What Is Chicken Crack? (and how do I get some)

Where do you get it? What is the real name?

The path to chicken crack is both eternal and internal, grasshopper. Your mantra:

"Tony's (Chef's) Three Chili Chicken"

your place for meditation:

Lao Sze Chuan, Chinatown

many thanks

Though, if you go, realize that this path can be obfusticated by language barriers and a busy kitchen; a couple people missed it entirely on Christmas Eve, and we narrowly missed it again a few days later by trying to order it by name. (Our savvy waitress came back to confirm if we really wanted Dry Chili Chicken and thus avided a potential crisis, as my brother had arranged the trip expressly for Tony's Three Chili Chicken) Use the numbers on the menu.

OK we are making a Chinatown run this evening. I am basing our menu on some pics from the Christmas Eve dinner, so I just wanted some clarification if possible. We do not like seafood, so does anyone know if the szechuan wontons or chengdu dumplings are fishy? They look pretty tasty in the pics. Also, there is a pic of stir fry noodles. What is the actual name of the dish? I couldn't find it on the menu worded like that. We are also going to order Chicken Crack an sesame chicken. Any help would be great!

The szechuan wontons and chengdu dumplings are not at all fishy, it's a pork filling with a spicy soy/ginger/garlic/szechuan pepper sauce. Note that they are somewhat spicy, so they might not be good for the more heat averse guests.

I want to say the name of the noodle dish was "fried rice noodle with chicken", but it might have been the "fried noodle with chicken".

Thanks!!

I want to say the name of the noodle dish was "fried rice noodle with chicken", but it might have been the "fried noodle with chicken".
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They are both on the menu!

JeanneBean wrote:They are both on the menu!

The noodle pictured below, from the Christmas '08 thread, does not appear to be rice noodle, my guess the name is Fried Noodle with Chicken.

Picture courtesy of Stagger

Well we survived our trip to Chinatown, but our food did not survive the night!



We swooped in from Niles for carry-out. I was hoping the food would hold up for the 35 min. drive home.

First of all, I have not been through Chinatown in about 10 years. Wow, what changes! It looks really great! We located the restaurant with no probs and I hopped out while Hubby and kids waited in the car.

The smell on the ride home was crazy!! We almost got herded onto the 290 ramp and Hubby wasn't concerned (due to the high traffic) He was ready to get the food out and start eating. But we were able to stay on the right expressway and we cruised home.

We started with the Chengdu dumpling. Now, I like hot food, but I find that when it gets too hot then that's all I taste. Not in this case. They were really hot but sooooo flavorful. Porky goodness! Right texture dumpling dough.

Then we moved onto the fried noodles with beef. My three year old whose favorite food is Townhouse crackers ate about a third of it! Hubby and I quickly finished the rest. Once again the noodles were the perfect consistency and the sauce had many flavors that combined for a tasty dish. Plus they didn't chaunce with the beef.

Our last 2 dishes were Sesame chicken and Chicken Crack. We always try the sesame chicken at a new Chinese place because our previous chicken crack-like dish was the sesame chicken at this little place in Skokie called Imperial China. It was a strange place where the owner named Desmond was this tiny Chinese guy who always wore a leather vest and had a Chinese afro? He would set up a lunch buffet that was this tiny cart of food, but it was the best we've ever had. They are now closed and I swear I saw Desmond working at my Menards!

But I digress...
The sesame here was VERY good. But now onto the Chicken Crack!!!
OOOOOMMMGGGG! I can't stop thinking about it!
It actually had a somewhat similar texture to Imperial China Sesame Chicken. It actually retained it's crispiness for the ride home!

I am so glad we tried this place!!

my personal chicken crack remains the gang pong chicken wings served @ Great Sea...

per GWIV's pix:


currently, my heart for Korean fried chicken belongs to Kyonchon:





it's akin to ... Pollo Campero... from Korea. the taste is close to gang pong chicken wings from Great Sea, but spicier, crispier, drier. What I love is the completely seemless transition from crispiness to meat in Kyochon's chicken. almost magical.

And hello from Los Angeles...