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| - First day of soft opening! They don't have all their menu items ready yet, but they do have some. They seem to be a Chinese owned restaurant trying to do the Korean fried chicken/dakgalbi and cheese/toppoki route. The interior is rather nice. It's clean and chic and they've got some cute decorations like lamps shaped like chicks. Some of the menu (dalkgalbi/combo platters) is only in Chinese.
Supposedly, they have a 10% off deal, but you need to scan a QR code into Wechat and post something on their behalf first. The details are on the table, but they're all in Chinese as well.
They have these three very unusual items called hand pilaf. Basically, it's a bowl filled with rice and topped with things like kimchi, tuna, or caviar. Why a hand pilaf? Because apparently, there's some sort of allure in being given a glove so you can mix your rice by hand. Um...okay then. Or I could eliminate the waste of plastic gloves by mixing it with my spoon.
We ended up getting their white chicken ($12.99). They also have red chicken ($12.99) and black chicken ($15.99). There are no descriptions for any of these things, so it's a tad difficult to know what one is ordering. White chicken, based on the picture, was fried chicken tossed in grated white cheese. We received a basket of 10 wings, topped with a spoonful of grated white cheese, and a handful of fries on the side of the basket. If I order white chicken, I want my chicken to look white all around. The way they did it, all the wings on the bottom of the pile didn't have cheese. That being said, the wings were very juicy (just cooked) and crispy, but they could have been crispier still. The fries were very crispy. There were no condiments on the table, so we ended up having to ask for ketchup for our fries. It's a decent deal at $12.99. The whole thing left me rather thirsty, but thankfully, they had a jug of water with lemon slices on the table.
Service was decently friendly, but two things were a tad odd: 1) I asked for plates so we could share the food we ordered. They told me the plate was the saucer under my cup. 5 wing bones on that plate and there was no space left. 2) We asked if we could pay an up charge for sweet potato fries, which are on their menu. They declined. These aren't huge deals, but they were surprising, and not in a nice way.
I know the clientele they're aiming towards, and I know I'm not a part of that group. Still, I might consider coming again if I'm craving wings. I also want to try their toppoki, but we'll see if that ever happens.
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