Aria Korean Street Food — Restaurant in Redwood City

Second time trying this Peninsula location. It was much better this time around, but still a far cry from the City.

The glaze on the chicken tasted right this time, but it didn't really have that sticky glaze like it should, just basically swimming in sauce. The chicken itself was lacking on the batter, changing the flavor profile completely, and had NO crisp at all, just mushy chicken swimming in sauce. It was also really small compared to how they stack it up in SF.

The Bulgogi Fries on the other hand were a total disappointment. I've eaten these in SF at least 100 times, and while there's always a range depending on who's cooking and how the meat is cut, this was totally different.

The fries were thicker krinkle cut, there was hardly any meat, cheese, or sauce, and the bulgogi steak was a completely different cut, more like crumbles than strips, and had a different flavor all together.

When these are prepared correctly you have meat, cheese, sauce, and fries with every bite, and usually finish the fries before you run out of anything else.

The first two pics are to show how sparse these were today on the Peninsula, and all other pics are from Aria in SF...

This Aria is located at the DoorDash Kitchens, so you place your order online on DoorDash, and pick up your order at the door. I think there's a limited number of people actually working to hand orders out, but that's a DoorDash thing, not an Aria thing.

I ordered food for pickup on a Friday evening (~6pm), and the food was ready pretty quickly (15mins). I ordered the Family Bundle (Combo A), which included Korean Fried Chicken with Garlic Soy (10 pieces), Gangjung Fried Chicken with Sweet and Spicy (10 pieces), and an order of Bulgogi Kimbap. I also got the Bulgogi Fries and the Mandu Ganjung with the Garlic Soy glaze.

I'd say the Garlic Soy Mandu Ganjung was amazing 10/10, would order again, and probably a double order next time. 😅 KFC and GJ Fried Chicken were both also pretty good - note it's all meat, no bones! I have no problem with that actually, just was surprised cause I thought it would be like wings/drums. The chicken was nice and juicy and the different sauces paired well with it. My personal favorite is the Garlic Soy sauce, but the Green sauce was also a hit. The Bulgogi Fries and Bulgogi Kimbap were just...

Ordered the 10pcs Glazed Fried Chicken and Bulgogi Fries on Doordash for delivery.

The glazed fried chicken was ordered with he sweet & spicy sauce but it was not very spicy and too sweet. There was also a bit too much glaze combined with the delivery time make the skin soggy rather than nice and crispy.

The bulgogi fries however I can highly recommend. Super delicious sauce, nice pieces of shredded beef and there’s a decent amount of it. Good combination, not overly sauced and it wasn’t ideal with delivery but fries were...