Another business trip, another night of eating out. This evening's choice - one of many restaurants specializing in Korean food in North York - Home of Hot Taste. Famous for their fried chicken and blazing fire chicken dishes, my colleague and I decided to tip toe are way up the ladder of spicy chicken and ordered half of an original fried chicken dish and half of a fried spicy chicken dish with some extra honey garlic sauce on the side for dipping. We'll leave blazing fire chicken till next time (and there WILL be a next time).
The waitress on staff was very helpful when we asked her about portioning and how much we should order. Our order came out fairly quickly with a couple standard ban chan dishes and let me tell you, this fried chicken is awesome. As fast the order came it was devoured even faster....in silence...with the occasional "wow this is really good" from two boys who looked like they hadn't been fed well...since lunch.
It happens often when you order fried food that there is almost an understanding that one of the following descriptions will be part of what will be served: heavy batter, bad quality meat, oily. In this case however the fried chicken served had a thin crispy batter, that was surprisingly light for something that's fried and had good quality meat - there was chicken breast pieces, drumsticks and chicken wings and the cooking was really on point. The chicken wasn't dry at all, it came out piping hot. The sauces were just as easy to complement as the chicken. The honey garlic sauce was full of flavor and did not go light on the garlic (which I love). The spicy sauce on the second order of chicken was really amazing. It's a slightly sweeter spicy sauce but does not overdo it on the sweetness. As the first initial taste of sweetness begins to fade say hello to a spicy pepper kick along with an aromatic blend of spices which I find really differentiates itself from a lot of generic spicy sauces you find on fried chicken that have a tendency to be more one note sweet or salty followed by a rush of hot spicy flavor.
All in all, would I go back? Yes, if I'm in the mood for fried chicken this is atop of my list when back in this city and hopefully I'll have the courage to try the blazing chicken.