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No. 67 in the world · November 2026

Good Friend Chicken

Chinatown · London, United Kingdom

Taiwanese fried chickenNo. 67
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The Taiwanese popcorn chicken

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Taiwanese salt-and-pepper popcorn chicken with fried basil

Taiwanese salt-and-pepper popcorn chicken with fried basil

1 hr marinate, 25 min · 4. The night-market fried chicken (yan su ji): five-spice marinated thigh in a coarse sweet-potato-starch crust that fries up spiky, tossed with fried basil and a peppery salt. Cut a whole thigh flat instead and you have the giant Hot-Star cutlet.

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