In the press

How reporters in the US and the UK covered the robot
in our kitchen and the chef behind the recipe.

101 Chicken

July 19, 2024 · Anthony Johnson

Robot chefs are cooking food at 101 Chicken, a Korean restaurant in Fort Lee

WABC visited the Fort Lee store to film the robot arm working the fryer. Owner Paul Choi, a foodie with a computer science background, spent two years testing the system in Korea before bringing it to New Jersey. People still make the batter and the sauces. The robot handles the frying.

It's not an illusion or a joke. A robot arm is the head chef at a new Korean fried chicken location in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Read it on ABC7 New York

July 2024

A robot cooks your fried chicken at this inventive new NJ restaurant

New Jersey's largest news site covered the Fort Lee opening as one of the state's more inventive new restaurants, built around a fryer that runs on a program instead of a timer and a pair of eyes.

Read it on NJ.com

July 22, 2024

Robot chefs are cooking food at 101 Chicken, a Korean restaurant in Fort Lee, New Jersey

The WABC report went out on CNN Newsource and ran on affiliate stations well beyond the New York market, including Colorado.

Read it on KRDO

July 2024

Robot chefs are cooking food at a Korean restaurant in New Jersey

Another CNN Newsource pickup, this one in Wisconsin. The Fort Lee kitchen ended up on local news in states most of our customers have never driven through.

Read it on News 8 Now

October 2, 2024

Opening alert: 101 Chicken, Ridgefield Park

Bergen County's dining newsletter announced the second New Jersey store, three months after Fort Lee opened, and ran through the menu beyond the chicken: sandwiches, ddukbokki, and the sides.

Read it on Boozy Burbs

Chef Byungtae Ahn

After winning Netflix's The K-Chicken War, the chef ran the Oh Gee pop-up at the Hoxton, Shoreditch in the autumn of 2024. The three-month residency was extended to the end of the year.

October 1, 2024 · Catherine Hanly

Test driving Oh Gee, award-winning Korean fried chicken in Shoreditch

London's restaurant guide ate through the Oh Gee residency at the Hoxton, Shoreditch and wrote up the 101 potato crisp chicken bun with hot honey. The run was booked for three months and got extended to the end of the year.

Read it on Hot Dinners

August 19, 2024 · Catherine Hanly

Award-winning Korean fried chicken Oh Gee is popping up at the Hoxton Shoreditch

The announcement piece, written as chef Byungtae Ahn was opening the robotic kitchen in New Jersey and preparing the London pop-up in the same season.

Read it on Hot Dinners

September 18, 2024

Oh Gee review, it's a proper bit of fun

A London review that spent its time on the batter: crunchy, craggy enough to hold a glaze, and the potato crisp coating you can actually taste. Sweet and spicy, soy honey, and supreme all got a run.

Read it on London on the Inside

September 25, 2024 · Ella Kirby

5 minutes with Byung Tae Ahn

An interview with the chef during the London residency, on what he wanted Londoners to understand about real Korean fried chicken and what he thinks the winning ingredient actually is.

Read it on Brummell

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