The Fry

My hubby loves fried food, in particular fried chicken.  Every once in a while, he requests to eat fried chicken.  And more often than not, I say no, not because it’s not healthy, but because my stomach is quite sensitive and I can’t handle all that grease and salt.  But this time, I agreed to eat some Korean fried chicken for a late dinner.  The place was packed when we arrived at 930p.  Could also be because the restaurant is quite small.  We had to wait almost half an hour for a table.

Korean fried chicken, to me is pretty much like any regular fried chicken, but with slightly less batter, and more Asian flavouring.  We went to The Fry on Yonge through a recommendation from my friend.  We kind of over ordered……  My friend had said repeatedly that we won’t need so much food (there was the 4 of us), and I didn’t listen.  My eyes were bigger than my stomach (old Chinese saying).  We ordered an order of French fries, boneless chicken with green onion, half chicken with soy garlic sauce, and half chicken original flavour.  Before the chicken came out we got some free appetizers.  Appetizers included lettuce salad, pickled radish, coleslaw, and this hot corn kernels dish.  The coleslaw I think was bought that way, nothing spectacular.  The salad, the lettuce was fresh, nothing wilted.  The corn kernels were hot and buttery.  The french fries were nothing special, just normal frozen fries.

Free Appetizers

French Fries

The boneless chicken pieces with green onion, was essentially original flavour boneless chicken pieces topped with a heaping stack of fresh/raw green onions.  The raw green onion was a good refreshing contrast to the piping hot chicken.

Boneless Green Onion Chicken

The other 2 dishes we ordered, half chicken with garlic soy, and half chicken original flavour, in my opinion was much better than the boneless.  I guess the bone in factor retains a lot more of the moisture, resulting in much juicer meat.  I preferred the original flavour over the garlic soy, but that’s just personal preference.  I just like my food plainer. 

Garlic Soy Half Chicken

Original Half Chicken

One thing I did like was that it wasn’t overly salty like Popeyes or Kentucky Fried Chicken.  What I did notice was that the chicken wasn’t as crispy on the outside.  My friend said that normally it’s crispier and maybe it was just an off day.  Means a repeat visit will be required one day.

The Fry 

4864 Yonge St.,

North York, ON

M2N 5N2

Phone:  (416) 546-6159

Hours:  Monday - Saturday 5:00p - 3:00a

             Sunday 5:00p - 12:00a