Sunday, April 17, 2011

KFC or Korean Fried Chicken

Left to right: Hot Sun Baked Chicken, Baked Spicy Chicken, Pickled radish


For a closer look, on the box of Baked chicken is Kim Hyun Joon


KFC is not the Col. Sanders that we famously know but it stand for Korean fried chicken, or the Other KFC. Korean fried chicken is similar to Buffalo wings and I had my first taste of it in Seoul in 2010. My korean friend asked me if I like chicken and I said "Yes, I love chicken to the point I might grow chicken wings" (I don't know how I conversed this joke in Japanese-English). It was a little bit late so the store where my friend frequently buy her KFC was closed so we went to another store, which was Hot Sun. So glad that we went to this store since the endorser is Kim Hyun Joon of  the drama Boys Over Flowers. While she was ordering I fancy looking at Kim's advertisement posters (thinking that Hot Sun might be popular in Korea, as having Kim their endorser). My friend ask the store clerk to deliver the chicken at her place.


After 30 minutes or  more, the chicken delivery came. I was happy to see Kim's picture in the box and said to myself to I had to take a picture. The order was 1 box of  Hot Sun Baked chicken, 1 box of Hot Sun Baked Spicy Chicken, 1 container  box of pickled radish, and 1 500ml of Pepsi (yes not 1.5L, I assume Koreans are not soda fans, as we're going to share this with my friend's sister, hehehe).


Baked spicy chicken flavored in sweet spicy sauce or known in Korea as yangnyeom. Hot Sun boasts this variation of having full fresh vegetable flavor in thirty different kinds of natural seasonings. My best description of this is fried chicken with dukbokki (rice cake). While the Baked chicken is like our regular fried chicken but more flavorable. When I was eating I can't decide which one should I concentrate on eating because I both like it. The picked radish as Zemkichi said it helps in cleansing the palate when the taste feels a lit bit overwhelming.

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