Loving @walkingonsunshine.cafe yangnyeom sauce fried chicken ($23.50 before GST) was red. Or was it rad? I don’t remember. But yes, their fried chicken with yangnyeom sauce was a beauty. Random fact of the day: yangnyeom is simply Korean for ‘seasoned’. Seasoned sauce chicken? Eh, if it works it works, y’know what I mean?
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While @walkingonsunshine.cafe fried chicken was a red hot beauty, beauty is only skin deep. Unfortunately so. The sauce was mildly spicy, sticky, sweet and oh-so-sapid in all the right proportions, and the skin was beautifully blistered & charmingly crispy. It’s just that the meat beneath was overcooked and dry.⠀
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The red flags started going up as I bit into the meat from the thigh cut and found myself with a mouthful of dry, over fried poultry. If the thigh is overcooked, then it’s pretty much game over for the rest of the bird. It was such a shame too, as virtually everything else from the sauce to the skin to the sides were positively perfect. The pickled carrots & cucumber, as well as the pickled radish on the side, were the best supporting cast anyone could hope for.
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Fortunately the fix is easy: just fry the chicken about three to five minutes less. That’s it. That’s all that’s needed for perfect poultry. At $23.50 before GST for a whole fried bird, this gives you a princely return on your investment. Especially considering the neighbourhood, and all the other restaurants around. Once @walkingonsunshine.cafe has upped its chicken game, it’s gonna paint the town red.