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- On "Chicago's Best", we go big or we go home.
Bin Bin Lee told us we had to check out
Big Boss Spicy Fried Chicken
and when we called they questioned whether I could handle
the spice level.
Well I'm here today to tell you I ain't no chicken.
Unless it's really spicy
and then we'll leave really quickly.
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- I'll take the hot.
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- This is a first for me, I think.
Your Big Boss's number one fan.
- [Jake] Found a good fried chicken spot,
so you don't really let that go.
- Is it Big Boss Bruce Lee 1971?
- You wanna fight?
- Or is it Big Boss Metal Gear?
- Everyone's a boss when they come in here
cause they get some great fried chicken,
they get some great food.
(sighs)
- Damn it.
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Can you explain to people who have never been here
before what sets the chicken apart?
- For me, it's the breading, also the sauce.
The owners wanted incorporate a lot of their travels
and some of their other roots as well.
It's got some Nashville flavor to it,
and then also flavors from Belize.
It features seven different types of peppers,
ghost pepper being the hottest.
- Seven levels and layers of hell for me
to travel through today.
We've got to mention how cool this place is in here.
- The owners, Jasmine and Michelle,
they did some of the art in here.
They brought in some muralists,
some local people from the Bridgeport area as well
and I mean, the food, it's simple,
it's good, and it's for everyone.
Who doesn't like fried chicken?
- Whoever that person is, I don't wanna hang out with them.
Should we head to the kitchen?
- Let's do it.
- Go cook, All right.
In honor of my man Bruce, I'm gonna dub this
(laughs)
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- Let's go to the kitchen.
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- So we need some chicken.
- Dip it in the buttermilk and then we're gonna
let it sit for about thirty seconds.
- Into our flour mix?
- Yep, just kinda come up from the bottom
- Like we're in a sand pit.
- Two, three times yeah.
- Where's your little brother?
What happened to your little brother?
Jake!
If we were brothers
- Right.
- I'd bury you in the sand
- You, you'd bury me in the sand and just leave me there.
- and mom would be like screaming,
"What have you done to Jake?"
- The favorite son.
- Since when?
- Since the accident.
- What accident?
(loud crash)
(loud scream)
- Oh God!
- Dip it back in the buttermilk and then we wait
another thirty seconds.
You just dump it out onto the flour.
- I just had dejavu.
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- We fry it up for nine minutes.
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Throw it in here.
- All right, after you,
favorite son my
(beep).
- You say you wanted the Big Boss, right?
- Hot and spicy is the name of the game today,
my friend Jake.
- All right, let's do it. This is kinda like
the Big Boss sauce right here.
- I like the way you say it, Say it again.
- Big Boss sauce It's several different types
of peppers and it takes two days to make.
- Two days.
- It's got some ghost peppers in there.
- Seven levels of hell. Is this more heat?
- More heat. A little more flavor too.
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It's got that sweet --
- What does it matter? I'm not gonna be able to taste
anything after biting this.
- This is a part that's like the Nashville-Belize
mix --
- Gotcha.
- -- right now. Yeah. We'll toast our bun.
Yeah, perfect.
- I love me some slaw.
- Throw some onions on there, big boss.
Dribble (ding) some more sauce on there.
Spicy mayo and then some jalapenos.
(ding)
- Of course!
(ding) (ding)
The heat monster needs more heat.
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- On the Big Boss level for the chicken sandwich
it has the words "dangerously hot".
- You've been fairly warned.
- You can go for it and start. Can we acknowledge
it's just not just a small bit of chicken.
This chicken hangs out.
- You eat just like the bare chicken
before you get to the actual sandwich.
- It's like an appetizer to your entree.
It's two meals in one.
The chicken is absolutely outrageous.
It's so good.
Whoever put that formula together knows what they're doing.
What takes it to a totally different hemisphere
is that spice level.
It's a good burn.
- When you need that rib-stickin food,
this is the place to come.
- Comfort food that loves you,
but kicks you (beep) back.
Just like brothers growing up.
- Exactly.
- Here's to drinking down this milk.
And, by the way, they do serve milk here,
with the Big Boss, you're gonna need it.
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