Chicken.

5 rankings across the South Bay, built from 71 scored dishes. Pick the exact chicken you want — each ranking compares only that dish.

Best Korean Fried Chicken 23 dishes ranked Double-fried Korean chicken - thin, shatter-crisp crust, glazed to order in soy-garlic, sweet-and-spicy yangnyeom, or served half-and-half. Bone-in pieces, wings or boneless, distinct from American fried chicken and from naked buffalo wings.

#1 Crispy Fried Chicken Vons Chicken | Sunnyvale · Sunnyvale 9.1 High confidence
Best Kung Pao Chicken 23 dishes ranked Diced chicken stir-fried with dried red chilies, peanuts or cashews and Sichuan peppercorn in a savoury-sweet-spicy glaze. Ranked across both builds - the sweeter American-Chinese takeout plate and the numbing Sichuan gong bao ji ding.

#1 Kung Pao Chicken Hong's Gourmet · Saratoga 9.0 Medium confidence
Best General Tso's Chicken 12 dishes ranked Battered, deep-fried boneless chicken tossed in a sweet-spicy dark sauce, usually with dried chiles. The American-Chinese takeout benchmark.

#1 45 General Tso's Chicken 左宗棠鸡 Home Eat 汉家宴 - Milpitas · Great Mall 7.6 Limited data
Best Orange Chicken 8 dishes ranked American-Chinese orange chicken: battered, deep-fried boneless chicken tossed in a sweet-tangy orange sauce, served as a named entree or over rice. Rank the named plate at a specific restaurant, not the restaurant overall. General Tso's and sesame chicken are different builds; Hunan-style orange peel chicken counts only when the menu shows the same battered-and-sauced dish.

#1 Chicken w/ Orange Sauce Jade China · San Jose 6.3 Limited data
Best Chicken Wings 5 dishes ranked A plate of cooked chicken wings — buffalo, dry-rub, or Vietnamese fish-sauce styles — as a named menu item at a specific restaurant.

#1 Bone-In Wings Fire Wings · Little Saigon / East San Jose 8.3 Medium confidence