Game day with BB.Q Chicken

Wait, Makiya, I'm ready to go. Oh, I am too. Listen, if you're looking to switch up your game day spread, look no further. BBQ Chicken is bringing Korean fried chicken to the tailgate table with flavors ranging from sweet and savory to spicy and extra crunchy. Our goal is to try them all. This is Soya, an assistant brand manager. This is Esther from BBQ Chicken. Two locations where you are, Esther, which are Tyson's and Ashburn, right? Yes, we are from Tyson's and Ashburn location. But we got 13 locations across the DMV, right? All the way from Woodbridge to D.C. to Silver Spring, Maryland. Okay, so here's my first question, Suhan. Soyona, I'm going to ask you, first of all, BBQ, always thought it was barbecue. It actually stands for something else, right? Yeah, it stands for best of the best quality. Now it all makes sense. Now it all makes sense. So that being said, you guys have a lot of locations nationwide. You mentioned yesterday you have 13 of them here in D.C. What are some of the things that we talked about this with tailgating? What are some of the things that make Korean fried chicken special, first of all? and then what would make that good for tailgating well first of all korean fried chicken is a lot crispier and less greasy than american fried chicken um and it's also our bbq chicken is marinated for two days so it's packed with a lot of flavor as well and it gets a lot crispier too today we brought a lot of flavors for you guys as well um but what's better than chicken and beer for tailgating and for game days right it doesn't get better than that you all have a couple of flavors here, and this is a new one that you're offering. Yes, we brought two new flavors today. Awesome. The one that you pointed out just now is going to be our Boom Chicken, but we really want to show you guys our Field Crunch. Okay, all right. Walk us through the process. Let's work on this together. I'm going to step out of the way right here, unless you want me to get involved. So, Field Crunch is going to be a collaboration with Felix from Stray Kids right over here. We love Felix. We have the chicken box, and also the posters right here. Wait, those are available at the stores? Yeah. There you go. That's going to sell a lot of chicken right there just in itself. Right. Pretty packaging. Okay, so what's happening right now? What kind of sauce are we looking at here? So this is our caramelized onion sauce. So it has that sweet and savory flavor all packed into it. Now she's going to go ahead and hand toss everything for you guys. And all of our chicken needs are hand tossed or hand coated. I like the paddles that we're using here. And you can really hear that crispness in there as well. How do you all get the extra crunch and crisp in your chicken? Is it double fried or how do you accomplish this? So all of our chicken is marinated in two days. It's not double fried, but some of them are double fried as well. This one specifically, we're going to add the cereal crunch on top, so it gives that extra crunch and flavor for you guys, too. Oh, I was like, so this is an extra crunch on top of the crunch that we're already getting from the chicken itself. So, what do you see as the secret to this? You guys are so successful nationwide with all the locations. What is it that you think really sets you apart? I believe that we have something for everyone. So, we have like 14 flavors so far. So we have something from sweet to very spicy. So there is something for everyone, and it's really good for the tailgating watch party as well. Like you mentioned, I mean, what goes better than chicken and beer together? But that's not all I see on the counter here. Walk me through some of the other items that you have in addition to the fried chicken. So other than fried chicken, we also offer Korean food. We have tteokbokki here, which is a Korean classic, and kimchi fried rice, which is also a Korean classic. Now, other than Maekju, which is beer, we also brought our sojus for all different flavors. We also like to mix soju and Maekju as well. Really? Yes. Okay, that's an interesting mix. Next time you guys should try it. I think that sounds like an invitation that we want to take advantage of. I'm just looking at the wings over here. You have a glove? Yeah, I put the glove on not to prepare food, but to eat the food, Mikiya. I'm just going to grab one in just a second. Is that how you would present it, like if we came to the restaurant? Yes, so if you came to the restaurant, you will see it like this. If you order it, you'll get it in a Felix box. Okay, I like it. Nice. Shout out to Felix. Straight kids. Now you just put this one together, which looks amazing, and I'm going to grab a piece of this, Makiya. You can do it the same. The other one you said is a mixture of four cheeses, right? So what are some of the more popular flavors, I guess, that people will typically go for? So honey garlic is our best seller. And this golden original, what we have right here, is always the classic one. We also have a traditional galbi flavor right here. Oh, wow. How did you all come up with this concept right here? You said this tastes like Cheetos. Right, so it's like a four cheese seasoning, so it's like a Gouda, parmesan, blue cheese, and cheddar. And this bone chicken is really popular, it was really popular in Korea. It sold one million chickens in 100 days. Wow. So. This is delicious. Not gonna lie, it's very, very good. To me, the flavor, it's got a lot of layers of flavor to it, which I think is great. the sauce that goes with it but that crunch on top of the crunch takes it to the next level, right? A lot of texture, a hint of the heat, I'm tasting it here, a little bit of heat in there, but not enough to overpower, just enough for the flavor in there, so 13 locations in the area. Where are we covering the whole area? Maryland, DC, Virginia, yeah. so we do have one down in Woodbridge as well, so all the way down south we have a couple in DC and we also have a couple around here in Silver Spring, Maryland, again we are from Tysons and Ashburn, so please come say hi, um, but we do have locations all around, all right awesome, see you at one of those two locations or hit one of the other 11 that are in the DMV, yep, I'm gonna finish this, trust me, by the time we come back this is gonna be gone, cheers, cheers to you, thanks for coming down to share your story, uh, there's the information if you want to find the location closest to you or follow them on social media, I can say this, look, at the pretty pictures online but you got to go taste it to get the real deal, good stuff, thanks, We'll see you in a minute.