Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Fried Chicken Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their fried chicken dishes into this challenge, some of the restaurants have created a special fried chicken creation just for this challenge and others have entered their top choice off their existing menu. Each restaurant will be featuring their fried chicken creation on their menu from November 5-29, 2020.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the fried chicken creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best fried chicken creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #FriedChickenChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets and social media mentions during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite fried chicken creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Please VOTE for your favourites between November 5-29, 2020.
Here are the Fried Chicken creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Win Win Chick-N
Win Win Chicken Spicy Habanero
Price: $8.99 + tax or $5.00 + tax if customer choose drumsticks only and they still get the choice of the 2 sides
Created by: our team
The dish: We are serving 2 pieces Leg and thigh with a choice: one side of our Filipino sweet style macaroni pasta or our hand cut doubled fried french fries.
Description: Our chicken’s our locally sourced, always fresh never frozen, we hand breaded our chickens with our in house breading mix (no dairy product), we always recommend to our customers to place their orders in advance as we cook fresh batches of our delicious fried chickens each time. Our original home-made Filipino style macaroni pasta are loaded with lean ground pork slices of hotdogs some of our customers say it’s already a complete meal! A must try is our fresh hand cut french fries no preservatives and is sourced from our local farmers.
Offered: all the time
Win Win Chick-N
12160 First Ave, Richmond
Tel: 778 297 5818
Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/
Instagram @winwinchickn2018
And
Win Win Chick-N
8197 Main Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 423-4818
Web: https://www.winwinchick-n.com/
Instagram @winwinchickn2018
Super Hiro’s Restaurant
Chicken All Stars
Price: $14.50 (8 pieces)
Created by: Chef Hiroki Watanabe
Description: fried chicken style, we call this “Karaage”. Crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside (using Japanese technique) with ginger sauce.
Offered: all the time
Delivery/Takeout: Call for pickup; available for delivery by DoorDash and Fantuan
Super Hiro’s Restaurant
2585 West Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 737-3333
Web: https://www.superhiros.com/
Instagram @superhiros.restaurant
Rib&Chicken
Trio Chicken
Price: $31.99 (family size)
Created by: the team
Description: A crispy outer edge and tender inside with 3 sauces of your choice: Original, Sweet & Spicy, Garlic, Sweet & Soy
Offered: all the time
Delivery/Takeout:
Rib&Chicken
1660 Renfrew Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 243-2550
Web: https://www.ribandchicken.ca/
Instagram @ribnchicken
HiFive Chicken 24 Hour
Chicken Cordon Bleu
Price: $13.95
Created by: Chef Binod
Description- Stuffed chicken with baked potato, garden salad and maple gravy.
Offered: All the time for dining-in only.
HiFive Chicken 24 Hour
203 SE Marine Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 327-4898
Web: https://www.hifive24.com/
Instagram @hifive.chicken
Chicken World
Big Show Combo
Price: $11.50
Created by: Adeel Jahangir
Description: This combo is called the Big Show because it’s a handful of our top selling items! Inside you’ll find the most popular Gabbar Burger, 1 piece of fried chicken (your choice of leg or thigh, spicy or regular), small fries, and 1 sauce of choice (choose from 3 of our secret sauces!)
Gabbar Burger – Freshly toasted brioche bun, chopped iceberg lettuce, Spicy house mayonnaise or regular mayonnaise, thick mozzarella cheese (additional) and two tender juicy chicken thigh filets (regular or spicy)
Fried chicken – we marinade our chicken for minimum 24 hours with our secret 13 herbs and spices recipe and hand bread every chicken piece fried to perfection.
Crunchy and crispy potato fries (can be additionally charged for Masala or peri peri flavour) for 50 cents only.
1 sauce of choice that is made in house with our secret recipes and local ingredients: Spicy Mayonnaise, Chilli garlic sauce or Nosh e jaan.
Offered: all the time
Takeout/Delivery: Takeout and dine in only but not delivery
Chicken World
1181 Denman Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 681-0007
And
Chicken World
12842 96 Ave, Surrey
Tel: (604) 588-0221
And
Chicken World
13775 72 Ave #14, Surrey
Tel: (604) 594-0001
Web: http://chickenworldbc.com/
Instagram @chickenworldcanada
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Rick Green
Freelance writer for BC Brews and other publications
Twitter: @BCbrews
Instagram @b.c.beerblog .
Shelley Hayashi
Influencer/Concierge Les Clefs d’Or Concierge
Twitter: @shelleyhayashi
Instagram: @shelleyhayashi
Tara Lee
Writer for Inside Vancouver and other publications.
Twitter: @VanGlutton
Instagram @vanglutton
Make sure you pick up one of the Fried Chicken Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from November 5-29, 2020 at https://vancouverfoodster.com/fried-chicken-challenge/