‘Unlimited wings, fries and icecream’: Bufwin is an all-you-can-eat winner

If you thought the days of the ‘all-you-can-eat’ restaurant were over, think again. We’ve found this surprise package of an eatery just south of Brisbane.

Anooska Tucker-Evans

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February 16, 2023 - 11:30PM

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A ferris wheel of sides, all you can eat chicken wings and a 13-year-old waiter better than many twice his age – Korean eatery Bufwin in Underwood is quite the surprise package.

The family-run establishment in a shopping complex in Logan is just like the backstreet chicken and beer joints you find all throughout South Korea – simple and approachable with a minimal, slightly industrial fit-out, bright lights and staff who are only too happy to serve.

03/02/2023: QWeekend cafe - Bufwin, Underwood. medium chicken wings in garlic cheese, Korean Sweet Spicy and BBQ flavours the ferris wheel of sides Pic Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Our waiter for the night is the family’s 13-year-old son, who attends to tables with the proficiency, confidence and aptitude of a hospitality veteran. He recommends drinks, provides helpful serving suggestions, keeps an eye on guests to ensure they have everything they need and is a genuine superstar. While he’ll probably go on to become a doctor or entrepreneur with his arsenal of talent, hospitality could certainly do with more young workers of his calibre.

While I would return to Bufwin just to be served again by him, what seems to be drawing in the crowds to the small indoor-outdoor eatery is the all-you-can eat wings package.

Bufwin’s chicken wings. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen

For just $24.90 per adult and $13.90 per child (aged three-nine), guests can embark on a gluttonous feast worthy of King Henry VIII with unlimited chicken wings, fries, rice, fried rice cakes, ice cream and lemon iced tea for 90 minutes. It’s enough food to have you facing a fate similar to the king’s, but, unquestionably, terrific value.

For those with less of a hunger, there’s single bowls of wings in three sizes, plus rice and chicken bowls, four chicken burgers starting at $14.90 including fries, and a magnitude of sides.

The ferris wheel offering from Bufwin. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen

The latter can be ordered on their own, or much more excitingly, aboard a ferris wheel ($24.90), with everything from spring rolls to garlic bread riding like passengers in each of the five capsules. Most of it appears out of a packet and deep fried, but it’s the novelty factor and childlike joy it brings that you really order it for.

As for the wings, they come in 13 flavours with the same crispy-coated, fall-apart-tender chicken coming out of the deep fryer before being splashed with sauces ranging from honey soy to hot sauce and pink chilli mayo.

We order a medium serve ($12.90) with 12 pieces – four garlic cheese, four barbecue and four Korean sweet spicy. After a hard-fought battle, the latter jostles the barbecue off the top of the podium for first place, with the sticky red sauce on the right side of sweet, and the chilli content one that builds gradually becoming more addictive with every bite rather than
blow-your-brains-out hot.

The dumplings on offer at Bufwin. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen

Diners can do like the Koreans and accompany the finger-licking bites with a beer. Although there aren’t any Korean options available, there are stubbies of Sapporo, Great Northern and Corona at barely more than bottle shop prices, along with a couple of ciders and ready-to-drink spirits.

Kids and teetotallers can enjoy one of the house-made sodas that are also available as spiders topped with vanilla ice cream.

Bufwin is a fun place to dine, and if it’s volume at great prices you’re after, this place has it nailed.

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