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ISAH V. RED EDITOR
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KPOP IDOL MEETS KPOP CHICKEN Kyochon lives by its frying. For the best taste, three promises: “First, Kyochon sticks to the SIMPLY we won’t make fast standard recipe on manRED food. Second, we only ual at clean kitchens. use natural ingredi“Double-frying and ISAH V. RED ents and third, we only piece-by-piece sauce coatmake healthy chicken ing are time-consuming, with honesty,” says Chanky Tiangco, but these are necessary processes for our Marketing manager of KyoChon Philip- hearty nutritious chicken,” says Tiangco. pines. “But now its time to fulfill a fourth “This distinguishes us from other fastpromise we made last year—and that is food restaurants. Because we value qualto let fans of KyoChon meet one of Kyo- ity ingredients and customers’ health, we Chon’s biggest fan—Lee Min Ho!” only serve honest, healthy chicken and In the last several months, KyoChon use all natural ingredients,” she added. held a promo that gave fans a chance to According to her, you wont find any meet the Korean Superstar in person. frozen chicken in their kitchen, and it Thousands of fans joined the contest post- will be cooked only after you order. In ing their pictures on Facebook hoping for addition, KyoChon only uses domestithe chance to be part of Lee Min Ho’s Fun cally grown, natural ingredients and Meet, which was held during the grand their chicken contains the lowest amount opening of its KyoChon’s newest branch of sodium among the industry, by natuat the Greenhills Theater Mall on Feb. 24. rally aged meat without curing. Lee Minho’s break-through success came in 2009 with the Korean version of WHICH KYOCHON CHICKEN ARE YOU? Boys Over Flowers as Gu Jun-pyo. The role Kyochon’s menu came to perfection won him several awards, including the Best through the combination of good ingreNew Actor award in the category of televi- dients grown by the wind, sunlight and sion at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards and soil, state-of-the-art facilities and their made him a household name in the Phil- specialists’ endless research and passion. ippines. He further cemented his status Kyochon is proud of the best, unrivaled as the leading-man with the success City taste, made from all natural ingredients. Hunter and The Heirs, which earned him The Kyochon Chicken comes in four another nomination for Most Popular Ac- (4) variant series – Original (Kyochon tor at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards. series), Honey (Honey series), Spicy (Red He visited the Philippines twice, first to series), and the Soonsal series. promote a local clothing brand and for The Original series is light and slightly an Asian Tour to promote his first album. salty with the crunchy and crispy chickMinho nabbed his first movie lead en coated in Kyochon’s exclusive soy garrole as an impoverished orphan-turned- lic glaze. mobster in Gangnam Blues, a noir action Sweet and sticky, but never runny, the film depicting the tumultuous history of Honey Series is marinated for 24 hours real estate development behind Seoul‘s in a special seasoning, the then fried to now most famous district. perfection and coated with natural honMinho’s visit to Manila, preceded the ey sauce. screening of the film a week later. Some like it hot, and for them there’s the KyoChon Red Series. Glazed with EMBRACING KOREAN CULTURE the original hot sauce made from Korea’s If there’s one culture Filipinos had em- hottest red chili peppers, this one is recbraced with open arms, it would be the ommended only for the brave ones. Korean culture. From television dramas Looking for something that is truly to pop music and KPop idols, Filipinos unique? Try the KyoChon Soonsal seriesare totally crazy about anything Korean. -boneless chicken breast strips coated in It comes as no surprise that when Kyo- special rice batter it comes with a choice Chon, Korea’s leading chicken restaurant of 3 dipping sauces. You can order it in chain, finally opened its doors, Filipinos soy Soonsal, Soonsal Rice Bowl, and for a were more than excited to line up and truly healthy meal there’s Soonsal Salad. taste Korea’s acclaimed best fried chicken. Besides its trademark chicken, KyoKyochon started the entire Korean Chon also serves Green Salad with fried chicken craze in the region when it Grilled Chicken (with the Choice of began serving its signature chicken dish- Blueberry or Orange Dressing) side es in 1991. It has since gone worldwide dishes like Wedge Potato, Pickled Radwith almost a thousand branches in the ish and rice cake soup and an assortment US, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malay- of drinks like the Kyochon Special Cold sia, China and the Philippines. Tea, Plum Sparkling Tea, Yuza Sparkling Tea, as well as barley, corn, and green tea LIGHT AND HEARTY RECIPE that goes well with any meal. Unlike ordinary fried chicken, KoreanKyoChon has branches located at style fried chicken is fried twice mak- the Greenhills Theatre Mall, Greenhills ing the skin crunchier and less greasy. Shopping Center; Upper Ground Floor, Kyochon’s thin batter and double frying SM Megamall Building B, SM Megamethod also remove excess oil, offers a mall, EDSA corner Julia Vargas Ave., Manclean and light taste. daluyong City; Sm City Fairview Ground The secret of crispy but moist chicken Floor, Main Building, SM City Fairview, is Kyochon’s 20-year know-how, and Quezon City, Ground Level,; and soon at Kyochon’s oil is exclusively for deep- the Eastwood Citywalk, Eastwood City. Continued on C7
Lee Minho delights hordes of KPop fans that filled the parking area fronting Greenhills Theater
Kyochon, the Korean restaurant that introduced Filipinos to Chicken like they’ve never had before, now brings fans an experience they’ve never had before
Minho with KyoChon executives from Korea
A standee of Korean superstar Lee Minho welcomes guests to the Greenhills branch of KyoChon