[ValentineC]

> Best fried chicken has to be Korean fried chicken at this point.

Two things I don't like about Korean fried chicken:

- Some places don't seem to marinade the meat enough, so the tasty fried skin is met with bland white meat inside; and

- Many places consider the drumette and flats to be separate pieces, while Southern fried chicken places consider the entire wing as one piece.

[NikolaeVarius]

You first points is not a property of the food style, just bad cooking.

[ValentineC]

The bland meat seems to be endemic among Korean fried chicken places here (and I'm talking chain restaurants, which are supposed to be more consistent) — I'm not sure if it's the food style or cooking skill.

[dzhiurgis]

I've tried Korean fried chicken quite few times and I was disappointed. We even supposedly have quite a bit of good Korean restaurants here, but alas KFC or even air-fried frozen chicken always won me.

[Larrikin]

What city have you tried it in? Its relatively new in the US and it was becoming trendy so there are a lot of places that still do a pretty bad job since most people don't have a baseline. Its basically like sushi 15 years ago. So far in Chicago, I've only found one place that comes close to what I had in Tokyo's Koreatown (which admittedly isn't actually Korea)

[dzhiurgis]

Auckland, NZ. Plenty of good (and cheap btw) Korean food here. Just not fried chicken. Or Vietnamese.

[jordanthoms]

Have you tried the Almond Chicken at Pocha?

[dzhiurgis]

I remember going to place perhaps right next to it was being unimpressed for countless time. Might try soon!

Though whenever I'm in CBD I go to Boracay Garden - filipino food was my biggest discovery in NZ (admittedly it's only two same dishes - pork sisig and chicken adobo).