Had a massive craving for Korean fried chicken today so Ronsee and I went to try out The Fry, which is supposedly "the best Korean fried chicken in town." We ordered half and half of the original fried chicken and the soy garlic, as well as the garlic butter fries. All orders come with a platter of pickled radish cubes, cabbage salad, and coleslaw, and a hot plate of creamy corn. The chicken here was good with a decent amount of flavour and nice crispy skin that wasn't too breaded or greasy, but some of the white chicken pieces did seem a little on the dry side. The big disappointment actually came in the form of their garlic butter fries, which aren't actually made with garlic butter but with garlic powder, so the flavour itself is very sweet and artificial, almost like icing sugar. They kind of tasted like an old funnel cake that was fried in bad oil and sat out for too long. Now, if you wanted something sweet, it might be something to try, but all in all, the garlic butter fries are a big fail for me.
If I was craving Korean fried chicken in Richmond Hill, I would come back again (I've heard good things about the green onion chicken), but there's definitely better elsewhere and it doesn't compare to my favourite Mr. Chimaek, which has become my go-to spot. (This is the difference between Korean-owned and Chinese-owned KFC places. Authenticity makes a huge difference.) Service is also very slow because there's only one server working there. However, they had played several BTS songs (including "Trivia: Seesaw," "Trivia: Just Dance," and "DNA"!) amongst a bunch of other K-pop songs while we were there, and when the server came to our table to check up on us, I told her I appreciated that they were playing BTS. And so she turned up the volume when "IDOL" came on a couple minutes later. I thought that was super cute.
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