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2016-04-10
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Korean fried chicken is definitely not new. But BBQ Chicken Premium is one of the newer restaurants in Hong Kong serving fried chicken, K-style. The difference is that this place originates from Seoul, Korea. The country that started it all. From the menu describing their place, it claims to have started this insanity. But I think it just brought the fried chicken craze to the mainstream audience. Also, upon reading the menu, they use olive oil to fry chicken, thus claiming to be more healthier
Since it's opening in Causeway Bay, there has always been a long queue. As I live near here, I noticed that the lines aren't long if you get there earlier. And that's exactly what we did as I wanted to try it.
Menu is in English, Korean and Chinese with plenty of photos. But what they basically serve is various different fried chicken, snacks, drinks and desserts.
Appetizers are offered: kimchi, pickled daikon and bean sprouts. These were ok though the daikon were oddly bland and not pickled. So, I'm wondering if these were not pickled after all or they just weren't pickled long enough?
Chicken Combo Set ($148). The interesting thing about this place is that you can order something called a chicken combo which includes three pieces of their regular golden olive oil chicken and five pieces of a sauce fried chicken of your choice for $148. Not a whole chicken so you can eat other items and still get to try two different chicken flavors at the same time. As this seemed good, we chose this and our sauce chicken was yuzu.
I liked the yuzu sauce on the chicken. It basically tasted like that yuzu syrup you buy from Korean stores to make yuzu drinks. That is exactly how it tasted like and I liked it. It was super sticky and sweet. The meat was also moist and tender.
The olive oil fried chicken I didn't like. Yes, the skin was crunchy and the meat was moist. But it also tasted like I was eating a mouthful of oil. It was just way too greasy tasting.
Mari Combo Set ($98). I love mari. For some reason, I can eat a lot of these. As we couldn't decide on what type of mari to order, we chose the combo set. This included 8 crab mari, 8 kimchi mari, 8 bulgogi mari and 8 fried shrimp. It came with a spicy dipping sauce (which I really didn't dip because I'm not much of a dipping sauce person) and Doritos. I don't know what the chips were for but oh well...love Doritos, so can't complain. The rice was moist and sticky. Favorite flavor was bulgogi. The fried shrimp was a bit soggy. I guess the Japanese do a better job of that one. Crab was actually imitation crab meat. Kimchi was not spicy at all. I found that a bit odd.
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It came with coffee and condensed milk which you are supposed to pour on top, reveal a ball of ice cream underneath.
So, what you basicallly got was vanilla ice cream covered with coffee and condensed milk and crystallized sticky cotton candy to pick apart with. It was ok and definitely just an ooh fun moment. But it was way too sweet from the cotton candy and it was really just ok and not worth a repeat order.
We ordered a number of drinks but boyfriend ordered this. A ice purple potato coffee that cost $38. Drinks all came in this fat cup so they were fairly large in size. The purple potato made the coffee very thick and creamy. It had the texture of a smoothie. There wasn't much potato flavor but it wasn't too sweet.
I can see why this place is popular as it's location is quite good. It's on street level and definitely geared for the mainstream audience who want fried chicken and don't know how to go to the really niche places. I noticed they have lunch and afternoon tea sets that are reasonably priced so perhaps would return when I'm looking for something to eat and don't want to go to my usual places.
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