Arisun Express

The only thing I can think of that distinguishes this outlet to the original is probably the small take out options. I’m pretty sure the original does take away as well though so I’m still not sure what’s the Express for?
The menu appears to have everything that the original does — from fried chicken to hotpot.
Food is great but a little more exxy than the other Korean joints around Pitt Street.

This is a great place with a fun buzzing atmosphere of world square. The customer service is attentive and the fried chicken is absolutely delicious. I highly recommend getting a jug of soju. It’s fantastic. Thank you Zomato for inviting me to try this place out.

Another late night fried chicken option directly across from Hot-​Star.
This place takes it to the next level as they also sell alcohol (which is also cheap like most Korean restaurants are) too and open till 3am as most Korean restaurants do.
So it makes a great option for post-​midnight noms which is slightly a bit better than KFC (… KFC doesn’t have a liquor license for starters), while washing the post-​midnight noms down with soju or beer (or mixing the two like Koreans do).
Also unlike Hot-​Star, this place has limited seating to dine in (and probably how to get the alcohol «officially» too). Cards are also accepted so it’s a bit more «legitimate».

‘What we got here is… failure to communicate’
I found it unsettling having to yell at a timid Korean girl with limited English so she could hear me over Taylor Swift at full volume screaming from a speaker placed exactly at the level of my left ear and only one metre away.
Happily there was a picture of my desired purchase, crumbed calamari so I simply pointed at it and off she went. Without any idea what was happening I stood there wishing that Mr and Mrs Swift had never met until she came back with, you guessed it… a beeper!
I found a seat in Liverpool Lane, in an area barricaded off like an airport queue, as far away from Ms Swift as possible but still hopefully in range of my beeper.
Korean fried Chicken the shop said. It also said some ridiculously silly things in much the same way as many Japanese T shirts say silly things. Like describing chook as ‘trendy’.
In my book, if its crumbed or crispy fried its good. Directly across the road is Hot Star Taiwanese Chicken. Around the corner is Lord of the Fries. Only five feet away is Bao Bun which crumbs everything — I walk past that place quickly in case my briefcase gets crumbed. Upstairs at the holy Tabernacle of Asian goodness (Din Tai Fung) one can get crispy fried Chicken, Pork and Calamari that are the subject of odes. There is a queue of poets lined up every day.
So this place, which is only two weeks old, has some competition.
And tharrr she… beeps.
And I get… a cup o’ squid?
Yep, straight out of The Jerk (‘Cup o’ Pizza’) these guys have popped my Calamari into a cup!
No problem, I think to myself. Ah! chilli sauce in a plastic squeezy bottle, that’ll be good.
You know how sometimes those plastic sauce bottles get a blockage of coagulated sauce in the nozzle? Well this bottle was half blocked, with the result being that when I squeezed it, a little went in my cup but most of it squirted out at a 90* angle, all over the timid Korean girl.
So anyway, the cup o’ squid?
Really really good and only $ 7. Could have used some more sauce but there was no way I was going back to that counter.
A welcome addition to Liverpool Lane, but I wish they would turn the music down.