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  • OK so I'm actually going to this restaurant because I'm still on this mission to find better or the same quality of Korean fried chicken that I had in NYC at Turntable. In reality every place I've gone to so far besides Turntable by definition could have been "Meh, I've had better" but the others here so far (My wife's homemade version, The Fry, K-Pocha) are all deserving of some sort of consolation respect for at least making something decent or better. I admit I had much higher hopes for Ajuker because the business name has chicken in their name! Jennifer K once said to me, "Good luck finding good KFC in TO". Well I'm not giving up yet because there is an entire city out there (and adjacent cities) who I'm sure have some respectable KFC out there but that I just haven't found it yet. Ajuker is sadly the lowest on the totem pole to date in my search for KFC like NYC's. I arrived at this business who had their OPEN sign lit up but when I went to pull the door open it was locked! I looked inside like a stalker with my hands to the side of my head to cover the glare to peek in to see if there was anybody there. This place has no sign for hours of business. Did I come here for nothing? I saw somebody inside sweeping the floor so I knocked on the door. I saw them coming over. She opened the door and I had asked if they were open and she said yes and let me inside. Now if you are open and you want customers I'd say open that dang door! Giving people the impression that you maybe closed is a good way to have people leave. Anyway I do get in so it's all good. I'm looking at the menu and instead of getting a cut up bird like my previous experiences and since I was by myself I decided to change up the parameters a bit. I had gone with a pound of wings and also asked if I could get them with soy. The wings were 15 bucks for a pound and an additional charge for the sauce. It seems a little pricey but I was anticipating they'd be great so no issues there. While I'm waiting I get what seems to be a Korean standard of a particular shaped clear plastic water carafe as well as rather generous bowl of that pickled radish or whatever that stuff is... honestly I eat it but I have no clue. They even gave me bowl of not so great popcorn too. The wings came and I my mouth was watering. I waited as they had to cool down as they came basically steaming hot. Eventually I helped myself and so sadly I was disappointed. The wings although they looked good were not as good as they looked. They were not as crispy probably not as fresh as they looked either. I really can't say why but they just didn't overwhelm or even satisfy. The taste seemed bland. While they were juicy it was almost as if they were too watery. The skin seemed to lose the crunch if they honestly even had any to begin with. Although they looked like they didn't have that much sauce on them because they really did not, they just didn't seem worthy of being 15 dollars. I can't say they were worthy of being 10 dollars or 8. The bottom line, the wings were not crispy or crunchy as I've come to expect even though I could see the thin layer of batter. The wings overall were too wet inside and out to the point that the bowl had a collection of juices at the bottom. By the time I got to the wings at the bottom of the bowl they were practically submerged in juice and obviously no crunch there. I was VERY disappointed in this meal I'm really sad to say. This place as I've said IMO at least ranks 3rd so far in restaurants in the Toronto area so far out of 3 places (K-Pocha, The Fry and Ajuker 3rd). I honestly cannot recommend this place nor do I really see a need to return as far as the chicken goes.
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