🍗 Salt Lake City | Visiting the World’s First KFC! 🧑‍🍳✨

On my last day in Salt Lake City, I made a stop at the world’s first KFC! 🏆 As the oldest chain restaurant location, it’s packed with vintage photos and even displays the original pressure fryer Colonel Sanders used — it’s like a mini museum in there! 📸🍗 We ordered the Original Recipe chicken, fries, and mashed potatoes — the fries were great, but the rest tasted pretty standard, just like any other KFC. Every time I have KFC in the U.S., I miss the egg tarts you can only get in China… we really eat better back there 😭 💡 Fun fact: The very first KFC was opened by Colonel Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky in the 1930s, but this Salt Lake City location (1952) is recognized as the first official KFC franchise — the true beginning of the modern KFC chain! Afterward, we headed to the nearby Chinatown — just a 5-minute ride away. SLC’s Chinatown is super tiny and can be explored in no time. We had dessert at Meet Fresh, browsed an Asian market, and — the real highlight — I scored a 3rd-gen Labubu blind box! 🎉 Who else gets the joy of pulling a rare purple Labubu?! 💜🤩 🍲 Dinner was at Top Pot & K BBQ — an amazing all-you-can-eat hot pot & Korean BBQ spot! Lots of variety: fresh veggies, seafood, and ready-to-eat dishes like braised pig feet, sour cabbage fish, and pork ears. Though the meat selection was a bit limited, for $30 per person (with a 10% discount for first-timers), it was totally worth it. Coming from the Bay Area, I really appreciate how budget-friendly Salt Lake City is! Hope to come back this winter for skiing! 🎿❄️ #SaltLakeCity #WorldsFirstKFC #KFCHistory #LabubuLove #SLCEats #BudgetTravel