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The Hot Chicken Project

Eye-watering Nashville-style chicken on Little Malop Street.

Emily Holgate
Emily Holgate

Spicy fried chicken at Hot Chicken Project.
1 / 3Spicy fried chicken at Hot Chicken Project.Supplied
A deep-fried feast.
2 / 3A deep-fried feast.Supplied
Inside the Little Mallop Street restaurant.
3 / 3Inside the Little Mallop Street restaurant.Supplied

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Founded by award-winning chef Aaron Turner (of hatted Geelong restaurants Songbird Thai BBQ and Tacos y Liquor), the Hot Chicken Project brings spicy, Nashville-style fried chicken to Geelong’s Little Malop Street restaurant precinct.

Choose from juicy tenders, wings or drumsticks plus a selection of burgers and sides including hulking mac and cheese croquettes, fried okra and various salads. All chicken is coated in signature spices at a heat level of your choosing, ranging from Southern (mild) to Evil (eye-watering, sweat-inducing spicy – proceed with caution). For the vegetarians, mammoth deep-fried halloumi burgers are the next best thing.

Wash it all down with a pint of craft beer from a selection of taps including a rotating guest sour.

Emily HolgateEmily HolgateEmily is the Assistant Producer for the Good Food App at The Age. She previously wrote for the likes of Broadsheet and Urban List.Connect via email.

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