Jinjja Chicken!

This is a very messy-looking dish of a fried chicken meal. 

But it is meant to be. 

And worth the mess it is, too. 

Jinjja Chicken is (usually) not the first place that comes to mind when I think of Korean-style fried chicken in Singapore. 

(I, ummm, have my own favorite place for that)

But these guys had recently moved themselves from the shop house near Bugis Street into Bugis Plus mall itself, and with us feeling more peckish than hungry on this particular day- decided that a meal of fried chicken would be a good weekend dinner. 

There was a bit of contemplation. 

What would we take?

What exactly was best for us to take? 

More often than not, our tastes run to the simple- a nice piece of skillfully fried chicken with tender juicy meat and crisp, crunchy skin. 

But Korean-style fried chicken is a whole different game altogether. 

Because even though you want to have just the original fried chicken, the flavors are very enticing too. 

It's like if you can choose between a soy garlic or a yangnyum versus an original.... well (unless you're not a fan of those flavors).. why not? 

My companion had not thought the regular fried chicken any different from some of our favorite places elsewhere.

So we went for the yangnyum version instead. 

Two different types of chicken we ordered- I don't remember exactly what- but I think one had wings and drumlets whilst the other was something like popcorn chicken- but slightly bigger.

Shall I say that the chicken pieces- despite looking rather hard when the bowl first arrived at the table- had in fact a very crisp skin and it broke off cleanly at first bite together with the surprisingly tender meat inside? 

And shall I say that yangnyum was an excellent choice for a (different) fried chicken experience because the combination of gochujang, garlic, ketchup (maybe) and sugar (maybe) gave the meat a hint of spicy with a lot of sweet. 

It isn't every day that I get to have chicken drumlets and wings slathered thickly with sweet (very sweet) hot pepper sauce.

We started out the meal eating with knives and forks. 

By the third piece we had progressed to napkins and hands. 

Yes, it was a memorable meal. 

Fun. 

So wonderful, so good.