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bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Ok, I've been living in Korea for years now, and maybe my tastes have changed. When I went home to the USA, I was amazed how huge the chicken is at restaurants. I also couldn't believe how poorly it tasted (I ate at many places) compared to Korean chicken. I noticed this same poor taste the last time I bought frozen chicken from Costco in Seoul (imported). The pieces were also huge.

Are American chicken sellers more interested in growing huge chickens for better profits? Has the taste gone downhill as a result?

I'm beginning to wonder.

The USA beef still tastes as good to me, though.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

I like the sheer variety of chicken dishes. Including the hot sweet barbeque at places like Hoo La La

Then I also like the spicy Yangyum fried chicken

I also love the roast chicken from the back of a pick up truck.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I had the wings special at a pub in Canada with a few friends last week, and was unimpressed both in terms of size and taste - and we had several different kinds. I also had a bit of Save-on-Foods whole barbequed chicken and was also not very impressed.

sojourner1 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

Yea, I agree that Korean chicken is tastier. Korean chicken is more tender, moist, and flavorful, but this could be chemicals that tenderize the meat and flavor it such as MSG. Korean chicken might also be raised in more traditional fashion such as on a real farm where it mostly eats grains instead of feed made of garbage.

The Australian beef is far superior too as it's leaner and tastes much better. American food comes in quantity, not quality. I've noticed that in Korea, meat comes in quality, not quantity and you do pay many times more for that quality.

Jandar · Joined: 11 Jun 2008

The chicken probably would taste good here it it were cooked it correctly.

It's always stringy and rubbery here, except KFC and Popeyes.

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

chicken wings are better in the us and a though

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Bird flu makes it better. Wink

Someone had to say it Razz

GG

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

The chicken here tastes great - one of the reasons I came back
(apart from being a feckless loser in my home country) was
because of kyo-chon chicken.

Temporary · Joined: 13 Jan 2008

mass produced chicken is crap. I preffer free range monster chickens I could get back home.. Those were tasty.

rhinocharge64 · Joined: 20 Sep 2006

Korean chicken no. 1!!

aka Dave · Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river

Currently I only eat chicken breast, which is fairly bland and I can't tell the difference. The chickens are smaller, maybe they're younger, but my fav. chicken was a free range roast chicken. Here, no oven, no roast chicken.

I do the pork is better. It tastes more tender. American pork tends to dry out and you really have to be careful cooking it. If you buy galbi from the supermarket it's really hard to make it tough. Delish stuff.

red_devil · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Location: Korea

If you're talking about FRIED chicken i wholeheartedly agree. Kyochon vs. KFC? No contest. The Korean fried chicken has a lighter, crispier batter than the American which is really just a big soppy, greasy mess.

Good NY Times article.

visitorq · Joined: 11 Jan 2008

two words: monosodium glutamate.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:31 am Post subject:

Beej · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop