What’s Cooking: Soul Chicken brings Korean-style fried chicken to Honolulu

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – You can find a taste of Korean soul/Seoul in Honolulu.

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Anthony Han, owner of Soul Chicken, and his son Aiden joined HNN’s Sunrise to showcase their Korean fried chicken and side dishes.

Han immigrated from South Korea in 2000 and attended Kapiolani Community College (KCC). The serial entrepreneur is also a self-taught developer of point-of-sale platforms and karaoke systems for local Hawaii restaurants and bars.

“We were going to open a Korean franchise, but the deal failed right after we signed the lease. So I just studied myself, made chicken every day for six months. We call it Soul Chicken because we wanted to put the soul of Korean flavor into it,” Han said.

Han says he makes everything fresh when you order and doesn’t double-fry, so the food is not greasy.

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Soul Chicken’s first location at 1095 Dillingham Blvd. in Kalihi is still open, but has been impacted by ongoing Skyline construction. They opened a second location inside the Midtown Eats Food Hall at 1515 Liona St. in Keeaumoku, on the ground floor of The Park, near Walmart.

Midtown Eats has 14 food vendors and a bar, serving everything from sushi, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, ramen, Middle Eastern, desserts, sugar cane juice, even gelato. The hall is open daily 10:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.

The K Park Bar is showing all the World Cup games and is open Mondays–Thursdays 3–10 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. – midnight, and Sundays 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. Free validated parking available in stalls marked “Commercial” on levels 1 to 2.5 of the parking structure. Enter from Liona St or Rycroft St.

Learn more at soulchickenhawaii.com or midtowneatshi.com. Or follow Soul Chicken on Instagram @soulchickenhawaii.

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