Go Go Mumbo Wings Rice appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Wings, fried rice and mumbo sauce (carryout plate) · Washington DC
The DC carryout three-piece: fried wings, beef fried rice and a small cup of mumbo sauce in a stacked styrofoam clamshell, the closing-time order at every neighbourhood spot.
The DC carryout (pronounced "carry-out" as one word) is the city's defining late-night plate-format: a styrofoam clamshell holding fried chicken wings or chicken pieces, a generous mound of beef-and-egg fried rice, and a portion cup of mumbo sauce on top. The format spread from Chinese-American takeaway counters across the city, mainly in Black neighbourhoods east of the Anacostia and along Georgia Avenue, through the 1970s and 1980s. The carryout plate is intentionally engineered as a single $10-12 meal that holds heat, travels in a bag and absorbs alcohol; it appears in every go-go-era reference and in dozens of DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia) rap lyrics. Yum's, Wings-N-Things, Danny's Sub Shop and a hundred other carryouts run the format. The chicken should be deep-fried to order, the rice should be sticky, the mumbo sauce should be on top, never inside.
Where to eat in Washington DC:
- Henry's Soul Cafe
- Florida Avenue Grill
- Oohh's & Aahh's