Did you order the regular chicken or the spicy? I’ve only gotten the spicy. I am pretty sure that they inject it with marinade because there is always an area where the spicyness is more intense, and on some pieces you can see a dot in this area.
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Regular. I didn’t realize they had spicy until I was driving away. Kicked myself for that one because I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more.
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Just for you I took the dive today. Fascination is not a word I would use. 
Ordered the burger and the spicy fried chicken.
The burger took me right back to a memorable Public School lunch in Brooklyn in the late 70’s. I could have sworn I was eating a mystery salisbury steak that had been sitting in some steam table for a few weeks and then taken out to cool off before serving. The bun was equally miserable. Blech.
The fried chicken was fine and if there were a bucket sitting by me at some picnic I would eat it. I would not go out of my way to order it again, however. IMO, my local Stop and Shop does it better.
Zero chance I would try that spaghetti abomination, but I’m glad Greg did.
As a side note at 12:30 today there were only a couple cars in line. I only hope that everyone else who used to choke those drive thru lanes was eating better food.
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I drove by today and the drive-thru line was two lanes backing all the way out to the street. It looked like a rush hour traffic jam.
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Amazing how popular this place is.
They now have somebody assigned to putting up cones in front of the entrance as soon as the drive through line queues to the street. When some space frees up, they remove them. Somebody stopped on the road looking to get in while the cones were up, stopping the traffic behind him. He was told to keep moving. How many places wish they had a problem like this, having to turn away business.
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I know a Chic Fil A in Aberdeen MD that could use something like this. My wife and I had to drive down to Falls Church VA a couple of weeks ago and wanted to stop at the Chaps Pit Beef location in Aberdeen on the way down. There was a Chic Fil A on the corner of the block Chaps was on and the entrance to get into it was blocking people from turning onto the road.
Also the sandwiches at Chaps were as good as we remembered from a trip to Baltimore a few years ago so if you are in an area where a Chaps is we would highly recommend stopping at one.
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This is my thread kind of hard not to post this once you read it.
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Oh my!!!
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I guess she didn’t have a jolly day after that one.
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I finally went to one today. A drive through line reminiscent of In N Out and Chick Fil A, at noon on a Friday, mid June.
I’ve only tried the sandwich so far, which was okay, but certainly not better than, and maybe not as good as Popeye’s and Chick Fil A.
I was here for the dark meat fried chicken on the bone, which I may end up describing on a fast food or fried chicken thread. I have professed my love for Popeye’s, but have had a few disappointments with the fried chicken lately. I haven’t had their sandwich in a while, but that’s not why i went there.
BTW; What an…eclectic menu is described in various reviews! I don’t know if everything is offered here in this Fairfield, CA place, and I think we have some serious Filipino influence where this place is. I’d love to learn more about how their menus evolved.
I had to ask the employee…“wait…did you say gravy?”. She said “It’s good.”. I said “but not on it, right?”. Comes in a separate container. Shades of 60’s-70’s KFC!
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I have this weird affinity for Jollibee’s Palabok Fiesta, especially after a few glasses of TJ’s Two Buck Chuck.
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I had jollibee for the first time recently and their spicy fried chicken is fricking great!! And the gravy is a total game changer, it’s so obvious in retrospect but man why isn’t fried chicken dunked in gravy a more common thing!
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I’ve only tried their fried chicken, twice, and found it to be meh at most. The gravy is decent tho.
Is that with spaghetti or some other noodle?
bihon noodles (aka as rice vermicelli)
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Nice. The pictures make it look like they use spaghetti!
ETA ; I see. Maybe that was a different item.
They do have a spaghetti dish.
Never ordered it though.
I am afraid it would trigger my PTS from my aunt’s “homemade” spaghetti using ketchup, soy sauce and Chinese sweet sausage. Bless her soul.
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Inspired by this thread I tried out the Jollibee by the office. Unfortunately that meant going through Times Square. Got the deluxe sandwich
Crispy but a weird texture to the chicken. Whatever it is marinated in makes it rubbery. Tasted okay but not a fan of rubber chicken unless it’s for a prop. Lots of lettuce which didn’t really help. Popeye’s makes a much better sandwich.
Had a side of the spaghetti.
I am a fan of hotdog spaghetti. Mom made it all the time when we were kids. Obviously I’m not Italian. But this was weird again. The sauce almost tasted like a watery bbq sauce. Sweet and a little smoky. There was a single piece of hotdog in my portion. Tasted really smoky too. That was the best part of the dish otherwise I am a once and done. I would put this on par with canned spaghetti.
Don’t see why this place appeals to anyone.
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I’ve had the fried chicken twice, and both times it was underwhelming, not terrible but not worth going back to when I have both Popeyes and Dave’s Hot Chicken close by. Their gravy ain’t too shabby tho
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