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Bonchon chicken
6653 Little River Turnpike, #H, Annandale, VA, 703-750-1424, www.bonchon.com. Is it the best fried chicken I've had? I didn't even mind the forty-minute wait, though now I know to call ahead, as the Koreans do. Get it with both sauces - soy and garlic, and hot --and be sure to ask for the kimchi.
Here is the NYT on Korean fried chicken. It's also healthier than you think: crunchy, spicy, and non-greasy.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 7, 2007 at 03:17 PM in Food and Drink | Permalink
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/dining/07fried.html?ex=1328504400&en=69267e357f603cce&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
I couldn't open the NYT article, so I googled it.
Posted by: J. at Aug 7, 2007 3:28:26 PM
http://tinyurl.com/2cah4r
OK, a tinier link. :)
Posted by: J. at Aug 7, 2007 3:30:05 PM
The one fried chicken place we tried while in Korea provided very dry fare. Perhaps I ought to have sampled more extensively, but the opportunity costs were high indeed.
Posted by: Eric Crampton at Aug 7, 2007 7:58:58 PM
I would not say it is the best. Original KyoChon is better. But the best chicken is always one I get in Korean delivered by nearby fried chicken place. It is always timing. You get it when you really want it.
Posted by: S. at Aug 7, 2007 10:10:09 PM
Eric, why were the opportunity costs so high? I can't walk out my front door here without slamming into a "Chicken/Hof" restaurant... they're more common than PCbang, and you can't throw a rock without hitting one of those... maybe I'm missing something, or mistaking ubiquitous non-Korean-style fried chicken restaurants for what the article is talking about?
Posted by: Neal at Aug 8, 2007 12:56:29 AM
"It's also healthier than you think."
Healthy? It's dead.
Posted by: SheetWise at Aug 8, 2007 12:42:42 PM
Neal - we were there for about 2 weeks. That's about 28 full meals, plus some snacks. The more times we'd sample fried chicken, the fewer times we could point at something random on a menu and wait with excitement to see what would show up. Opportunity cost: the interesting meals forgone, not the cost of finding another chicken/hof. Thinking more on it, we had fried chicken twice. The one I remembered earlier was mediocre; the other, at a hof, was much nicer. But, the opportunity costs were still too high to sample further.
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