10 of the best fried chicken places in Singapore

There’s no food quite as sinfully delicious and effortlessly moreish as good ol’ fried chicken. Give us country-style Southern, sweet-spicy-saucy Korean, the spice-forward varieties popular across Southeast Asia, the ultra-crispy, uniquely Singaporean version — you name it.

So long as it’s tender, crunchy, juicy, and craggly to a fault, we’re golden.

Read on for Singapore’s best spots to get your fried chicken fix in all of its forms and presentations this International Fried Chicken Day.

Summer Hill

While it is usually Summer Hill’s signature roast chicken and weekend brunch trolley buffet that dominate social media feeds, the rustic French establishment also serves up a mean fried chicken that’s equally worthy of attention. 

The chook is brined for 24 hours, then drenched in buttermilk and deep-fried, yielding a crispy, home-style fried chicken that’s made all the more moreish with a splash of honey, herbs and browned butter.

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Daily Beer

Loosen up for the weekend with Daily Beer, a South Korean import dedicated to fried chicken, laid-back, neon-lit vibes, and ice-cold craft beers. The chain chose Telok Ayer, Singapore, as the staging ground for its first international outpost a couple of years back, and has since opened a second outlet at Chijmes along with a halal-certified, beer-free offshoot called Daily Chicken.

In other words: shorter queues and an easier time getting your hands dirty chowing down on crunchy, double-fried chimaek with frozen beers. Signature flavours include chicken given an extra-crispy cornflake coat, tossed in sweet garlic soy, or dressed in red with slatherings of their fiery “Angry Bird Sauce”. 

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Yardbird Southern Table & Bar

Yardbird Southern Table & Bar has got the art of fried chicken down to a science. For most diners, their Southern education should begin with Lewellyn’s Fine Fried Chicken, a bucketful of crispy, tender chicken hewn from a recipe that’s over a century old.

With a 27-hour brine, succulence is almost guaranteed, though guests are free to drizzle on some extra housemade hot honey for a true Southern experience.

Don’t forget to leave some room for a second act: chicken and waffles, served with spiced watermelon cubes, cheddar waffles, and oodles of bourbon maple syrup.

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BHC Chicken

Like Daily Beer, BHC Chicken landed in Singapore about two years ago as part of the great chimaek wave, and its key differentiator is flavours that go beyond classic K-nosh.

Beyond crispy chicken tossed with Korean soy sauce and honey, or its red-hot, spicy cousin, there are chicken bits dusted with cheese and veggie-flavoured seasoning (BHC calls this flavour Bburinkle) or given an Asian-style with a sweet-spicy, honey-based sauce and chillies.

The fried chicken is available boneless, with wings, or as is, and can be paired with an exhaustive range of Korean culinary staples — think tteokbboki, kimchi fried rice, chicken ginseng soup, and K-style cheesy corndogs.

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Black Tap

Whenever you need a break from Black Tap’s over-the-top crazy shakes and massive burgers, give their crispy chicken sandwich a try.

The standard version that’s permanently on their menu comes loaded with an American-Asian medley of buttermilk coleslaw, cilantro, spicy mayo, and Korean barbeque sauce — great enough on its own, but even better when the experience gets turned up to eleven with seasonal turns like a K-style spicy chicken burger when Seventeen was in town. 

The flavour du jour: a chicken sandwich layered with red pepper jam, white BBQ hot honey, and tangy pickles.

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Oven & Fried Chicken

There’s no big secret to how Oven & Fried Chicken is trying to stand out from its fellow chimaek contemporaries — the clue is in the name.

The hybrid concept, which launched in Singapore more than a decade ago, peddles an oven-baked variant of the traditional deep-fried Korean chicken for feasting without the guilt (or at least, a little less).

Even the fried version has a twist, switching out the usual wheat-flour coating for rice flour for a purported lighter, crispier bite. Our take: Get some of both, and see which you prefer.

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Sides

After opening to a frenzy last year, Nashville hot chicken brand Sides — fronted by United Kingdom YouTuber collective, the Sidemen — has expanded its footprint with a second outlet at Weave, a buzzy new dining and lifestyle cluster in Resorts World Sentosa. 

The menu remains focused as ever on its core offering — greasy, unfussy grub that’s just as good for a night out as it is to cure a hangover — with everything from a spicy chicken burger stacked with cheese, coleslaw and pickles to chicken tenders, wings, waffle fries, and milkshakes to wash it all down.

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Kko Kko Na Ra

There was a time when Kko Kko Na Ra wasn’t just one of the best places for Korean fried chicken in Singapore — it was the only place for Korean fried chicken.

In fact, they’ve been ruling the roost in the Lion City’s de facto Koreatown of Tanjong Pagar since as far back as 2008, and have staked their claim on being the pioneer not just of local chimaek, but also the ever-popular soy garlic flavour. 

The queues at peak hour today are just as long as we remember, so be sure to come down to get your fried chicken fix early to avoid a long wait — they’ve even got newfangled flavours like cheese sprinkle and mala now.

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Chix Hot Chicken

Chix Hot Chicken is a homegrown brand with a simple formula: seriously hefty slabs of deep-fried boneless chicken thigh that’s almost comically oversized, served on your pick of buttered slider buns or waffles, made seriously spicy with a dusting of housemade dry rub, customisable to six spice levels ranging from mild to atomic. Yes, atomic.

It’s ugly-delicious Nashville fried chicken sandwiches with a homespun spin for the Singaporean crowd, especially in its range of milkshakes, pairing flavours like Milo and gula melaka alongside the usual vanilla and cookies and cream.

Our advice? There’s no shame in bringing your own pair of plastic gloves.

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Jeffo’s

Setting aside famous restaurants and notable overseas chains, some of the most beloved fried chicken in Singapore can always be found at local bars, and no one has been doing it better, or longer, than Jeffo’s.

Its fried chicken wings are the stuff of legend, having been served since 2002, back when Jeffo’s was still in its old digs in the basement of Ming Arcade on Cuscaden Road.

The famous “Cuscaden wings” are still served today with the exact same recipe, pairing well-seasoned chicken wings deep-fried to a golden crisp with an addictively spicy housemade chilli sauce. 

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