The story of the mumbo sauce served at the Hamilton, as told by Clyde’s Restaurant Group corporate executive chef Brian Stickel: “When we opened the Hamilton, we were looking to do a different type of wing other than your typical hot-sauce-with-blue-cheese-dressing wing

We tried grilling, smoking, rubbing, and still were not satisfied

We had been open for two days without wings on the menu, and Tom Meyer and I were downstairs in the Hamilton Live watching an artist named Christylez Bacon

He went on a five-minute tangent talking about growing up in D

, mumbo sauce and how he didn’t feel like he was truly home until he sank his teeth into the sweet and spicy fried chicken concoction

” Stickel said he was familiar with chicken-and-mumbo — a late-night staple at Chinese restaurants in District — “but never really thought of it as a ‘D

‘ Maybe it was worth looking into

“We tinkered with the recipe and then served them to our kitchen staff

When they began arguing over the last few wings that were left, we knew we were onto something

” The sauce can be refrigerated in an airtight container for several months