Thanks for the review! I went in again on a weeknight and tried the KFC. I had “Some Chicken” ($19), which was basically half a chicken, fried. I got it with all three sauces - “O.G. Recipe (seaweed salt),” “Sweet & Spicy (gochujang and honey),” and “Garlic/Soy (ginger and roasted garlic).”
Like you I also thought the seaweed salt coating was the best. Nice salty umami flavor. The other two kind of tasted similar - sweet and with a little spice in the gochujang one.
On the whole the KFC I had was OK but had a few issues:
The chicken’s skin could have been crispier. Was not as cracking as some other KFC that I’ve had. More of a problem on the sauced pieces which is to be expected.
The chicken wasn’t hot, more like room temperature - seemed like it had maybe been sitting around for awhile. Could also be why the skin wasn’t very crispy.
It had some pickled radish cubes interspersed which was nice.
They’ve been open about a month so maybe there are some consistency issues. The queso with chicharonnes dish looks good, maybe will give that a try. You are right that they are perhaps not trying to be an “authentic” Korean restaurant, and that is fine (although interestingly in this year-old article the chef does seem to claim authenticity http://blog.eatfeastly.com/2016/12/08/foxsister/). He used to be chef de cuisine at Slanted Door - maybe they are trying a little to be a Slanted Door but with Korean food? Based on my two visits though I haven’t been very impressed with the food regardless of authenticity. They don’t seem to be hurting for business however from what I saw. There aren’t many (any?) other Korean options in the Mission.
Charging $8 for banchan is still lame.
Some Chicken
