Bonchon Convoy — Restaurant in San Diego

Overall good but not great. I went at lunch on a weekday and had the Soy Garlic and Spicy combo (4 each) and the seasoned fries. There were just a few tables with customers, pretty quiet. Service was good, they were prompt and courteous.

Wings were good, better than at Cross Street Chicken and Beer (which in spite of many fawning reviews I have found to be underwhelming), but not as good as Furaido in Poway (best I've had in San Diego) or the Korean fried chicken I've had in Korea.

EDIT: This just in, the chicken wings at Facing East are the best we've had in the Convoy area, closest to the best we have eaten in Korea. Not to be missed.

Back to Bochon...they don't overdo the sauce which is nice, but the KFC crunch was just not as hoped for. The soy garlic were for some reason crisper than the spicy wings, maybe the spicy wings had sat around for a little bit waiting for the soy garlic to be ready.

I also had the seasoned fries, and they were a bit confusing. Though they had what looked like a lot of seasoning on them, they were significantly under seasoned due to a lack of just plain old salt. They provided some salt when I asked and after the addition the fries were very good, quite crispy, perfectly cooked. They provide ketchup with the fries. I think they have an opportunity here, to come up with a ketchup\gochujang combination with the fries to provide a more interesting experience. I had french fries at a Korean-owned small lunch kiosk in Lahaina, and they had a french fry dish there there was created with a gochujang-based sauce, and it was amazing.

I'd like to come back to try a few more of their dishes, they have some interesting items...

Definitely a nice relaxing Lunch. Came on a Wednesday and stayed for dessert. Had to try the Kkabaegi. Basically cinnamon and sugar twisted donuts. They where perfectly light, airy and Delicious. See the photos, as they where much larger than I expected! 4.99 for 2 and another .99 cents for the cream sauce. I was not too particular about the cream sauce but it was worth a try. The flavor to me seems like the milk after eating a cinnamon cereal. Smooth and creamy though so worth a try for yourself. Now on the the actual food!. I ordered the half and half chick wing lunch special. The spicy was infact spicy. The flavor was good but was a little bit too spicy for me after living in Utah for the last few years. It is definitely a Korean Spicy though. The other is the soy garlic sauce you read about in all the other reviews that also lured me into this fine establishment. It was very good. Definitely sweet but the flavor was excellent. I normally do not care for sweet sauces but would have this one again. It is that good. The main thing that impressed me though is the light and airy fry batter on the chicken. This fried chicken will not leave you feeling sluggish with their fried chicken. I ordered the season fries with my meal and they where perfectly fried with crispy outside and soft potato inside. I will say do not expect a Cajun or other seasoning. Their season fries consist of Parmesan cheese. I fully intend to come back to try their tacos and sliders...

Best Korean Fried Chicken is what I searched for in the Google search. This place popped up as #1 in Korean Fried Chicken. It is not the best Korean fried chicken.

They didn't have boneless chicken and so we ordered the medium chicken tenders half soy garlic and half spicy. They both were spicy and couldn't taste any soy or any garlic. The sauce was very minimal. Some parts of the tender had no sauce on them. Korean Fried Chicken is well known for the crispness. These were floppy tenders. Disappointing to say the least.

We ordered "Seasoned" fries. The fries were seasoned with parsley and parmesean cheese with no seasoned salt at all. They were so bland like their chicken.

The one thing that we did like was the Bulgogi Tacos. 3 tacos for $14. They were very flavorful and I would buy those again, but don't ever plan on spending my money there again.

Service was good as well. Music and ambience is good too. Too bad the chicken is just chicken with no Korean-style whatsoever.

I would recommend KnockOut Chicken instead. They serve their food Korean-style with lots of sauce that is sticky, that gets all over your hands and face!

Bonchon had no sauce dripping anywhere at all. Had to get the food to go as I didn't want to be there anymore because the food was disappointing.

Even though the food was bad, I still gave a 20% tip because it's not the servers fault.

I just had my son try it, as I'm writing thus review, and he said Wing Stop is...