Gaz and I tried out a restaurant at the back of a Korean grocery store in Glen Waverley last week. We would never have picked out this particular store for harbouring a fried chicken cafe at the back if not for Urbanspoon.
It's a cozy place, with only about 30 seats.
It's boast to fame is it's twice fried chicken with Chickillia spices. From what I can gather, the Chickillia brand originated from Korea, and this is the first franchise in Melbourne / Australia. The owners' daughter was giving another customer the spill on the cafe and the brand, and the rest of us in the cafe listened quietly. There was a friendly family atmosphere in the place when she was talking.
We ordered an egg pot, kimchi pork stew and a small serve of Chickillia wings, spicy soy and garlic flavour.
The egg pot was steamed egg in stock topped with some slices of mushroom served in a clay pot. We enjoyed this dish very much. The egg was silky and slides well into the trap!
The kimchi pork stew ($24) came in a large clay pot and was heated throughout our dinner on a portable burner. There were thin slices of tofu, thin slices of pork belly, kimchi cabbage and chopped garlic in the soup. The size of the pot was big but disappointingly, it seemed to hold more soup than solid ingredients. There were probably about 20 thin slices of pork belly the height and width of two segments of my index finger and 1/6 square of a tofu block in the soup.
The plate of fried chicken arrived last on our table. This had been pre-empted earlier, as we were informed the chicken are made to order and the cooking process would take about 20 minutes. The chicken was fried with skin on without batter, was not greasy and was coated with Chikillia seasoning. The seasoning tasted good - sweet, spicy and salty on the chicken however I suspect it contained some MSG as I felt quite thirsty afterwards.
Naughty foods like fried chicken are usually delicious, but somehow the star dish of that night for me was the healthy egg pot.
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