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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 7:13 pm
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Cheogajip which I believe is a chain, is a Korean chicken & pizza restaurant, there is one located in Niles, IL (8273 W Golf Road, Niles IL 60714).

Seeing as I love Korean food and could get miles for dining there (they used to be iDine but are no longer), I went.

The chicken is fried, I didn't think much of the breading, seemed good but nothing special. What is special is the mixture of a spicy/sweet sauce that they put on the fried chicken. The crispy skin, heat/sweet of the sauce and the earthy chicken flavor I enjoyed. Not great mind you, but seeing as I went back a few times over the past 1.5 years, good enough I guess.

On a side note, the pizza is Korean pizza and is horrible, as bad as pizza gets. The dough is not homemade, too thick, pasty, the toppings are items that apparently some Koreans love but I didn't (items like Korean sweet potatoes, lousy no flavor ham, corn)

I did try a bulgogi beef pizza but the bulgogi was so mild that it was not good at all.

edited to add: I did have my first Korean Chicken at another place in Chicago that korea71 recommended: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chica...tal-wings.html

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