Chicken Joah — Restaurant in Melbourne

ORDERED (SEP 2025): 🍗 Whole boneless chicken ($40.00) soy garlic ($2.00) sweet spicy ($2.00) 🌽 Corn cheese ($16.50) 🍥 Sujebi Tteokbokki ($18.00) 🍛 KimCheese rice ($17.00) 🍟 Kimchi Poutine ($18.50) sunday surcharge 10%

Between 4 people, this was $30.25pp

REVIEW: 💛 It's such an easy and affordable eats at Chicken Joah. Delicious boneless chicken - soy garlic is still my favourite sauce where the soy has this umami taste, the garlic making it overall more fragrant. The corn cheese has an incredible cheese pull. ↕️

I'm not a fan of tteokbokki (but friends were) - they advised it was good! Kimcheese rice was plain, but it worked well when we were eating it with the boneless chicken. It became a more decadent bite than having chicken with plain steamed white rice. 😗

Service was friendly! We were able to walk in for Sunday lunch as well. ORDERED (2023): 🍗  Medium Boneless Chicken: with extra soy garlic flavour ($19.00) 🍟  Kimchi Poutine ($15.50) 🍝  Buldak Corn Cheese ($14.00)

REVIEW: Chicken Joah is a great place for small groups if you're walking in!

Its decoration gives casual vibes, and its food is the same. You're invited to devour SPICY delicious corn noodles, crispy korean chicken with fantastic sweet soy garlic flavour, and chippies heaped with kimchi on top. Eat with your hands for the chicken if you want! Definitely full after spending

*update added, chicken ✓ yess, budae jjigae ✗ no * Tasty fried chicken! Was craving for crispy boneless fried chicken and have personally wanted to try this restaurant for a long time. We tried it as we happened to be in the area. Some places I have tried the boneless chicken is too dry, but this one is great! We were surprised how crispy and tasty the chicken was. The original had nice seasoning. Tasty pickled radish too, however wish there was more radish per serving as we love our radish.

My husband is Korean and he approved of the taste, surprised on the crispy yet thin coating and said it was really good too. 😵

Would like to see if the quality is consistent, try the other flavours and bone-in chicken next time!

Update: Would recommend chicken, but would not recommend the army stew, budae jjigae.

I love the chicken here but have been hesitant on trying othe other 'classic' korean menu items, but we tried the budae jjigae along with the chicken. Honestly, I did not have high expectations for the army stew as I think this store's strong point is definitely the chicken, rather than their side items. The army stew was really sad.

The consistency was much closer to water than it was for a stew / jjigae. From our experience, I could not taste the gochujang which is supposed to give it more of a thicker, jjigae consistency. It tasted like a great majority of the dish was just the ramen seasoning.

It was just a really sad experience as the chicken is wonderful! If I compared the two, it would be like -80 for the jjigae and 100 for the chicken. I think the jjigae recipe could definitely use some revision and improvement. I have only tried the chicken and budae jjigae. I'm still too hesistant to try the other items in fear of being disappointed as I would rather spend the money on...

Looking for authentic Korean food in Melbourne? @chickenjoah.co in @lovefootscray is all about mouthwatering, authentic and budget friendly, high quality Korean food.

We loved the charming ambiance here, and the menu has a lot of options that includes all the OG Korean delicacies. We absolutely loved the Korean fried chicken here and must try the lemongrass fish sauce and the soy garlic, snow chilli flavours. Just mind blowing. Loved the KFC was super crispy, tender from inside and very flavourful.

Also their army stew and tteokbokki are equally tasty, satisfying and not too spicy.

The corn cheese noodles was just divine and was packed with fantastic flavours, highly recommended. Whereas you will fall in love with the loaded bulgogi fries, very cheesy and delicious. Never tried this before, yet it was very irresistible.

The team of staff were very welcoming, polite, and kind folks and the service was attentive and prompt. Also the prices are unbelievably pocket friendly and this is a perfect spot for yummy cheap eats!

Pay with cash to get 10%off and definitely checkout @chickenjoah.co this week for lunch/dinner with your...