I like Frenchy’s the best. KFC, Popeyes, Churches all good, just depends on my mood. the worst is Bush’s still haven’t had Gus’s or Lucy’s curious about but never had Brown’s, Williams, or Jollibees. Bojangles is underrated and their biscuits are amazing. Maryland is a fried chicken hotbed. Not many out west know that. Frank Purdue chicken farms are on the eastern shore. I could list a few spots in that state that are as good or better than frenchy’s. Also, Roy Rogers had great fried chicken. It was called Pappy Parker’s recipe. Roy’s was awesome. Miss it.
Best fried chicken I have EVER had was from a tiny place on the Southside of Chicago that was financed by the mob. It was a gambling place with gaming machines and had buses take seniors and poor people to play slots (legal in Chicago)… they started making fried chicken to keep people playing longer and to keep the cops away…. 5 years ago they would sell you a 25 piece for $35… I loved that place and would get it for my son and his friends every weekend. The place became very popular and eventually they couldn’t keep up with orders… too much attention so the place caught on fire one day out of the blue. The cop I know from nearby said the mob was pissed at the attention so they burned the place down and got their money back….. I still get pissed thinking about that chicken… by far the best fried chicken I have had, probably the best meat based food I have had and I have been to $1000 a plate restaurants before…. The recipe was from a 6’8” trans woman from inner city Chicago that cooked all of it… I would pay her $100 for a 3 piece now if I could find her. The place was called Chicago Fish and Chicken…
There's a "New Orleans Restaurant" here in MF, they all relocated (literally all, the whole church) after Katrina. Originally they had a cook//chef who weighed about 350 lbs, and you knew he knew how to fry some spicy chicken. Dipping fresh fried chicken in a cup of gumbo instead of gravy is something everyone should try once. Then he was gone. That was a sad day, place hasn't been the same since
Best fried chicken I had was in Phuket Thailand. This was in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami and ran into a local with a portable stand frying up chicken and selling beer in the wreckage of a resort town. The chicken was scrawny and very different from the plump American chicken but the flavor was amazing. I think a lot of it had to do with that it was fried in coconut oil and the breading was spiced. Never had fried chicken with the same flavor anywhere else.
When I was in NOLA working on recovery after Katrina I got to meet Willie Mae at her restaurant Willie Mae’s Scotch House. This was the first time she had been back since Katrina and the restaurant was badly damaged. Unfortunately I never got to try her fried chicken as didn’t make it back to NOLA after the restaurant reopened. She passed away in 2015 and the restaurant burned down last year. One of my big regrets.
The thing is that Everyone Loves fried chicken, spices are a bit different Asians, Africans, Euros, Polynesians, Americans, etc...
Yep. I think chicken is the one meat that there isn’t a religious prescription against eating. So any culture that has chicken has a fried chicken recipe.
I don't eat fried chicken much anymore but for me it's Popeye's. Frenchy's has been meh since they moved out the original spot. KFC original is also pretty good.
I don't recall ever eating KFC chicken that I thought was any good. I've eaten it 4 times and 3 different KFC's and ... no bueno. Always too dang salty with not much flavor. Then I tried their Nashville Hot chicken which was pathetic.
Bonchon is freakin amazing. Wish they would put one on the north side so I don't have to plan meetings in Katy so I can get lunch there.
It's gotdamned delicious. The breading kind of just floats over top the chicken and is so... I'm stopping. it's lunchtime and I'm not driving to Katy.
