(8.5)

Bobo’s Chicken

Bobo’s Chicken
Usually on 23rd Street between Lottie and MLK ???
Usually open from 7PM – 4AM on Friday and Saturdays

Bobo’s Chicken may be the most infamous eatery in OKC but although everyone seems to have heard of it, very few have actually had it.

For the uninitiated, Bobo’s is a concession trailer that can usually be found parked off 23rd street (see map above) and only opens late at night on Fridays and Saturdays. It is usually easy to spot as they put HUGE flood lights. There are underground rumors that others have seen it during lunch hours and at other locations but I for one have only seen it in this one place as early as 7 PM and as late as 4 AM. If anyone has a sighting please post it here!!

So why have so few people actually eaten from this place? Well, how do I put this delicately… Bobo’s is located in one of the highest crime areas in the city and attracts a sometimes mean looking crowd – depending on when you show up. After 2 AM this place can look like the set of a Tupoc Shakur video shoot. I have actually seen two midget Latino gangsta rappers get out of a low rider with hydraulics (I swear you can’t make this stuff up!!) Although I have never had any problems, I have felt threatened on occasion and have heard stories about shootings and the like. Personally, the air of adventure of going here is kind of fun (until I get jacked).

So why would you travel to one of the worst parts of the city in the middle of the night and brave being mugged, shot, etc.?? Great fried chicken of course!!!
They do a few things here I had never encountered before – first they smoke the chicken before breading and frying it. When you get this stiff in the car it actually smells like barbeque. Next, with every order they include some fried bread (ummm..), French fries with a spicy seasoning sprinkled on and if you want -they pour honey over the top it all. Now the thought of covering fried chicken and French fries with honey seemed wrong to me but as it turns out it is pure genius when it comes to this stuff. They also have catfish baskets (excellent) and shrimp (never tried it) – sans honey here I think.

Prices are good as well you can get a 7 piece wings-n-things chicken basket for 10 bucks and it will easily feed two.
Please post your Bobo’s stories and pics here as everyone I know that has eaten here usually have a good one. In the mean time do as they say and “Follow your nose to Bobo’s”.  Just be sure to watch your ass while you are doing it.

(10.0)

Bangkok Restaurant

7906 N Macarthur Blvd
Oklahoma City, OK 73132
(405) 728-4822

Open Hours:

Lunch:11a-2p Monday - Saturday
Dinner 5p-9p Monday - Saturday

I am really kicking my self in the ass for having lived within walking distance of this restaurant for over a year and never trying it. I would drive by every day and give the name a very immature chuckle, but that is as far as it went. In the last couple of months I decided I was going to try the place but my wife always said she wasn’t in the mood for Thai food. Finally I had her talked into it, but when we arrived it was closed (Make sure you note the hours above). I got a bit discouraged and waited a couple of weeks before heading up there again. A couple of weeks were way to long to wait and I can honestly say that I am glad I decided to give it another try.

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Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill

Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill Bricktown
310 Johnny Bench Drive
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
405.231.0254

I looked Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill up in a thesaurus and the results are located in the table below.

Main Entry:	Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Grill
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	horrible
Synonyms:	abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile
Antonyms:	great, wonderful

I should REALLY preface this post by stating that I vowed that I would go to my grave having never eaten at this place. Unfortunately we had some friends (who in my book are now ex-friends) come into town that had moved from Oklahoma during the erection of TKILTBAG and wanted to see what it was all about. I warned them that no good can come from this but they ignored me. I said we should at least put it to a vote knowing my wife would side with me. As you can probably guess the vote was 3-1 with my sellout wife casting the tie breaking (and heartbreaking) vote. Not wanting to make a big deal about having to eat there I threw a large fit and let them all know they were idiots. Having grown accustom to my fits and bitching they neither cared nor changed their minds.

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