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🍺 Korean fried chicken (chimaek)

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Double-fried chicken with a thin, crackling crust, eaten with beer — Korea's Friday-night ritual.

Chimaek joins 'chicken' and 'maekju' (beer). The bird is fried twice so the crust stays crisp, then either left plain or coated in sweet-spicy yangnyeom sauce. People have it delivered onto the grass beside the Han River, or sit in a shop until late. This is the dish that made Korea's fried chicken chains outnumber McDonald's worldwide.

Flavour: Crisp, salty-sweet, gently spicy

Ingredients

• Chicken
• Frying batter
• Yangnyeom sauce
• Pickled radish
• Beer