 Alright Dan, as a Korean, do you think this Shake Shack Gochujang Glazed Chicken Sandwich from Shake Shack can be the best Korean fried chicken sandwich in the world? I think so. Let's sign out. Alright everybody, I'm about to put in my order for four Korean chicken sandwiches from Shake Shack. Boom. Get excited. You're about to get shackin'. Alright you guys, we are looking for the BBQ chicken sandwiches right now. The only thing they have out are their Honey Garlic Wings and that's it. They have not wanted to buy the hot brew as much unless the BTS' face was on it so I might have to pop it. Alright this Korean fried chicken sandwich battle is about to go down. We're outside of Pelicana. We are here with our resident Korean Dan Chang. Yo, you just proved that any for everybody wrong. Dan, according to 23andMe is 99.9% Korean. So that makes you like one of the most Korean people I've ever met. I'm going to be comparing the sandwiches. We got a sandwich from Pelicana. We got the sandwich from Shake Shack. We got some BBQ chicken, Gochujang Spicy Fried Chicken. So man, I think we just got it determined. How does the Shake Shack hold up? Do we have any early predictions? Dan, we have two chains from Korea. Obviously one was the supermarket version, BBQ Chicken. You got Pelicana and of course you got Shake Shack. I think Pelicana is going to be one of the better ones because I'm not going to lie. I don't like the chicken to be super wet and like the traditional Korean fried chicken. So the Shake Shack Korean Fried Chicken Sandwich was actually a limited drop in Korea. It got really popular at the Shake Shack branches and then they just brought it over and it's here through what? April. I believe that the fried chicken sandwich wars were getting so heated in 2020 and into 2021 Shake Shack just had to make a big move. KFC Sandwich Wars. Let's go. Yo Dan, what does this say? This says Pelicana Chicken. Pelicana Chicken. And if you guys are curious to know if Shake Shack has the best Korean fried chicken sandwich in the game right now, make sure you hit that like button because that's really going to help us out. Let's go. Aren't you guys the Korean fried chicken KFC battle is going down? Alright first up, of course we got to do the newly arrived Shake Shack KFC Korean fried chicken sandwich. It's got slo, it's got the kimchi mayo, it's the chicken is glazed in the gochujang sauce. Is this the exact same recipe for the one that debuted and sold like maybe like four or five months ago? That's what I would be curious. I would be curious. I would think so. They like reinvented everything and like put mad ketchup in the gochujang. Oh you mean if they tweaked it for the American market? Yeah. I feel like it is. Yeah. Break it down. What are we looking at? Just take it out to the wrap. Guys you got your. We got the clamshell. Is that the clamshell bun? Clamshell bun of course. Classic potato bun right here. Super soft. You have your nice piece of chicken that you know it's probably just tossing it. This is also like the probably the same piece of chicken as the Shake Shack chicken shack. And then you have your coleslaw. You have a little bit of the kimchi mayo of course. Classic condiment. Man. I mean it has everything you need. Oh my God. You can smell every, every spice in there. And David here of course we had to try one protein style lettuce wrap. Shake Shack Korean Fried Chicken. Okay. The gochujang is like pretty light. It's not too spicy. All right man. It was tough because my chicken piece was a little bit dry. This is like a chicken shack with gochujang glaze on it. The spices were maybe even stronger than I thought. One layer or two layers deeper than I thought in terms of like how it's sort of just resonating in my mouth. I do feel like they catered this a bit to the American palate. I do feel the same. You think that this is probably different like slightly different recipe. I feel like this could definitely be like super strong when you get it. I'm going to give this a four out of five. Would I get this every day? I give it like a 3.5 out of five. Okay. So as a Korean you're not like yo if I go to Shake Shack I have to get this sandwich. I have to get the cream. No yeah. I'm going to get the burger. Wait is there any element that would feel like kind of stereotypical like if you walked up there and you're like can I get the Korean Bob? Alright man my rating I say Shake Shack brought a nice little kick but overall I give it a 3 out of 5. I wasn't super impressed. Me personally. You know it was good and solid but it didn't blow me away. Yeah thank you. Alright moving along the special limited Korean menu at Shake Shack we've got the Korean Shake Shack bites. Yeah the chicken bites right here. They're smaller pieces. They're fried in a similar vein but there is no gochujang glaze you're just going to dip this in the kimchi mayo right here. Kimchi mayo bites. I actually like those chicken bites better than the chicken in the chicken sandwich. I want to see this on like future Korean dishes with like some panchang on the side you know just dip this while you're eating food in the Korean. Dude you know what I think would have been fire is if the chicken patty from the soul burger was more fried and then had this sauce on along with the kimchi coleslaw. I think if these had the gochujang glaze I would get this over the sandwich. Aren't you guys our second competitor is Pelicana chicken. This is the original Korean fried chicken brand from Korea started in 1982. To have the Pelicana of course then we got to have some Korean drinks. Dan this is a lunar this is yuzu hard seltzer this is blowing up right now. Alright David this is a makgeolli I would say the makgeolli though for the people who have it it might be even their more favorite drink than soju. I actually have a Chinese beer which is a or a jasmine tea bowl. We are here looking at the spread at the Pelicana round. Dan you're saying that they're using chicken thigh. Yeah this is chicken thigh opposed to the chicken breast used at Shaksha. And I see maybe more of a gochujang or kimchi dust as opposed to a hard core gochujang sauce. Yeah so this one is a this one's glazed in the gochujang sauce not gochujang sauce but their house-made sauce. And then these are more battered into a bowl and then kind of tossed in. So it's a lot more dry like it lets the meat come out. So as you can see the glaze is kind of poured on it wasn't completely tossed in but you can see it dripping onto the bun right here. Pelicana with spicy sauce going head up with Shaksha let's go. Wow one started the fried chicken craze in Korea and one's uh you know the newcomer. Oh that is good my goodness I want to say there for sure is some gochujang in there but not a lot. The chicken piece is way bigger and it's thigh meat so it's juicier and it kind of has that irregular shape because it is a chicken thigh. Overall the chicken piece was way better. For me I'm gonna give that a 4.5. I would have to agree 4.5 out of 5. Bro you know I said the chicken sandwich 3.5 out of 5. This is a definitely 4.5 out of 5. Monster with cheese. Oh my do you see that chicken thigh? This thing is gigantic this is taller than an Air Force 1 midsole let's go. That's even better. I'm gonna just say it early hold up. The monster is even better than the one with spicy sauce. That's interesting yo. Oh my god man that was so good bro. I'm just gonna bust out the Uji matcha beard or something. Yo David is lit right now but not the chicken sandwiches. This is the original Pelikana chicken sandwich. Pelikana the original. Is the sandwiches kind of look the same visually but I would say yeah they all they they taste more different than you think. Pelikana southern style. You want to do it you want to put kimchi on the chicken sandwich. Oh kimchi chicken sandwich. A little bit more of those southern spices cayenne pepper. The kimchi almost makes it more comparable to the shake shack because the shake shack one has a kimchi slaw in it and you really need that fresh fermented sort of energy. Man actually. It was a monster the monster was the best especially if you put kimchi on the monster. If you put kimchi on the monster that would have been easily a 5.5 out of 5. My favorite pelikana sandwich is the spicy sauce one. I don't know if it was just the kimchi but that southern style is definitely my favorite. All right we are going to compare pelikana's chicken to bbq chicken. Now this is a battle because these are two chains from korea. One's more of a og you know really like the kfc of it. All and then bbq chicken might be like uh maybe like a Popeyes. Still pretty popular still international but just not as big. Pelikana chicken. So these are thigh bites there's no bones. Reminds me more almost of like a um Taiwanese popcorn chicken. That's like the immediately I've never had actually chicken thigh bites before. Next up we got the bbq chicken spicy boneless. Damn what's your opinion on bbq chicken. Every time I see this in H farm I'm always tempted to get a box. I feel like these are chicken tender pieces which is of the chicken tenderloin and maybe not the thigh. Bbq chicken. Tenderloins are the tenderest white meat of a chicken but you're right it might be a mix. This flavor is super good at bbq chicken. The sauce is rare. But we gotta dock them points because they didn't have sandwiches available today but had this flavor been on a sandwich you might be dealing with an all-star too. This is like the strongest tasting one I've had so far. It's very sweet and a lot more wet. Between the two this is pretty good. The bbq chicken was good man. Between these two because like we said bbq chicken automatically disqualified for not having sandwiches today. They might have to. On the boneless chicken bites they take it. All right you guys that does it for our kfc Korean fried chicken battle. Of course we had shake shack bringing over the recipe from soul korea. We've got pelakana obviously being the og originally from soul korea and of course you got bbq chicken which is a little bit more of a newcomer with the olive oil. A lot of people are familiar with that because I think the bbq chicken expanded in america before pelakana did. All right you guys as you guys sip on the soju melona drinks here. What is your guys's you know final verdicts. We got to get out of pelakana to make sure that we're being unbiased. Okay first can I say what I appreciate about the shake shack sandwich. Yeah okay I appreciate that it was gochujang glaze. It did not taste exactly like other Korean fried chicken sauces that I've had. It was a little bit more traditional a little bit spicier. I think for such like a large chain like shake shack to kind of endorse Korean flavors and break that to the american palace very cool. Right and it's not just a new york or la thing it's like all the shake shacks around the country. This is nationwide through april this is not a shake shack brand new. I'm just letting you know the information in case you guys want to try it. The shake shack one was the most gastronomic the pelakana especially the monster was just the most tasty but then bbq chicken out of all of them it might have been the easiest to eat. Sandwich per sandwich the shake shack one is not the most delicious one but you should try it because it's different. The pelakana chicken sandwiches two or three out of four of them were delicious. They were good. The southern style here at pelakana that was that was crazy. And then putting kimchi on there they said they're bringing gochujang kimchi to some of their new burgers they should they really should. All right so Dan you're going with the southern style as your favorite sandwich out of all the ones we had today I'm going with the monster with cheese who especially if I had a little kimchi or a little kimchi aioli or mayo on that one. Yo all right so the shake shack chicken sandwich wasn't my favorite today but can I say something I think with the elements that it brought it is going to influence or at least push other chicken sandwiches to up their game. Because they kid did the kimchi slaw. Thank you everybody for watching that battle of the kfc sandwiches Korean fried chicken that is and I know that there was other brands that we couldn't include a lot of them are not all in New York or not super close to each other but shout out I'm so glad I got to try pelakana the og brand I'm so glad we got to try the new drop from shake shack. And check out Mark Lee and spot desserts man shout out to Mark. Yup shout out to Dan for being with us in the comments down below let us know what your favorite Korean fried chicken spot is and if you want to try the shake shack chicken sandwich also let us know if there's anything else in New York that we should check out. All right you guys let us know what you thought in the comment section below make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications until next time we out peace.