bb.q Chicken Tysons — Restaurant in Tysons

I ordered cheesling wings and the wings of fire. The cheesling wings were great. The wings of fire were too heavily sauced, too sweet, and was less spicy than a Chick Fil-A sandwich. I wonder if they just put on the wrong sauce. Despite this, everything was fried perfectly and I’m looking forward to returning and trying other flavors. I hope some of the flavors they have in Korea, especially powdered ones like red dissolve, make their way to the menu here as well; this menu was pretty sauce-heavy.

Outside of the food, the dining experience is subpar. Firstly, this is a Korean Fried Chicken establishment that serves a menu where 90% of the chicken is sauced, yet doesn’t have napkins dispensers at each table and does not provide wet wipes. And secondly, while polite, the service isn’t very good. I was the only table at the restaurant, but wasn’t checked in on at all (or else I wouldn’t have had to go napkin hunting). The default tipping options on the payment machine start at 18% (should be 15%, especially for a place that offers barebones service) and you get to make your choice while the waiter stares at you, waiting to get the machine back. So if you hate that sort of awkward encounter, avoid coming here.

In conclusion: Perfectly fried chicken, decent flavors but very weak on the heat, unpolished dine-in experience, polite but...

I got a small order of wings (8) with the MaLa sauce and the bulgogi poutine. The poutine made it out first and it was massive! It's enough food for 2 people easy, and probably 4 if you're going to have anything else to eat with it. The fries in the poutine were great, very crispy, and I like the bulgogi topping. I wasn't as big a fan of the cheese. It was A LOT of cheese and it was very gooey, to the point of being a little difficult to eat.

The wings came out and they were also pretty good... large, meaty, crispy and very saucy. The MaLa sauce was decently spicy, not painful but definitely enough to let you know it has some real peppers. The crispiness of the wings held up reasonably well under the sauce even though there was a lot of it. I think if I hadn't eaten them quickly they might have started getting a little soggy by the end. The wings came with a small dish of pickled radish, which was a nice counterpoint to the richness of the wings.

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Was really excited to have bbq chicken open near me! We ordered for the first time at this specific location and was a bit disappointed by our order. We got whole chicken - half original and half spicy TO GO. I should have checked the order prior to going home but I didn’t of course. Once we got home, we noticed that the spicy chicken barely had any sauce, almost like it was made in a hurry but… when I picked up the chicken there were only two tables (one table was done eating too). We called to let the store know and the worker on the other line said something along the lines of “oh, I’m sorry. But how can I help you?” We’ve had this exact order at other locations and the spicy chicken never looked so “un-saucy” and sad before. All in all, we got it sorted out and I know this can happen sometimes. The original chicken flavor was as good as we remember so...