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| - About a week ago, a coworker mentioned this great new chicken place on South Rainbow I had to try. He said it was supposedly some of the best chicken in Vegas and they have a cool Asian menu. When posed with the question, "how about Popeye's," I jumped at the chance to mention Bonchon and it's crunchy chicken.
This location is on South Rainbow near Sunset in a plaza with other busy eateries. The decor is was modern and we were seated immediately. Although I was really tempted to try their Asian menu, we were looking for chicken, so we got chicken (popcorn chicken and strips) along with seasoned fries and onion rings. Everything was served as it finished, so it came out staggered, but we were ok with that. The onion rings came out first and they were nice and crunchy (the most important thing, in my opinion, to a great onion ring). Shortly after arrived the popcorn chicken, which was drizzled with a sweet molasses sauce. They were good, but the strips, which came a moment later, were the real stars here. We got 1/2 hot and 1/2 in a soy-garlic type sauce and they were really great. Nice crunchy batter, but not too much breading. The hot was really my favorite, with a sweet bite at first, leading to an intense heat. The seasoned fries were very good as well.
We will definitely be back to Bonchon. Their chicken was excellent, next time we will order some bone in and strips instead of the popcorn. Their Asian menu looked great as well, and as we saw the other table's food being delivered, we both agreed we would order their Korean fare in place of the fries and onion rings as accompaniments.
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