Super Fried Chicken

Nothing like a chicken box from the market when you really need some crunchy, meaty, deep-​fried loving. I head straight to the back of the market to Super Fried, get some dark meat pieces and some deep-​fried chicken livers. Coating is pretty well-​seasoned, meat isn’t like juice-​squirting moist, but I think that’s fine. They always pile it up for me and it’s piping hot and cheap, really, one of the best things about Baltimore.

Walking through the Lexington Market, I passed by so many different booths before stopping at Super Fried Chicken. I was buying lunch for a picnic with my guy and he loves fried chicken.
I was stopped when I saw a Chicken Breast and Potatoes special for $ 5. What a deal. The chicken looked great, a nice big one with a spicy hot sauce added to it. I added salt, pepper and old bay to the potatoes with a bit of ketchup.
I brought the lunch to the Inner Harbor and my guy was really happy. A crabcake from Faidley’s and fried chicken with potatoes!

3.5 stars really, folks. I realize Lexington Market is only slightly south of the Mason-​Dixon line, but man — I don’t care WHAT southerners claim, the best fried chicken south of that line is made by Koreans!!!
A weekly exercise for me when I lived in Charm City was to come down to Lexington Market on a Friday afternoon, get a half dozen fried wings from the good folks at Super, have them douse them with hot sauce (even the «spicy ones», they LOVED it!), have them wrap the suckers up in foil so they’d marinate in the hot sauce, get my 40 oz draught beer from Faidly’s, my Evening Sun (yeah, it was THAT long ago) and then go to the upper level to chill, drink beer, eat spicy hot wings, read my Sunpaper and watch all the people milling about one floor below.
They’re still in business so I guess that practice is still possible (though I’ve discovered the big beer is no longer available due to drunken fights that have broken out in the market — shame, and the Evening Sun is also no longer), and I sadly long to still practice this ritual every Friday that I am in NYC.
If you’re fortunate enough to live in Baltimore or happen to be visiting there and you DON’T visit Lexington Market and you DON’T indulge at Super Fried Chicken while you’re there, you’ll be a darned fool. Also, don’t be seduced by the other Korean fried chicken impostors! Super is about three stalls down the north thoroughfare from Lexington’s supermarket. You’ll see a big sign: «SUPER FRIED CHICKEN». The necks, backs, quarters and halves are also excellent, but the wings, both small and large are my all time favorites. Tell ‘em to lay on the hot sauce!

Super Chicken is another Korean owned fry joint in Lexington Market. It wasn’t as busy as the other places in there so I figured to give it a try. The honey-​bbq chicken was sweet, flavorful, and yummy. Unfortunately it was kind of dry. Being under those heat lamps all day will do that to food. Thick cut fries were alright. I got «lassa hasauce» (lots of hot sauce) on top. No seating of course so you have to go upstairs or eat at a standing counter on the first floor. Super is a touch cheaper than Park’s and no lines. Good in a pinch.