Welcome to NJ Takeout Stakeout. I'm Mel Ibarra and today we're
supporting local in Chatham, New Jersey. We're here at Namkeen
Hot Chicken, where they're popular for putting a Pakistani
twist on their Nashville hot chicken sandwich. When they
opened up back in the fall, people waited on line for hours
just to get a taste of their takeout. And now, it's our turn.
So let's go check it out.
Namkeen is different from other restaurants, because we have a
fusion of Nashville and Pakistani flavors here. We have
a high tolerance for taking high-geat level food, so it
works pretty good with the Nashville hot chicken. I'm
serving a fresh chicken and everything else is made fresh on
every day basis. We use a jalapeno cheddar in our Belgian
waffle and decided to throw a Nashville hot chicken inside it,
instead of using regular buns. And the flavor profile works
amazing. Dhamaka fries is also a twist to Pakistani flavors I
added with loaded fries. So I call dhamaka fries because it
means explosion in my language. And you have the flavors of
Tikka sauce, the masala fries, the coleslaw, pickles, and all
the flavors worked together amazingly. I really love to do
the cooking. And I really love the impression of people when
they eat my food. So to have my own restaurant was like, like
dream come true for me.
I'm so excited to try this. You know, I'm just gonna tear it
right open. Okay, so obviously we're gonna start with the
Clucking Waffle Sandwich. This is what I came for. Alright, so
what do we have here? We've got chicken, we've got spice. We've
got everything nice. So the first thing that I noticed when
I opened the container, is that you get this huge whiff of
jalapenos in the waffle. You could smell the spice. Let's dig
in. Oh my gosh. Look how good this looks. Once you take that
first bite, like you're hit with so many different strong
flavors. So let's start off with the waffle. It's not an ordinary
waffle. The waffle itself is a mix of sweet and savory. You
have the jalapenos, the cheddar cheese, mixing with the
sweetness of the waffle. It just all goes together so well. And
the waffle is crispy on the outside and so soft on the
inside. When they take the waffle out of the waffle
machine, they actually let it steam so that the moisture
escapes and that way you're left with a crispy waffle before you
take it home. Let me take another bite. The chicken is so
crispy on the outside and really juicy on the inside. I love it.
So how's the heat you could order the chicken at four
different heat levels. They have naked which obviously has no
spice on it. Then they have mild, medium and hot. I opted
for medium because I wanted some spice. There's definitely a kick
to it. Now the coleslaw is creamy, it's light it's tangy
and it cuts through the heat. Alright, so moving on, no hot
chicken sandwich is complete without a side so we have these
dhamaka fries.
Let's give it a
You have the spices from the hot chicken from the Tikka sauce.
But then the mint chutney and the cole slaw just cools down
your palate. So all these flavors are hitting you in
different directions but it all comes together in the end. And
he fries are so crispy. These fr es also just absorb all the sau
es so well. I'm really diggin t. Fries the limit. Our lo
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