This is a chicken joint near my way that I hit up recently. They specialize in fried chicken and buldak, which is notorious for being one of the spiciest Korean dishes. I just came for the fried chicken. They specialize in PAN fried chicken here and they claim they use a fresh batch of oil for every bird they fry. Needless to say, I was definitely intrigued.
complimentary sides
They got a popcorn machine in the store so they give you buttered popcorn as the basic anju. That’s definitely a plus in my book. Moving on. They also give you this really Koreanized salad consisting of cabbage, greens, fruit cocktail, corn, cherry tomatoes, and Korean thousand island dressing, which is basically ketchup and mayo. Although I appreciate that they went above and beyond the typical shredded cabbage and kiwi dressing salad, I couldn’t get past that fake thousand island. Blech.
16,000 the sauce on the right got cut off
The chicken was really good. It was a bit oilier than your average Korean fried bird, but that’s what I liked about it. It tasted closer to the fried chicken you’d get in the states. The skin was really crispy and I liked how non-uniform it was in texture in that there were clumps of fried skin that had a harder crunch. This gave it a more homemade taste. The bird is seasoned just fine, but the sauce here is really noteworthy as well. It’s a lot less syrupy and definitely more watery than your average chicken sauce. It wasn’t too sweet either and it had some very nice hints of cinnamon in it.
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