Located in the middle corner of a strip mall on Western in Koreatown is Chicken Day. A Korean style chicken place. Parking is strictly valet in the basement for a buck. Free if you can find street parking after hours. The place is spacious with indoor and patio seating. Several paintings on the wall with a common theme, chicken :). There is a counter on the right side when you go in, this is where we made our orders and proceeded to get seated to wait. There is a large flat screen TV on the wall playing Korean shows, some with English subtitles. The owner was the one who took our orders and served our food, she was very friendly, conversational and accomodating. Not afraid to speak English. Eventhough, I know it was a little difficult for her to do so. She gave us something in a plate, three, one for each of us, white and small which I thought were marshmallows. It was the wet towelettes for our hands :).
Chicken Day Salad $ 3.45, this is delicious, the sweet pineapple puree was a surprisingly good dressing. Very refreshing. It compliments the spicy chicken very well.
Special Spicy Sauce Chicken Boneless $ 14.90, this is a lot of chicken 22 pieces. Almost like Bufallo chicken, it is sweet and sour, very garlicky and a little spicy. I was expecting to get toasted on the spiciness level like in Kyochon and Bonchon but here it is quite mild. I wonder if you could ask them to up the spiciness level, maybe next time.
Fried Chicken Drumsticks $ 13.90, again, this is a lot of chicken, eventhough it is hard to scale with the picture. This is a huge plate with over 12 pieces of drumsticks stacked on. This is the one I liked best, cooked to perfection. Crispy light aromatic batter and falling off the bone meat inside. A damn good chicken, reminds me of Sunburst chicken growing up.
People have been comparing the chicken here with Kyochon and Bonchon, so here is my two cents. Kyochon and Bonchon to me are so similar in so many ways that even in the name they differ only by two letters. Both I think are really good chicken, crispy caramel glazed skin and spicy enough to make you cry... for more. At Kyochon and Bonchon, 20 pieces of drumsticks will set you back around $ 30. Their spicy and soy garlic chicken, are more expensive, but better than Chicken Day. Of the three Kyochon is my favorite.
In the simple fried chicken area, you can't really compare Chicken Day's to both places. I would however, compare it to Roscoe's or Honey Kettle chicken. Chicken Day hands down is the best.
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Another one of those things I've yet to try! Great photos and write-up! Must go before 2009...
Thanks HC!
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