Fried Chicken Week

[Attjack]

It's nice living in a food-centric city. This week was Fried Chicken Week which wasn't even on my radar. I guess that's my excuse for only doing one restaurant.

Here's the website if you're curious about the offerings:

https://www.theactualportland.com/friedchickenlocations

I opted for the Boke Bowl fried chicken bao. I liked it, but expected more flavor. 6/10 for me, the other people I was with rated it a 7/10. The chicken itself was perfectly fried.





Here's their regular menu board. I have actually never eaten here outside of a food week. I definitely want to come try their regular fare sometime soon.

[mrteddyprincess]

Gotta love fried chicken!

[SheilaAnn]

I’m a sucker for good fried chicken!

[captainlee]

Yes, fried chicken is the best. If I eat it once a year I'm lucky, we just do our best to avoid fried foods, unfortunately.

[HawkerXP]

+1

[SheilaAnn]

New Year’s Day is the only day I make it at home.

[Bkhuna]

I hope you didn't eat Colin.

[Attjack]

The poor little bastard never had a chance. RIP, Collin.

[LA Pork Butt]

It looks great! Does this mean a different fried chicken place every day?

[Attjack]

It would have if I had my stuff together. But this one snuck up on my so I just did one token stop. Maybe next year I'll manage to rally.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

The bao looks a little over portioned for that chicken? Bao on it's own really doesn't have that much flavor and I wonder if they had used a smaller or thinner bun that more flavor might have shined? Cool concept though.

[Attjack]

You have a point. I also think more sauce would have bridged that gap too. I used their house sauce but it introduced a new flavor not really in life ne with the sandwich.

[STEbbq]

I do love fried chicken but I don’t think it could eat it every day for a week. Burgers, sure, fried chicken no.

I’ll review the link.

[dpearce]

I ended up eating fried chicken for lunch three days in a row last week. I love it, but it was getting a little weird by the third day.

[captainlee]

Ok, here is a method?????

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/TZQgBJWc6CU

[SheilaAnn]

What the what?!?!?

[Attjack]

I'm not seeing this as a technique I'm going to adopt. I don't think it would be fun to clean the wok afterwards.