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Come fly away with Brandon Kida’s chicken wings
Chef Brandon Kida grew up in Southern California, seeing the spinning sign of Pioneer Chicken featuring a covered wagon. Fast food was a treat for a young Kida; the smell of fried food and the crunchy exterior of Pioneer was eye opening.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readChef Brandon Kida grew up in Southern California, seeing the spinning sign of Pioneer Chicken featuring a covered wagon. Fast food was a treat for a young Kida; the smell of fried food and the crunchy exterior of Pioneer was eye opening. He taps into those memories with his latest venture, Go Go Bird, which he refers to as an LA-style chicken. He draws on the Mexican influence of using fried chiles, combined with a Japanese marinade, and a Chinese chile oil with Sichuan peppercorns as a finishing touch.
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Chicken wings, takeout, pomelos, GMO pigs- 0:00Come fly away with Brandon Kida’s chicken wingsYou’re reading this
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The full episode
1 of 6Chicken wings, takeout, pomelos, GMO pigs- 0:00Come fly away with Brandon Kida’s chicken wingsYou’re reading this
- 9:50‘Selling food in the margins’: Embracing chaos in search of takeout
- 19:33Eating with purpose and escaping the pandemic reality across LA
- 29:03Celebrating Chinese New Year with pomelos
- 37:49Modifying pigs for transplants and preventing allergic reactions
- 47:32In the Weeds: Sharing a healthy Ethiopian lifestyle