadn't

It tasted like a bowl of nacho cheese with macaroni mixed in (and I bet that's exactly what it is).  
I took 2 bites and covered it back up.  Not worth my time (or available space in my body, which after 5 days of being here in Texas, and eating like the locals,  feels more like 2 bodies than 1)




Back to the good schizzz

The sandwich consists of the chicken (you can get it any level spice you like, or none), kale slaw, pickles, and their "Dave sauce"...... no comment



It's really good

All of the flavors work GREAT together, so much so that you can't (or at least I couldn't) really single out any individual one.  It's like they are all playing the same tune.



The bread is soft on the outside and nicely toasted on the inside.

The slaw and pickles give crunch and some tang, but are not by any means overpowering.  

The chicken is moist, juicy, and the spice gives a great flavor.  

If there's any complaint, well not really complaint, more of an enhancement I could offer, would be that I'd want the chicken to have more crisp or crunch to it.  I know it's not an easy thing to achieve after you add a sauce to it (I believe the spicyness-ness is a sauce and not a dry add), but to me, to get this thing to the next level, would be to achieve some amount of crunch, if that's even possible.

Thanks Dave, great job, great sandwich! 
 
I hope that I have another opportunity over the next few days to see you again.

Gobble gobble gobble (that's what chickens say, right?)

DVA


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