Consider more sugar?
Made this last night. Generally speaking, most Milk Street recipes do not disappoint, although these did not go over as well as I would have hoped. Personally, I am wondering if the sugar should be increased to 1/2 cup instead of 1/4 cup (which would make it more of a simply syrup with the lime juice and fish sauce). As is, even though the mixture boiled down to syrupy consistency and coated the chicken well, the final product was too lime-forward and sour, not the salt-sweet-sour balance I was expecting. Adding more sugar upfront or adding equal parts sugar and honey might alleviate this issue. Texture-wise, the wings were fine; it’s amazing such a small amount of potato starch works well for coating. Just flavor-wise, these were disappointing.
