Koreatown Fried Chicken Faceoff: Mad for Chicken and Kyochon

Left, Mad for Chicken; right, Kyochon. [Photos: Chichi Wang] Korean fried chicken (KFC? Is that taken?) is, in theory, a perfect dish. As the unbreaded chicken pieces cook, their skin renders its fat and forms a thin, crispy shell...

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25 Comments | Posted by Aaron Mattis, August 2, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Tagged: fried chicken, Korean, Korean fried chicken, Koreatown, Kyochon, Mad for Chicken

Raising the Bar: Wings Gone Rogue at Mad for Chicken

[Photos: Tia Kim] Much has been written about Bon Chon, the first Korean fried chicken chain in the states that made Americans put down their KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) for a different KFC (Korean Fried Chicken). However, two of...

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7 Comments | Posted by Tia Kim, November 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: bars, Bon Chon Chicken, Flushing, fried chicken, Korean fried chicken, Mad for Chicken, Manhattan, midtown, Queens, Raising the Bar, wings