Another KFC at Home of the Hot Taste

Living in a neighborhood with a lot of Korean restaurants, we were glad to discover that there was another KFC to love—Korean Fried Chicken! I had read some good reviews about Home of Hot Taste, so we decided to check out how different this KFC was.

As it was the Home of Hot Taste, we had to try their Blazing Fire chicken, which also seemed to be the house specialty. For the girls, we ordered Original Crispy Chicken, since we did not think they could handle the 2-chili hot rating of the Blazing fire. We also ordered some Oyster Kimchi rice to round out our order.

We were served some salad and pickled turnips which were perfect to tone down the heat. I personally wouldn’t really call it Ban Chan as it didn’t seem quite complete, but anyway…

Our Blazing Fire chicken arrived on a hot plate—a good serving for about 2-3 people ($15.99 each order). Sweet and very spicy sauce generously covered boneless dark and white meat. Some roasted seaweed topped the dish. It was quite good—the meat was tender and juicy. The sauce had us asking for another pitcher of water!



The Oyster Kimchi rice was also good. The rice was well-cooked, neither soggy nor hard to the bite. I could hardly see any oysters, though. Also, the sauce of the Blazing Fire chicken drowned out any heat the kimchi rice might have had. (I would suggest white rice for the Blazing Fire chicken). I don’t think I would do the kimchi rice justice by describing it now.

What hubby and I did enjoy more was what we ordered for the kids—the Original Crispy chicken. Well, we came looking for KFC right? We got a half chicken. It was a bit on the pricey side at $8.99, especially when the pieces were not very big. However, the crispy skin won me over, so I will overlook that for now. The chicken is fried twice which makes it extra crispy, each bite having a crunch! The meat is tender and flavourful. We have realized that this fried chicken is definitely something we will be craving for—in the very near future! And while there is some salt-herb mix you can dip your chicken into, a good gravy would definitely work well! As we ate, the server was also busy making boxes in one of the tables—take out!!! Ahhhh…this gets better and better!

After our lunch, I decided to pop into one of the Korean grocery stores to look for that candy I tried at Piggy’s. And I found it! Sweet success! It is called—Nurungji, a toasted rice flavoured candy. Yum! I opened the pack the moment we got back into the car.