Crowing Chicken

Once upon a time, way back before Red Mango, Tutti Frutti and California Berry took over Manila, there was a small soft serve FroYo place in Pampanga called Cold Spoon. It stood alone along Friendship Highway and was obviously owned by a Korean and people never really bothered to stop by and check out what they were selling. Until word got out that it was the most perfect soft-serve FroYo available in the whole country. Since then, a lot of people have given FroYo its much deserved attention and soft-serve FroYo, just like Cold Spoon's, became very much accessible in Manila.

Now comes fried chicken wings. There's Manang's from Mercato Centrale, Chicken Charlie, and Bonchon Manila. Way before all these yummy fried chicken with soy and sesame dressing came parading in Manila, there was Crowing Chicken. 

Crowing Chicken is a very small restaurant also located along Friendship Highway in Angeles City. It's so small, you won't even know it's there. I've seen its signage a lot of times before but never really went in. It was just a door beside my favorite Korean Grocery, Chukbuk Mart. 

So one day, while I was telling Victor how much I loved Manang's chicken wings, he mentioned that there was this Korean-owned fried chicken place in Angeles that nobody knew about. So he looked for it, found it, and tried it. Surprise, surprise. The place that's been ignored all these years served what we would go gaga over Bonchon and Chicken Charlie and Mannang's.
Meyrick and I went there tonight to try their soy and sesame dressing.

Crowing Chicken with soy and sesame dressing

Really yummy, if you ask me. Really, REALLY yummy if you ask Meyrick. A serving of 12 pc. chicken wings in soy and sesame dressing would cost you Php400. I find it expensive, given that the place is anything but fancy. Pero pwede na, masarap naman. Meyrick's sosyal, he didn't really care about the price. He doesn't even get why I'm comlplaining about the price.

In Chinese and Japanese restaurnts, they give you service tea. In this place, they give you service Coke. Oh, joy. I'm not a huge Coke drinker, but I think it's happiness to be given "service Coke".

Coke Sakto

They also serve chicken wings in Korean sweet and spicy sauce, but I like the soy and sesame a lot better. They also offer other parts, not just wings. You can order all legs, or half or whole of a chicken with the breast and thigh and pwet and all. The fried wings with soy and sesame dressing is very much comparable with Manang's but Crowing Chicken definitely is not just your ordinary fried chicken take away place. It offers tempura and other Korean dishes that I can't really remember. And while at it, don't forget to check out Chukbuk next door to get your fill of Korean grocery loot.

It's one of those days that I'm really glad Koreans are putting up businesses in Pampanga. Gives us variety, eh? Yehey 'til to the next food adventure surprise.