Mun Pil-guk, a college freshman who attends Yonsei University, was one of those in attendance. Once you prove you’re old enough to attend the festival, you can indulge in a whole chicken that some claim has more than 1,000 kilocalories. In order to enter the world of chimaek, the first thing you do is to pull out your identity card. The festival took place between July 17 and 20.
They were there to celebrate the eve of the second Chimaek Festival, a one-of-a-kind event that is dedicated to the combo of deep-fried chicken and beer, often called chimaek for short in Korean. By Gong Jeong-sikĭAEGU - It was a sweltering summer weekday, but a throng of people began to flock to Duryu Park in Daegu at around 3 p.m. Riding on the popularity of chimaek in and outside of Korea, the young event attracted 100,000 festivalgoers alone on the eve of its first day. Find Chicken Seven at its website and Instagram.Ĭorrection: A previous version of this article named one of Chicken Seven's sauces, original fire, it's original fried.International students from Yeungnam University enjoy fried chicken and beer, often called chimaek in Korean, during the second Chimaek Festival held in Daegu last month.
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Once the dining room is open, the restaurant will play Billboard and Korean music videos on a mounted TV screen.Ĭhicken Seven is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. We are just testing out all of these munchies and trying to see what this neighborhood likes the most,” said Park. “We are going to add spicy chicken on a skillet we are going to add more beer. Once Chicken Seven opens for dine-in service, Park and Lee plan to also serve draft beer, including one Korean beer and cocktails made with soju – a distilled grain spirit.Įventually, Chicken Seven plans to expand their menu depending on the reception from the neighborhood. On the beverage side, Chicken Seven offers sparkling ice tea in peach or lemon. “We make all our sauces from scratch, except the buffalo," Park said. The restaurant has seven signature sauces to flavor their chicken including: original fried, soy garlic, spicy soy garlic, yum yum, fresh pepper garlic, honey garlic and buffalo. "Korean fried chicken is cooked for a longer time, so the chicken comes out crispy and you can even set it out overnight, and it’ll still be crispy the next day.” Another key to the crisp factor, Park explained, is making the coating on the chicken thin before frying and then once it’s out of the fryer brushing the sauce on top instead of soaking or dunking it.
“First, we marinate the chicken overnight in ten different spices," Park said. For now, Chicken Seven offers delivery through Door Dash and carry-out.Īs far as the restaurant's current menu, Chicken Seven's specialty is its crispy chicken. Louis from San Antonio, Texas, where Lee worked as a sushi chef.Ĭurrently, Chicken Seven's 1800-square feet space is not doing dine-in service, but the duo plans to have four tables on the outside patio available for dine-in early this fall.
Co-owners and husband and wife team, Erica Park and Sean Lee, opened Chicken Seven's doors July 23, just two months after arriving in St. Grand Blvd, Chicken Seven specializes in making crispy chicken and flavoring it with one of their seven signature sauces. The Carondelet neighborhood can now add Chicken Seven, a new Korean spot, to its local restaurant offerings.
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