No.1 Plus Chicken
Yangnyum chicken is the draw here, the sticky-sweet-spicy glaze that defines the classic chimaek order. The KT Togo is worth adding. The space runs small and fills up, so expect a wait on busy nights. Portions are generous enough that the price point makes sense once the food lands. Service tracks as attentive. This is a straightforward Korean fried chicken and beer spot, and it handles that format well.
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The full review
The signature glaze at Koreatown's benchmark chicken room, sweet heat over a double-fried crust that sets like glass.
The half-and-half order the record recommends, lacquered yangnyeom balanced against the quieter soy garlic.
The palate-reset side that turns a box of double-fry into a proper Korean chicken session.
Royal Lane is the spine of Dallas's original Koreatown, and No.1 Plus Chicken is the room the record keeps electing as its fried-chicken standard. The craft here is Korean double-fry: fat rendered out of the skin, a thin crust that sets like glass, and a finish in yangnyeom sauce that balances sweet heat against garlic without drowning the bird.
The format is chimaek, chicken with beer, and the small room fills accordingly on weekend nights. The move in the record is a half-and-half order, yangnyeom against soy garlic, with the pickled radish cubes doing palate-reset duty between pieces. Takeout runs heavy because the double-fry holds its crunch in the box, which is the entire point of the technique.
Reviews occasionally test the price against the Southern counters across town, and the comparison misses. This is a different craft with a different labor bill, and judged inside its own category, the record gives the Royal Lane operation the rank it has held for years: the benchmark Korean bird in Dallas proper.
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Order the chicken extra crispy and pair it with a hot soup for the perfect Korean comfort food combination.








