Wagamama Buldak Fire Wings

Wagamama buldak fire wings cost £10.50 and carry 780 kcal, the hottest plate the chain serves and the entry ticket to its Samyang collaboration. Fried wings in the spicy buldak sauce with crispy and spring onions and sesame seeds, and a warning built into the name: buldak translates as fire chicken.

The sauce is the point of the whole range. Samyang's buldak flavour built its reputation on instant noodles that people film themselves attempting, and the restaurant version keeps the character: sweet, smoky, garlicky, and hot in the sustained, building way that outlasts a first brave bite. On wings, with crisp skin and sticky glaze, it lands harder than it does over rice, which makes this plate the range's true test.

The number nobody expects sits in the protein column: 68.6 g, the highest figure on the entire wagamama menu, seafood ramen included. Wings are meat dense once the glaze stops distracting, and at 780 kcal the plate eats as a genuine meal for one brave person or the shareable dare it usually becomes. The sugar at 21 g is standard glaze arithmetic, and both buldak prices are published, no estimates.

The how much are the buldak wings answer, £10.50, undersells the experience economics: this is the cheapest of the two buldak dishes and the more concentrated of the pair, so heat tourists get the full event at the lower price.

Order the mayo topped bang bang cauliflower or plain edamame beside them for refuge, and take the peach iced tea over water without debate; sweetness manages capsaicin, dilution spreads it. Chilli chasers finishing these calmly have finished the menu; there is nothing hotter left in the building.