Thunderbird Korean Fried Chicken on Cook st — Restaurant in Victoria

I want to preface my review by saying I work for a variety of high end food festivals, I eat out often, and lastly I eat fried chicken...a lot, almost weekly. So before I offer my critique let me just say this. It has amazing fried chicken. I had a half/half order (yes to myself. I eat lots of fried chicken) with Gan-jang and Yang-nyeom . I want to break down my experience between the sauces and the chicken itself, which I will start with. The quality of meat and skill of preparation really shine through. It's crispy and the chicken is a sort of juicy that can only happen when the it is cooked perfectly. It was seasoned perfectly for my tastes. With the sauces the chicken was well and evenly coated overall. The Gan-jang, or sweet and savory soy sauce, was my personal favourite of the two. It was exactly as it's name implies sweet, savoury, and soy forward. The Yang - nyeom, a sweet chili sauce, was tasty as well but it was the only thing that didn't reach 100 in my experience. I love garlic but the garlic in this sauce was served raw or not fully cooked. I could very much note what I believe to be the flavour of garlic that was older or had gone green. Still totally edible and delicious but distinctly noticeable in the sauce. The service was courteous and quick and the decor was fun without being obnoxious. Pricing is right where I would expect for this quality. Finally, I look forward to going back and trying more of their menu and recommend you...

I am sharing my experince, because there are lot more option and this is not the place you should be wasting your money for food, Restaurant lacks in intaregieity i ordered 7 pieces regular chicken and luckly out of 7 pieces none them was wings or drum stick and when asked they said we do not know if there is bone in piece or not as per them they and while cooking and pacing they dont know if there is no bone in piece, its nothing but lack of integrity in serving quality food if they not even concerned and compromise on what can be noticed i wonder what else they compromise with qaulity of food inside of kitchen!!! Not at all sugeested!!!

Edited reply, absolutely soggy food and re-fired and you are not the only restaurant serves korean chicken and its life time eating korean fried chicken, you are assuming that we lack in understanding in chicken pieces, you have worst chicken quality, lack of options make be demanding for now but not for long thanks for wasting my money ruining my dinner experince but i have to give you 100 out of 100 tring defend it just as you and empolyee did said at restaurant that i was just unlucky to get not one no bome in piece and telling we that weather i eat KFC or not !!! No i am no longer wasting my time and money towards your restaurant!!! Thanks!! Quick update please please try 649 you will never eat here ...

Gone way downhill, ordered 7 pieces with a side of hot sauce. They didn't bother to fill the hot sauce container, it's was about 1/8th full. 3 of my chicken pieces were so tiny like they cut a thigh into 3 pieces. The coating was not crispy and tasted very different. Maybe the owner went away on vacation on something.

I think they are over crowding their fryer because it like the chicken was soggy and greasy, or maybe they dumped a bunch of chicken in a pile and it was getting steamed and oil dripped all over it. Very disappointing. Went from the best chicken place place to the worst very quickly.

This is my 5th time ordering and the 3rd time having an issue with my order. Last time I was missing a piece and another time I was given a piece of chicken that was more akin to a chicken nugget.

Don't order take out here, sit in so you can actually get them to fix their mistakes, which are often. I have a feeling they give better service to customers who dine in.

This place needs to figure out another way to make money, cheaping out on stuff like hot sauce or trying to make 3 pieces of chicken out of what would normally be one is the wrong way to go about it. It was bad enough that they reduced the medium from 9 pieces to 7, but now to make those pieces smaller is just crazy.

Update: Ordered a couple more times and its been better so I...