If you can do spicy, the Prinkle also comes in a spicy cheese option.Īnd if you thought that BHC was only good at making chicken, try ordering their Prink-Cheeseballs (뿌링 치즈볼) on the side which are as popular as the chicken. The Prinkle has been in constant popularity in the Korean food industry for its addictive cheesy powder and sauce, while the Macho King is the perfect combination of sweet, savory, and spicy with its soy-based sauce and hot peppers. If you are ordering from BHC, we recommend trying the Prinkle or Macho King. They pioneered several different flavors of chicken, such as “Curry Queen”, which has a unique curry seasoning, “ Chireka” with a flavorful garlic scent, “Boombastic” which mixed Korean spicy red chili paste with BBQ sauce, and most famously: the “ Prinkle” (뿌링클) and “ Macho King” (맛초킹). Sign up for Shuttle using 10 Mag’s link and get 4,000 won off your first order.īHC first started in 1997 and is known for making innovative and successful recipes. Warning! This article might make you hungry. Read below for the most popular Korean chicken joints and what to order! Recently, there have been many mukbangs (online broadcasts focused on eating) where Youtubers and other video content producers eat newer and innovative recipes like “ Prinkle ”, “ Snow Wings”, and more. There are so many innovative flavors and ways of cooking chicken that all are too hard to refuse. One thing is for sure: Korean fried chicken is not your average Kentucky Fried Chicken. If you want to know more about the history of Korean fried chicken, check out “ A Brief History of Korean Fried Chicken.” Moreover, Korea has its own common expression for one way of eating fried chicken called “ chimaek,” to describe the delicious harmony of eating fried chicken (chi) and beer (maekju). KB Financial Group Economic Institute reports that there are around 87,000 chicken stores in Korea as of February 2019, while Subway has 43,000 and McDonalds 37,000 worldwide.
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In fact, the popularity of Korean chicken is so widespread that fried chicken shops outnumber Subway and McDonald’s stores worldwide. The restaurant doesn’t like anything special from the inside and the inside blasts Korean Pop songs from the early 2010s including many I loved while studying abroad at Yonsei University.Fried chicken, commonly known as just “chicken” in South Korea, is one of the most popular dishes in the country. OBTown or Oriental BBQ Town in Oakland, California serves some of the most authentic Korean fried chicken that I have enjoyed since leaving South Korea. Luckily, there are options inside the San Francisco Bay Area that can be enjoyed. Craft beer’s growing popularity in Seoul has also brought new pubs that are pairing the beers with specialty chicken such as Brew 3.15 Korean Fried Chicken and Craft Beer by popular Seoul Eats blogger Daniel Gray. It doesn’t surprise me though.Ĭhicken and beer restaurants are some of the hottest concepts in Seoul and charge premium prices for quality chicken, pickled radish, potato wedges, and beer. Boy are they missing out.Įxample: Korean fried chicken (KFC) chain Bonchon is quickly eclipsing Kentucky Fried Chicken (insert irony), but even Bonchon can’t compare to the local friend chicken establishments. When you tell a fellow American that you lived abroad in Seoul, South Korea they usually ask a few questions about kimchi, bulgogi, and bibimbap and whether you visited North Korea or ate dog…but most people in the United States are comfortably unaware that some of the best fried chicken in the world is made in South Korea.