Hot Star originated from a Taiwanese snackbar that became famous for it's fried chicken.
It's good... but for $10, I'd rather get myself a nice piece of Popeyes or visit Kanpai.
Hotstar's chicken is very crunchy and juicy, but that's because it's thin and it's mostly fried batter. Since the whole piece of chicken is compressed, there's not much chicken meat until you hit the middle of the chicken where there's also a lot of bones. People say it's a big piece... but of course it is. Imagine compressing a chicken so that it becomes a flat shape. Imagine how large that should be. Hotstar gets too much credit for being "large portioned". It really isn't when you think about it.
Flavour wise... it's not bad. We picked the pepper salt flavour. Reminded me of the Taiwanese salt flavour that is found in popcorn chicken. You can choose between pepper salt, spicy and seaweed.
The lineups at Hot Star can be confusing. There's two lines. One for pickup, and one for ordering. But since the place can get really busy, it's not really clear where each lineup begins.
Overall, I wouldn't come back. Once is enough just to say that I've tried it. For $10, there's much better snack options in the area and it wasn't really tasty enough for me to come back.
Can't recommend it.