Seoul Chikin ATL

Korean Street Food and Fried Chicken Pop-Up Seoul Chikin Begins Popping up on Fridays at Smith’s Olde Bar in Piedmont Heights, Atlanta | Eater Atlanta

"I found Seoul Chikin to be a nostalgic Korean street-food pop-up founded by Stephanie Watson eight years ago in Washington, D.C. and revived in Atlanta in 2019. The star of the menu is her mother’s double-fried Korean fried chicken—served as wings or nuggets and finished with her umma’s sweet-and-spicy homestyle sauce—available tossed in a Signature sweet-and-spicy soy sauce or a Yangnyeom spicy-tangy gochujang with crushed peanuts and accompanied by Korean radish pickles. The regular pop-up menu also includes Umma’s Mandu (handmade beef, pork, and tofu dumplings with glass noodle and cabbage), rabokki (pan-fried rice cakes with ramen noodles, cabbage, gochujang-garlic and scallions), spiral Tornado Potato on a stick (garlic parmesan or spicy ketchup), and other dumplings and bar snacks. Watson hopes to add more days at the bar, expand the menu (potentially including weekend brunch), find a permanent Atlanta space, and use the pop-up to tell her story, create memories, and support community fundraisers." - Beth McKibben