Wagamama Hot Honey Fried Chicken with Yuzu

Wagamama hot honey fried chicken with yuzu glaze costs £9.90 and carries 786 kcal, the citrus door into the fried chicken trio on the big flavour bites page. Crunchy fried chicken in a hot honey glaze cut with yuzu, mixed pickles and a zesty vegan mayo on the side, the gentlest of the three glazes and the most distinctive.

Hot honey, the American import of chilli steeped honey, meets Japanese yuzu here and the pairing works better than geography suggests: the citrus lifts the honey's weight, the chilli hums underneath, and the fried crust carries all of it the way only proper double crunch chicken can. The pickles are load bearing, resetting the palate between pieces of what is genuinely rich food.

Trio arithmetic: this is the lightest of the three at 786 kcal, the mildest, and the one with the least sugar, though 32 g still deserves saying out loud. Protein lands a serious 36 g across the plate, sharing the page's crown, and the salt asks the usual fried glazed respect. All three glazes share one published price.

Asked how much is the hot honey fried chicken, £9.90 covers whichever glaze is chosen, so the decision is purely flavour: yuzu for citrus and relative calm, teriyaki for familiar sweet salt, firecracker for the fight. This plate is the connoisseur pick of the three, the one whose glaze nobody else on the high street is doing.

It eats as a light main with a side or splits as the table's shared indulgence, and it flatters lighter company, smashed cucumber, edamame, rather than competing glazes. The peach iced tea meets the honey; the kombucha argues with it pleasantly.