Bonchon San Gabriel
Asian fusion restaurant · San Gabriel
710 W Las Tunas Dr C2-C4, San Gabriel, CA 91776
Highlights
Crispy double-fried Korean chicken with soy garlic & spicy flavors
Crispy double-fried Korean chicken with soy garlic & spicy flavors
"Parked in a little plaza on Las Tunas with a few other restaurants and a rolled ice cream spot, this popular KFC chain usually has a short but consistent line outside. The style is the Korean fried chicken you know - lightly-battered, twice-fried - but the soy garlic is less gloopy than at other places that go too liberal with the sauce. Whether you dig that is up to you, but whatever you do, don’t neglect the spicy chicken. The lunch box special contains wings, drumsticks, or strips, plus a choice of two sides including soda, danmuji pickled radish, steamed rice, coleslaw, or kimchi, and will only set you back $9-$11. For the anti-KFC, there’s a decent tteokbokki, tasty japchae, and fiery buldak (stir-fried spicy chicken with rice cakes and mozzarrella)." - dakota kim
"South Korea-based Bonchon came to San Diego in 2018, bringing Korean-style fried chicken to Convoy Street. With more than 200 stores in nine countries, the restaurant’s twice-fried-to-order chicken comes with either a soy garlic or spicy glaze, or a mix of the two with its half-and-half. Order the best-selling chicken wings, or try chicken strips, drumsticks and boneless wings." - darlene-horn
"Parked in a little plaza on Las Tunas with a few other restaurants and a rolled ice cream spot, this popular KFC chain usually has a short but consistent line outside. The style is the Korean fried chicken you know - lightly-battered, twice-fried - but the soy garlic is less gloopy than at other places that go too liberal with the sauce. Whether you dig that is up to you, but whatever you do, don’t neglect the spicy chicken. The lunch box special contains wings, drumsticks, or strips, plus a choice of two sides including soda, danmuji pickled radish, steamed rice, coleslaw, or kimchi, and will only set you back $9-$11. For the anti-KFC, there’s a decent tteokbokki, tasty japchae, and fiery buldak (stir-fried spicy chicken with rice cakes and mozz)." - Dakota Kim
"There’s a ‘Tom Brady will beat your team’-sized bet to be made that Bonchon will have the best chicken wings of any place on this list. The beer offerings are severely limited but if chicken and beer is what you’re after, there’s enough TV’s to catch some football on Sundays." - Euno Lee, Farley Elliott
"Though more recent Korean immigrants might scratch their heads (there are only a handful of Bonchon locations in the motherland), thoughtful touches like exclusively offering strips (no) and drumsticks (yes) ease diners into BonChon’s perfect marriage of salty-sweet soy garlic glaze and the schmaltzy, shattering crunch of chicken skin. Waits at its SGV location can range into Howlin’ Rays territory, but Korean fried chicken zealots eagerly crowd the entrance and peer longingly at diners seemingly taking their sweet time inside. It’s all proof positive that BonChon is in a category by itself." - Euno Lee
