Rice Chicken — Restaurant in San Diego

First off, Rice Chicken is a decent place for fried chicken, overpriced, but still good fried chicken.

A couple things are increasingly irritating about it though. The credit card reader "assumes" you want to tip and asks you how much you want to tip. It doesn't have an option to not tip unless you push the option "other". What is the customer supposed to be tipping for? Driving there and picking it up themselves?

Their menu states that Traditional Fried Chicken comes with coleslaw and pickled radish, it used to. Then, to get the coleslaw and pickled radish you had to ask for it. Now the Traditional Fried Chicken does not come with their condiment sized coleslaw and pickled radish included, and they are charging $1 a piece for each item.

To me it's the principle. I want to support local businesses, but between their "shady" credit card reader and the "nickel and diming" it's customers for basically nothing, I'd rather go elsewhere.

It's not like Rice Chicken is very different from Popeyes... Except for at Popeyes you can get a Family Meal, large side, and 4 biscuits for...

Ok I promise one day Ill try something other then the fried chicken sandwiches its just that theyre pretty fricken good. I did try one with baked chicken today and it was just as delicious! The cole slaw in it isnt super mayo-y (its tangy just not overdone with mayo, so I can pretend I'm eating healthy 😅). Also- it doesnt taste like cabbage but lettuce (not as crunchy). It says the pickles in the sandwich are sweet but theyre ... not. Not an issue, just a personal preference. The battered fried chicken is amazing too, nice little kick to them but not burn-your-mouth spicy. Ive tried the honey garlic (can barely taste it), and the sweet and spicy- both times ot seems like there's very little sauce on them. If only the additional sauces weren't $2 extra I could adequately sauce my sandwich :( (srsly thats too much for a tiny cup o sauce). The fries are crunchy and when they deliver them they leave flaps open so nothing geta soggy (a plus). They do seem a little expensive and I'm still trying to decide if $13 for a chicken sandwich and fries...

We came here for dinner on a recent trip to San Diego because my sister and her daughter are GF. The chicken was nice and crispy and retained its heat so well. Even the last piece was still steaming when bitten into.

We ordered the 10 piece original spicy thigh and leg and half a spicy soy marinated chicken. We also ordered the kimchi fried rice and the fried tofu bowl. For GF, we ordered the original and half a traditional mild soy. Traditional isn’t breaded at all. We also received a small diced pickled daikon and a coleslaw for free.

Flavor: chicken was crispy and juicy. Flavor was good. Soy marinated was a little bit sweet. I felt both the fried rice and fried tofu were lacking in flavor but ok.

Service - everyone was very nice and it looked like they were working as fast as they could. All of the food seemed like it was freshly made/fried.

We would definitely recommend this place for anyone looking for crispy fried chicken, whether Gluten...