Chicken.
6 rankings across San Francisco, built from 103 scored dishes. Pick the exact chicken you want — each ranking compares only that dish.
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Best Korean Fried Chicken 28 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 #1. Galbi Chicken (regular, 7-8 wings) K Soul Chicken · Polk Gulch / Nob Hill 9.4 High confidence -
Best Kung Pao Chicken 27 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 Henry's Hunan Restaurant (Natoma) · SoMa 9.0 High confidence -
Best Orange Chicken 25 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 Orange Chicken 陳皮雞 Dynasty Dumpling · Pacific Heights 8.9 Medium confidence -
Best Chicken Wings 9 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 Dry Fried Spicy Chicken Wings Superior Palace · Outer Richmond 8.9 Medium confidence -
Best General Tso's Chicken 9 dishes ranked Battered, deep-fried boneless chicken tossed in a sweet-spicy dark sauce, usually with dried chiles. The American-Chinese takeout benchmark.#1 General Tso's Chicken 佐宗雞 Osmanthus Dim Sum Lounge · North Beach 8.7 Medium confidence -
Best Chicken Over Rice 5 dishes ranked New York street cart and halal truck plate of chopped or grilled chicken over yellow rice, served with salad and white and hot sauce.#1 Chicken Over Rice Halal City · SoMa 8.7 Limited data