Thursday 6 March 2014

Red Pepper Korean Fried Chicken

One of my favourite foods in the whole world would have to be fried chicken and the Koreans really know how to fry their chicken. I've tried a few places here and there, they usually offer just a few kinds like soy sauce, normal fried and chilli sauce chicken. So when I heard that this place, 'Red Pepper' does 10 different kinds of chicken I was like YES PLEASE! It's located inside the Strathfield Sports club which is a bit odd, the club itself is very small, with a bar at the end and a dining room filled with tables and chairs and that's about it. The chicken place is located at the back with the bar and you have to order and take a number. We got the boneless black sesame chicken and the 'Incredible' sauce chicken (I think simply because the name suggested it'd be incredible). Korean fried chicken is best accompanied with beer and sometimes Soju, they also give you pickled daikon (or horseradish) which cuts through the greasiness. So the 'Incredible' chicken came first, we really had high hopes for this 'incredible' chicken but in Jules' words - "This chicken is just credible". The sauce is nice and sticky,  a mix between soy and chilli sauce, the chicken itself is fried to the perfect crispiness though, soaked all that sauce up making it full of flavour. It also came with fried rice cakes which is a bonus! It was nice but maybe I just had too high of an expectation. The black sesame chicken did not disappoint one bit, the chicken (breast or thigh maybe?) pounded to a thin layer and coated with spices and black sesame fried to perfection, served with sweet mustard and sweet chilli sauce. The meat was really tender on the inside and the coating on the outside was super crunchy, the taste: incredible (They should've called this the 'incredible' chicken in my opinion). I can picture myself being a regular here now.


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