Late Korean Fried Chicken at OZ, City Centre, Pinetree Way, Vancouver BC

After Dark

Late Korean Fried Chicken at OZ

Double-fried yangnyeom chicken and soju near Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, when everything else in the area has gone dark.

City Centre, Pinetree Way

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The date

OZ Korean Cuisine has read its moment perfectly: keep frying while everything else around Lafarge Lake has gone dark. The double-fried chicken lands shatter-crisp in soy-garlic or sweet-spicy yangnyeom, side dishes arriving unasked, with soju to sustain the conversation. The room is bright, loud and unfussy, exactly what post-movie hunger demands. Order both sauces and settle which one actually wins.

How to do it

It's in the Pinetree Way strip in City Centre, a five-minute walk from Lafarge Lake and Lincoln SkyTrain, so it pairs perfectly as the late stop after a lakeside lap or a Town Centre Park concert. Order the half-and-half fried chicken so you get both soy-garlic and sweet-spicy yangnyeom in one basket, and add a soju to share. Kitchen runs till midnight every night, so don't write off a 10 pm plan, and don't miss the cheese corn or tteokbokki as a side, the two things regulars always add to a chicken order.

What to wear: smart casual

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Duration
About an hour
Best time
Evening to late night
Per person
$$
setting
Indoor
neighbourhood
City Centre, Pinetree Way
cuisine
Korean
best season
Year-round

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