 We all know Korean fried chicken has exploded in popularity over the past decade, but the fanciest and most expensive fried chicken restaurant in America is now Korean. Yeah, like this is a sort of like premium Kia Telluride version of like Korean fried chicken. Hope you guys enjoy. We got to talk about two different articles that went viral. One is about a brand new chicken spot that just opened up in New York City that is quite possibly the most expensive and fanciest fried chicken restaurant in America and quite possibly the world. We're talking about Kotodak. Kotodak opened up by the KOT team. You know they're known for the very well-known Korean barbecue that kind of like changed the game a little bit. Kind of knocked Korean barbecue up one notch. Right. So they're seeing if they can do the same thing to Korean fried chicken. This is kind of crazy. Not only that there's a new article that came out that said Korean fried chicken is actually the number one ranked K food outside of the USA. So kimchi still ranks as more associated with Korea. But you know and I know Andrew that Korean fried chicken because it is a Koreanized version of an American food it probably has more universal appeal than kimchi. Oh yeah fermented cabbage with gochujang in the ground dude. I hardly hear anybody turn down Korean fried chicken. Even if they know it's like Korean style they're just like it's fried chicken though. Let's try you're saying that you've seen multiple races where they wouldn't eat kimchi. Love Korean fried chicken. I mean I'm gonna be honest fried chicken is one of the most universal proteins tasty proteins in the entire world because guess what David there is not a race or religion or major religion that is barring from eating fried chicken like everybody can eat that's a good point. Yeah I can't speak for all religions I'm just saying depends on what oil it's cooked in. Well okay fine but you know what I mean like who's turning down fried or roasted chicken nobody. Hey guys make sure you like subscribe and turn your notifications right now but you know what else would taste delicious on Korean fried chicken especially if it was the plain style. Not just Korean fried chicken this goes well on every fried chicken you drizzle a little bit of small ass sauce and it lights it up all right. David so going off of I do you believe that to some people some generation that KFC to them means Korean fried chicken and not Kentucky fried chicken. Oh no I think so. Do a younger generation for sure yes that's more growing up in maybe a coastal city. As we know I would say KFC even lost a lot of headroom to like Jollabies or Popeyes recently. Yeah yeah definitely because at one point I believe KFC was really the only fried chicken chain in America that was like hyper multinational. Dave you want to give a shout out to all these fried chicken Korean fried chicken chains real quick I mean there's a lot of them. Yes yes yes yes we got to talk about it because Andrew some of these dishes have yet to make it to America. Wow. Andrew leading off we've got BBQ chicken famous for golden olive fried style chicken it is a little bit more western but it tastes like olive oil. It's pretty good. It's good. This is good. It's been around. Specifically the golden olive fried chicken at BBQ chicken. You can get this in America. BHC chicken I believe it is a chain Andrew if correct me if I'm wrong that has yet to enter the US market. It's known for trying a bunch of different powders seaweed powder curry powders on the chicken. Do you agree with me that the powdered flavors have yet to really take a grip in America. Yeah yeah yeah I think the whole powdered flavors is not getting too crazy but I will tell you this man I just tried some Korean fried chicken like popcorn chicken Korean popcorn chicken that you dip and this is trendy in Korea you dip in cream or you dip in sweet grape syrup grape syrup or you dip in blueberry syrup and stuff like this almost like chicken and waffles minus the waffles. Yeah these type of things are popular in Korea somewhere I'm not saying they're going to take off in America the same way but I got it at a Korean stall in Queens. So I got something interesting for you BHC Andrew in Seoul Korea is also known for doing bubble sausage. Bubble sausage is the grilled tapoki and then there is a smoky link and then a grilled tapoki and then a smoky link and they actually serve that that started to come to the US. Yeah I'm not a fan of that honestly I just I'm not a fan of fried tapoki personally but sure it'll be interesting to see how much of the sides can make it over or will it kind of just stay soy garlic gochujang and plain flavor. Moving on Andrew pelicana. Pelicana is a chain that is made it over to the US right I guess it lost favor in Korea but they were credited with inventing that soy garlic flavor originally. Guys pelicana very good and like we so good like we said guys all these chains have their thing that they're known for in Korea. Andrew next up nae nae chicken is known for a thing called padak chicken where they put a ton of green onions on top of boneless chicken and sometimes even put a special soy sauce on top of the green onions. For me of all the Korean fried chicken variations and derivatives Andrew this is my favorite. I'm gonna give the padak chicken a 10 out of 10. You gotta give it the mashi so. I know that you you don't like it as much as me. Oh well we could talk about it we could talk about it. We may have differing tastes on fried chicken David we are not the same person. They're also known for their snowing chicken which is their version of a cheddar dust. Number five Andrew kyochon kyochon classic good classic known for really thin breading I guess that's what they're known for having the thinnest breading. Ultimately Andrew what are yours what is your feelings on the most basically the most expensive fried chicken in America is now Korean fried chicken well obviously I'm not talking in general I'm talking about one spot. So let me tell you this guys this is my hot and we're gonna pop up some photos right here to so people can understand what you're talking about. And I love a lot of Korean food but I think Korean fried chicken to me is not categorically better than American fried chicken like I think it just depends on how good the person's executing it. Now I will say this from the Korean fried chicken spots and I've had my fair share of cheap low-end like hood fried chicken like Kennedy like Kennedy's fried chicken crispy crunchy fried chicken I eat that but I'll say this you the quality of the the average quality of Korean fried chicken if you're cooking it I think is a little higher. I don't necessarily think I like it better I don't always want to eat it all the time I don't always want soy garlic flavor I don't always like that crust but I will say the average quality is better than like the average fried chicken spot. Now if you get fresh Popeyes fresh Popeyes versus fresh like a comparable Korean fried chicken I might take Popeyes over it maybe 70% of the time. Right like spicy Popeyes yeah spicy Popeyes or Jollabies I might take that over the Korean fried chicken because I prefer that style. But I'll tell you this a Popeyes is not going to look like this no and it's not going to have nuggets with oh my gosh Caviar fish row on top guys I got to try this spot Coco Doc um there's a bucket list for 38 per person I'm not sure and that's not clear how many pieces of chicken you get for $38 but you get a bunch of sides and you get some frozen yogurt so you'll probably get a few pieces but it looks like you get a bucket but that's not for just one person but anyways it looks pretty good and they also have this uh chicken nugget with caviar now I actually heard from a lot of my chef friends for years that they were putting caviar on fried chicken nuggets now this is a thing that's been going on in the chef's circles but now they're serving it here at Coco Doc so I'm interested. Momofuku had caviar on fried chicken uh five six seven years ago. So one thing though David I got a question Coco Doc looks good but it is pricey you could probably drop easily 50 a person on fried chicken I would imagine the average tab let's just say it's 100 but I'm gonna get two drinks that's 22 a pop that's 44 but I'm gonna be real 38 I've seen people drop 50 a person at sweet chick which is a southern style fried chicken spot right it's not cheap that sweet chick's not cheap um but anyways do you think that I think that this spot's giving you a better deal than sweet chick yeah I do think so I think so I wonder if those chicken nuggets are better than fresh mcdonald's chicken nuggets man fresh mcdonald's nuggets fire okay so I think that this is where an interesting point comes in andrew where there's tastiness and then there's the quality I don't think you can argue that if they're getting these from the most expensive Amish chicken farms free range there these chickens are only being fed the best highest quality you know feed or whatever they feed them I'm saying that the quality in a way is undisputably better but it doesn't mean that you'll enjoy it more right yeah yeah I think that's with a lot of things that you pay a high amount for you can oftentimes people will say this I I get I'll say this a lot man I understand the quality is really good but I'm not enjoying this as much and the enjoyment also comes from other factors the ambiance to be honest the price I'm paying you know what I mean the freshness of food isn't it okay to charge $40 a person for fried chicken though because Andrew all shavall all these burgers every city in america every major city right that has mortons has a $50 burger yeah across america right now yeah why can't there be $50 fried chicken who said there can't be like I don't I don't know if it's worth every dollar but I'm gonna try it you know what I mean because like I want to know what this level of fried chicken is like they got it from the best farms upstate they probably marinated grinded in the best thing and blah it's fried to perfection and probably fried fresh you get all these sides they probably have thought out this whole like way that you order that you eat the food in you eat this and then you eat the chicken and you take a bite of the radish and then you eat the soft serve at the end they probably is a lot of thought that's gone into it we'll see how it does let us know what you guys think in the comments section below of the of the upscaling of comfort foods do you like it do not like it does it just come down a value proposition and if it delivers on that equation and I want to know what your guys's thoughts do you think Korean fried chicken at any point in America's history being it being known as Korean fried chicken not getting like changed you know the name as long as it's known as Korean fried chicken could it overtake the American fried chicken you know what I've noticed I've noticed that some non-Asians they don't even know that it's Korean that's good point they're just in there just ordering chicken no they just think they just know it's chicken you're right not everybody knows wow guys let us know what you think in the comment section I think the Koreans are sliding in there doc Korean fried chicken gonna make it is the snow chicken with the cheddar cheese and the garlic and the onion powder gonna make it or is it gonna stay the current you know binary you just got plain gochujang soy garlic guys let us know what you think in the comment section fun one real light topic until next time we the hot pot boys we out peace