Vietnamese Golden Chicken Wings

When I chose this recipe there were 3 reviews and all gave it 5 stars. I followed the recipe precisely because of the glowing reviews. Whoa! SALTY!! Nice flavors but soy sauce, fish sauce and salt? I will make it again, no tsp. salt and I will add 1 more tblsp. sugar and perhaps some heat. (Excuse me, I have to go check my blood pressure.).

this is the first time that i'm rating a recipe & i give it an A+! my family just loved it! thanks for sharing!

Easy to do, great to taste. I substituted chicken thighs for chicken wings & marinated them for about 3 hrs. Then I grilled them on the BBQ flat plate for a short time ( 2/3 minutes each side)and finished them off on the open char grill flame. Tender & Delicious!!

This is the best chicken wing recipe I have ever tasted. The layering of flavors is incredible!!!!

i liked this a lot. there's lots of complaints about this being too salty, but eh, i like salty foods. i did omit the salt, added red pepper flakes, and broiled this for the last few minutes to crisp it up

Easy and tasty. I put the wings under the broiler for a few minutes to make the wings a little more crispy. They were wonderful.

30 minutes wasnt' enough time to cook them. Took an hour for the crispy effect. But still good nonetheless.

Aromatic.. YuMMy!

Great flavor but felt a little greasy, a crispier finish from some direct heat would move this up to five stars.

This was fantastic! I added a little Sriracha to my marinade, then added an additional 10 minutes of cooking time at 450.

Made these for our Book Club this past week. It was a HUGE hit. I tweaked it a bit by using Low Sodium Soy Sauce since Fish Sauce tends to be salty anyway. I also added about 1 tbsl. of fresh chopped ginger. After cooking in the oven, I put it on broil to crisp them a bit, sprinkled them with chopped cilantro and they were amazing.

too slimy for my taste and I don't like the smell of fish sauce in the house- would only put up with it when making pad thai.

The chicken didn't come out like the one in the picture but it was still pretty good. But like everyone said its very salty even after I put in 2 scoops of sugar w. a laddle.

Very good... they were a hit. I had to cook them longer to get them a bit crispy, but excellent flavour.

do not add fish sauce

It turned out a bit too salty, so I had to add some sugar. I don't know why mines wasn't crispy, even though I followed the directions exactly.

waaaaay too salty!

Very tasty. I grilled these instead of baking which kept them from getting slimy as mentioned by a previous poster. I also cut the salt out and increased the number of cloves of garlic to 4. Also used lemon grass instead of lemon juice. Made these along side traditional hotwings and were a bit hit.

My daughter had to make a recipe as part of her book review project at school. We chose this one and it was a hit. The high-school kids loved as well as our own family. I have since made it for parties and it is a hit with our friends as well.

i got this cooking for our dinner tonight and we have made it before and it is always a fav. soooo very good. tysm for sharing this.

too salty!! even after i omitted the salt and reduced the soy sauce to half! would not make this again.

These wings were awesome ... Crispy and so full of flavor... Will definitely make for company.

I just made this yesterday for a party. They are very good. I did take the advice of another reviewer and add another 10 min to the cooking time (and increase the cooking temp for those last 10 min to 450 degrees). While they turned more golden and we're still very juicy they weren't crispy. Broiling them for a short time may do the trick for that. I made the recipe with ingredients, as is (except I did use low-sodium soy sauce since that was what I had on hand) and didn't think it was too salty. I did marinate it in a freezer bag for 24 hours flipping the bag every few hours. Great Asian flavor!

Super disappointing. No real flavor. Boring. Mild flavor in sauce. Really up the chili sauce amount for bl

I agree, extremely salty, if i make these again i will cut the salt wherever i can

These wings were the best that I have had or made. After reading a lot of the reviews I made several slight changes to the original recipe. I used low sodium soy sauce instead of the regular soy sauce. I omitted the teaspoon of salt and increased temperature to 425 degrees. I made two trays of the wings doubling the original recipe. Two teenagers and four adults were looking for more wings. This recipe is a keeper! Sammamish Guy

I didn't think that these had much of a flavor, but the flavor that was present wasn't very tasty. I just marinated them for about three hours though so maybe that was the reason. I didn't add extra salt and felt that they were salty enough. Won't make again.

Instead of wings, I use drumsticks and 1 whole onion sliced to line the pan and bake everything. The sauce is a little salty with soy sauce and fish sauce so I don't add the 1/2 t salt.

Overall the underlying flavor was good, but this chicken was WAY too salty. If you try this one OMIT the salt.

This was a bit too salty for my taste, even without adding the extra tsp of unnecessary salt. I actually used three large boneless chicken breasts, cut into 3-4 pieces each, instead of wings. I also added some pineapple chunks during the last 15 minutes of cooking, so the saltiness was cut with something sweet, but the result was still just okay. I doubt I'll be making this again.

fish sauce and soy sauce overpowered it with saltiness