We saw this on a YouTube program and decided to try it. We ordered online and then went to pick it up. It was ready went we got there. We ordered two orders of half half to sample the different flavors - fried, garlic soy, honey , and garlic soy spicy. The fried plain ones were really plain in flavor but chicken was nice and crispy, and all flavors were good . I appreciate the fact that there is no thick better. It appears to be just fried skin. The only criticism is that the meat can be a bit dry. read more

99 Chicken - Assortment of flavors garlic soy, honey garlic soy spicy and plain fried chicken. - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

Every one please be aware! Changed owner. Now with 1000 thousand rule. Tip auto added for party of 4 and infant. Tip included on my togo order. Vibe changed. Bad customer service. Staffs keep talking and never forcus to serve customer They required different things and shit. Been move to different states. Used to their regular customers since day open. Today is first time came back after move back to the bay. But guess this is last time. Sorry but you guys no longer 99 chicken read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

They forced us to order 10 pieces for our kids who do not eat that much. Seriously. They said there was an "incident" with the radish and rice bar. My guess is that someone took too much rice and radish. No wonder no one eats here anymore. I remember back in its heyday, there would be line outside this place. read more

We have been going to this place preCovid and have enjoyed their food. Since we haven't been there in a while decided to pass by last night. Big mistake. We got there by 845pm, they close at 930pm, and there were two groups still eating. Right away the lady at the counter said, we can only do takeout, so...ok. placed our order and waited. Food arrived around, 9 and my wife asked for some paper plates. Easy ask right? NO. She said that these plates are only for dine-in patrons only. We were so surprised since she was there one that told us to do takeout. Here's the kicker, because she saw my wife was upset, that she will make an exception. Two small paper plates. Other places would bend over backwards for customers but this establishment was being cheap over two small paper plates. read more

Ordered the half & half chicken with garlic soy and plain fried chicken. Both were crispy and juicy, with the garlic soy being sweet and savory. The plain fried chicken was simple and cooked well. The friend chicken doesn't feel heavy or too greasy. The staff was friendly, though they were a bit stingy with the utensils and napkins. They have a salad bar, but it feels monitored, as staff watch to make sure you're only grabbing what you'll eat. Plenty of parking, but stalls are tight and on the smaller side. Indoor seating is limited, so it's better suited for takeout or a quick dine in. read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

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A restaurant specializing in Korean Fried Chicken (KFC) that has been established for many years. It was very popular back then and known for its unique ordering style, where customers had to purchase a certain minimum amount. The restaurant is famous for its double-fried chicken and offers a variety of sauces to choose from. This was my second visit. I ordered chicken wings to go with mixed sauces for takeout, and the fried chicken was still crispy, flavorful, and yummy. The service was quick and efficient, and overall it was a satisfying experience. read more

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Back in the day, this was the place to eat. Your meal used to come with free rice and spicy sauce, and it felt generous and welcoming. Since the change in ownership, though, the place feels stingy and cheap, which really leaves a bad taste in your mouth. As for the food: the chicken is still excellent. Great flavor, juicy, and served hot straight out of the fryer. Easily a 10/10. The salad bar is basically the same, but now they'll charge you if you leave food on your plate, which feels unnecessary and petty. It's honestly sad to see how far this place has gone downhill -- from a family-owned spot to an owner who nickel-and-dimes customers for everything. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to charge you for breathing their air. That said, the service itself was okay. The ambiance has also changed. It's been modernized, but I personally miss the old look with the pictures -- it had more character. At the end of the day, I'd still recommend this place if you're coming strictly for the chicken. Just be prepared to deal with a very stingy owner. read more

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We just left without eating. The entire restaurant was empty. They required us to order more food than we wanted/could eat because they give free rice? $30 for 10 pieces of chicken is already high in my opinion. 5 pieces per person is REQUIRED! Kids included. Good luck with that policy read more

99 Chicken - #1 Ten Piece Fried Chicken $16.99 mix of drumsticks and wings - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

The lady serving us was very welcoming and kind! We ordered sauce, soy garlic, and honey chicken. Delicious!!! New fave Korean fried chicken spot. The chicken was flavorful and the skin was so so crunchy. Large pieces too. Def recommend! read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

We came here around 5 pm when they opened for their dinner service. It's in a plaza so there is plenty of parking. When we came, there was one other family there besides me and my girlfriend so it was actually not busy at all. Someone points us to a table and brings us menus at the table we sat at. When they take your order, they bring you disposable gloves, napkins, and plates to go to the salad bar (dine in only). For food, we got kimchi for a side, pretty good tasting kimchi. We got fries as well, just normal crinkle cut fries, nothing too special but is a good side dish. We got the combination chicken, pretty sure it's a mix of sweet sauce, soy sauce, honey, and original. Don't know if I'm completely correct but I'm guessing. Overall they were all so good, huge pieces of chicken by the way. The place is pretty average for the size and when it gets busy I could see how the wait times could be pretty heavy. Great for late night drinks with friends or so. Overall, this is a great Korean fried chicken spot, I recommend for people to check out if you want some! read more

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Great OG spot in the South Bay Large portions for a fair price (~$30 and serves two) with serve yourself veggies. Not all flavors are equally good, but I really like their sauces ones. Chicken was juicy inside unlike some other KFC places that make it really dry or sticky. read more

99 Chicken - Combination Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

I finally tried 99 Chicken and fried chicken is one of my guilty pleasures. This Korean fried chicken had a nice light batter and wasn't oily at all. We got the sauces on the side. The honey was thick and sweet which I liked, but my friends liked the spicy sauce more. There was a bunch of rules about the salad bar that I didn't pay attention to and I must have not broken any rules since nobody yelled at me! I will definitely comeback here to feed my fried chicken craving. read more

99 Chicken - Regular Fried Chicken & Soy Sauce Chicken (Garlic) - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

This place has been on my radar for a while. I wish I enjoyed it more. The restaurant has a parking lot in front but it does get really busy. There are a couple tables inside but if you have a large group you might need to wait a while. If you dine in, you get access to their unlimited salad bar. It includes rice, radish, broccoli, salad and some other stuff. You can't take stuff from the salad bar as part of your to go container if you have leftovers. You can also get stuff from the salad bar after they give you paper plates. After we ordered it took about 5-10 mins to get our food. They give you disposable gloves as well. Honey garlic chicken: 2/5, The chicken wasn't super crunchy. They also give a mix of drum sticks and chicken wings. Their sauce didn't have a strong garlic flavor. It just tasted sweet. I also wish there was more sauce. Korean sauce chicken: 2/5, the waitress described the flavor to be similar to gochujang. We got mild so it wasn't spicy at all. It had a slight sweetness. The overall flavor was just okay but it wasn't my favorite. These wings had more sauce but the wings were not crispy. Not sure if I'll be back. I think there are better Korean chicken spots in the area read more

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My friends and I came on Thursday during lunch, and we were seated right away. Chicken was good; my favorite flavor was the Honey Garlic. The original is quite bland like other reviews said. I just wish they can add more seasonings to it. Salad bar was also decent. I'm a bit disappointed that the complementary rice isn't available anymore. It's $3 a bowl fyi. read more

99 Chicken - Fried Chicken, Sauce Chicken, Honey Chicken, Soy Sauce Chicken (Garlic) - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

What I got: Honey Garlic Chicken : 3/5 Soy Sauce Chicken : 3/5 So I went here after going to the climbing gym, and I decided to try this place because my friend recommended it to me. So that being said, I felt like the flavoring for the place was all right. I think I prefer bbq chicken or vons. But that being said, the crispiness of the chicken was very light. It didn't feel super oily, which was surprising because it's fried chicken. The service was pretty good. I really enjoyed this place because they have a salad, rice and radish bar. Honestly, I'd come back for how much radish I was able to get. The ambiance was very casual. Nothing to write home about. I would prefer to just take out the chicken and eat it at home. But then you wouldn't get the unlimited radish. Would I come back again? Yeah, I think so, but I think I would first bring up bbq chicken and vons first lol read more

99 Chicken - Half honey garlic and half soy sauce - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

I remember coming back here 18 years ago when it was under the original owner. We came on Wednesday at 5pm-- there was no one there. We half original and half yam yam (sweet spicy sauce).. it was delicious. The original one was my favorite. They give you gloves and complimentary salad bar with rice, salad, mul (korean radish pickle) when you eat inside. The ambiance was cute and a slight oil smell lingering in the air, not stale, but def frying delicious chicken in there. Differing from the reviews, no rudeness. Would definitely come back. read more

Came on a Friday afternoon around 5. There was only one family in there other than us. We ordered the combination chicken combo it was delicious the spicy one was my favorite. The rest were crispy and delicious. They give you gloves and complimentary sides when you eat inside. The fries were also good. The ambiance was good they were sweet it felt like I was eating in someone's house. Definitely would come back for more read more

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The chicken wing sizes are decent. My partner and I got full after 3-4 pcs so the 10 pc is perfect for two. Theres unlimited rice and salad bar. Ketchup lovers should choose the red sauced flavors. I wasn't really a fan and the honey chicken is literally just fried chicken drizzled with honey. Would probably come back for the fried chicken to-go and make my own sauces at home. read more

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Hands down, one of the best fried chicken in the area, the chicken is large, seasoned well, always crispy and pipping hot, like literally what fried chicken is about. This is definitely portioned for take out if seating for one however it's definitely for a family night. Place is small with just enough seating read more

99 Chicken - Plain fried chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

Came in on a Friday night for the first place and waited a few min before being seated- there's a 5 piece min per person for chicken and unlimited salad/rice. Chicken took a while to come out but there was a big party at the same time as us. We ordered the soy garlic and honey chicken- the skin is crispy but flavor was quite bland. The honey chicken was coated in honey and the soy garlic didn't taste very garlicky. Overall it was an okay experience not sure if I would go out of the way to come back read more

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Sadly the ambiance feels like a shell of what it was. A while ago they made the change from their regular plates to paper plates. The most recent change is that rice is no longer included when dining in. It is $3 per bowl instead of self serve. It would be easier to stomach if each plate of chicken came with a bowl of rice as the goal of the change seems to be portion control. The paper plates are given when the chicken comes out, so you weren't able to get our veggies before then. Today the batter seemed a bit thinner than their usual crunchy batter but I'm not sure if that's a change or just something with today's batch. I enjoy the flavors (Soy Garlic and Spicy) at 99 chicken but I'd be lying if I said it's as good as it was a few years ago. It's definitely changing and reminded us that times have been tough on restaurants. read more

Pleased to say that the Korean fried chicken here still hits. Customer service is mid. They've gotten stingy with their salad bar and access is limited lol. They give you 2 paper plates for the salad bar when your order comes out to your table, so you don't start eating from it before your chicken comes out. The red sauce that used to be complimentary is now an extra charge (inflation). I love getting the red sauce and honey on the side, with the original chicken. So good! read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

I didn't really enjoy the food here. Personally I don't enjoy sweet chicken wings. We tried 3 different flavors and they all had a slight tinge of sweetness to them. None of them tasted like savory wings. I was hoping that through 3 different flavors that one wouldn't have that sweetness taste to it but that didn't happen. Additionally, you HAVE to order 5 wings per person so personally I wouldn't come back as someone who doesn't enjoy sweet wings! read more

Turned away by the server because my group (total of 5) only wanted to get an order of wings and dumplings and we were told it wasn't enough and we had to order a minimum of 5 wings each person. We were told that due to rush hour it was not possible to accommodate us. Rush hour where? The restaurant was nearly empty with many seats available and we weren't going to stay long, only 30 mins since we had a reservation at 6pm elsewhere. Totally would not recommend this place at all. Terrible service and terrible decor! By having this business model of ordering 5 wings per person, they will loose many customers. 0 stars read more

99 Chicken is the OG of the Korean fried chicken in the South Bay, and can't believe it's taken me so long to finally try it! Huge drums and not too overly sauced (minus the spicy version) and can really enjoy the fresh fried goodness of the chicken. Garlic soy is my favorite and it was really good! Also tried the honey one which wasn't too sweet! Great quality fried chicken! read more

99 Chicken - Garlic soy chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

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We dinned in and ordered the combination. It comes with 10 large pieces of chicken. I ate 4 pieces and was full. When you dine in, they will give you a plate for salad and rice when they serve your chicken. The salad bar has radish, spring mix, coleslaw, cabbage, jalapeño, and salad dressing. Water is self serve. Flavor wise, it was all pretty standard. The fried chicken (2.5/5) was crispy but doesn't have that usually airy crunchy texture I get from the fried starches when I eat Korean fried chicken. The meat was a bit bland to me, I felt like it could have been seasoned more. The honey chicken (2.5/5) is just the fried chicken with honey over it. The spicy chicken was more of a sweet and spicy sauce (2.5/3). The sauce chicken (1.5/5) was a bit sweet and tasted a bit like reduced ketchup. read more

99 Chicken - Combination Chicken (10 pc) - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

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The Original 10 piece can feed two at a great price. The to go service was about a 10 minute wait. It wasn't salty or seasoned enough for me but it comes with salt, pepper and radishes which is perfectly light and acidic to cut through the heaviness of the chicken. Clean inside and bathroom. Salad bar for dine-in only. read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

I went with some friends. They have an ordering minimum now. They also don't give out the place for the salad and rice bar till the chicken comes out now. The ordering minimum was kinda whack it was ok if your group could eat. But the mom made the party with the dad and multiple kids order like 2 fulls . Yea I love the chicken still but dam. A lot of changes. read more

Back around 2007, this place was hot hot. Before the Bay Area had other options like bb.q, Vons, BonChon, this was the place to get Korean fried chicken. But the ownership has changed, the vibe has changed, the prices and policies have changed... so a review update is long overdue. I know everything is more expensive now than 15 years ago, but it really felt like we were getting nickel-and-dimed here. Want rice with your chicken? $3 per serving. Need a takeout box for leftovers? 75 cents each. Repeated reminders not to waste the free salad... and don't even think about taking any to go. That's aside from prices doubling over the years... $29-32 for 10 pieces now, where it used to be $13-15 for the same. (I know, I know, inflation.) The salad dressing has been swapped out. It used to be an awesome miso dressing, now it's a similar-looking but very different peanut dressing. I don't remember the original fried chicken being so bland. Like completely unseasoned bland. I know they have the salt and pepper shaker, but the chicken has absolutely no flavor on its own. I guess it's fine? But again, now there's other nearby spots like bb.q and Vons that do it better. Hence, restaurant at half capacity on a Saturday at dinner time. I guess that's one silver lining, there used to be a wait for tables here. Glad we tried it again, but no need to ever return. Gone are the customer photos lining the walls (there's now a slideshow of these photos playing in the corner of the restaurant). Mounted just below the screen: a glowing 99 Chicken Mercury News article from 2007. It's too bad it's no longer that restaurant. I hope the original owners got a good price when they sold the business. Food: 3 stars Value: 2 stars Service: 3 stars Overall: 2.5 stars read more

This has been our favorite restaurant since 2015, would go almost every week and even when we moved out of the area would STILL talk about it and recommend it to everyone we know that lives in SJ and we would stop here every time we were going to visit family. Today we had to drive 2 hrs just to pick something up in Santa Clara and kept thinking "it's ok, now we get to eat 99 Chicken!" which I will sadly never be saying again. When we got there, we were extremely surprised how empty it was for a Saturday night and then after being seated we realized the rice cooker wasn't out anymore so we asked about the ayce rice and was told they no longer do that which is super disappointing. It ended up being $3 per bowl of rice and $3 for a side of the spicy sauce. Then we were told that we do not get our salad plates until the chicken comes which is weird. After getting the food, we did not get checked on once despite the restaurant being empty. Towards the end of the meal, I wanted to get an extra togo order of 10 pieces and had to awkwardly get up ask the lady there because she was sitting down eating with someone. The whole overall vibe of the restaurant feels so sad and greedy now. Very depressing to realize that would be our last time eating there. read more

Love coming here for some quality Korean fried chicken. There's not a whole lot of flavors compared to some other big kfc chains, but that's okay because they have the classics and that's all I really need. I recommend the soy garlic and the honey chicken! The chicken is well fried and the wings and drumsticks are huge. Crispy, juicy, and the glaze is super good. I recommend dining in so you can take advantage of their side bar too. It's nothing crazy- rice, salad, radish- but considering other chains will charge you for these basic sides this is still much appreciated. Will be back for all my kfc cravings! read more

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Chicken is always great here. This review is more about the service. I order 2 items Togo spending over 75.00 and asked for some jalapeño but was told it's No. I even offer to pay for it but they also said no. They have a sign saying it's only for dine in customers only but I just spent 75.00 on food and you can't give me some jalapeños?!!! Or let me buy it??? I don't know what I'm missing and what's the big deal here on letting me buy some. read more

99 Chicken - They aren't kidding when they say NO EXCEPTIONS. Spent 75.00 there asked if I can buy some jalapeño and was told I can not. - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

I used to love this place but customer service and vibe definitely changed :( They also don't offer free rice anymore. Love the chicken tho.

I have been going to this place for many years, but since ownership has changed, the place has been more money driven than the authentic mom & pop shop it used to be known for. The chicken has been more dry than usual, and the salad bar is very restricted. The owners will call you out for eating too much salad from their "self serve" salad bar. Now they require each person EVEN BABIES/small children to buy 5 pieces of chicken. This is so unreasonable. Rice is no longer free, and the ambiance of the shop itself is no longer as welcoming as it used to be. The chicken is still good but the down graded experience has affected my taste buds for this place. read more

99 Chicken - Half n half (honey chicken and spicy soy chicken) - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

order: soy garlic wings SOOO YUMMYYYY!!! ONE OF FAV KOREAN FRIED CHICKENN PLACESSS. haven't had in so long, have just been eating leftovers from my brother whenever i'm back the chicken pieces r huge and they r crispy!! sauce is soo declious, like not overpowering but also not bland idk perfect balance. they have like a topping bar with pickled radish, coleslaw, and salad. pickled radish was okay, not as crunchy as i liked but they tasted good. the dressing for the salad is soooo good, it's kinda sweet but idk i haven't tried smt similar. workers r super nice too, very sweet HAHAHA. overall super good and def recommend yummy rating: 10/10 read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

Hit up this SJ staple on a Saturday night around 7 pm. Place was pretty empty, but I've been told it typically gets busy. My boyfriend and I ordered the half honey garlic and half spicy korean fried chicken. I believe each flavor came with three drumsticks and two wings. Chicken 8/10--crispy but the texture felt a tiny bit off for some reason. If you're unsure what to get, honey garlic is a classic. The spicy Korean sauce has gochujang in it so it has a bit of a kick. Rice 11/10--maybe it was scooping it directly from the rice cooker or the large batch cooked, but this was the BEST rice I've ever had. Rice at home never tastes as good. Salad 9/10--fresh and crisp: sweet ginger dressing is an acquired taste Pickled radish 6/10--would've liked it sweeter and less salty Really affordable, hole in the wall vibes for some of the best comfort food. Would definitely come back, highly recommend. read more

99 Chicken - Korean Near Me - Santa Clara, California

Crunchy, saucy, and full of flavor! Best Korean chicken I've had. Our favorite chicken read more

So, I never got a chance to eat here because there's a hidden minimum orders for this restaurant. I went there around 7:20 to meet up with my friend with my cousin, three people. My friend ate dinner so we ordered one order of half n half chicken with large beer. Waitress said that if we ordered just one chicken (half n half chicken), the third person cannot eat the side dishes and asked us to order another chicken or 5 pieces of wings. We told the waitress that my friend will just drink beer and we will be ordering more beer. BUT, waitress said the restaurant doesn't allow that and insisted to order another chicken since the restaurant has a minimum order per person so my friend has to order another order of chicken or he cannot even drink a beer. We asked the waitress what if we ordered the French fries for my friend and the waitress said the french fries don't count as an order. Such a bad vibe with the waitress and the owner (or manager) of the restaurant, we decided to walk out. It was the worst experience I had. This place doesn't even deserve a star. read more

We used to come here often when the original owner was around, but everything has changed. Prices are extremely high now--a very small bowl of rice costs $3. They won't give you plates unless the chicken is ready, even if you already have other food on the table. There's also a minimum requirement of 5 pieces of chicken per person, and even 5-year-old kids count. Because we have young children, we were forced to order more food than we actually needed. The salad bar was almost empty..... we are ever disappointed. Overall, a really bad experience. We don't think we'll ever come back. read more

I've had 99 Chicken a few times, YEARS AND YEARS ago!! Prior to today's visit, I've only had it via takeout. TBH, I wasn't ever really blown away by the food or quality. The only thing that stuck out from my visits was the salad bar open to dine-in customers- generous on the owner's part. After a fun filled morning in Santa Clara, I made the decision to stop by here and give 99 Chicken another go. Our family and I walked in for lunch and were immediately seated after confirming our party size. The menu is pretty straightforward. Each meal offered consists of 10pc chicken and you decide on what sauce(s) you'd like. There are 6 sauces available on top of the original [naked]: Spicy, Sauce, Honey, Honey Garlic, Soy Sauce, & Korean. Additional 5pc orders are available for an additional cost. If you are indecisive like myself or would prefer an assortment of flavors, order #5 or 8 is the way to go. Lunch for us 2 adults, 1 toddler ended up being the Combination Chicken. Between our 10pc chicken we are given 4 different sauces [one being naked]. Food: The chicken is served fresh and oh so very HOT! Every piece was thoroughly cooked- still very moist inside and contained a nice crunch at its exterior. The original [naked] could have used some flavoring [or maybe some ketchup!!] and the spicy sauce vs sauce tasted the same without any bit of heat. Honey was my favorite of the 4 variations provided in the combination. Salad bar isn't anything overly exciting but you can't beat that FREE.99 cost. Pickled radish cubes are the only things I ate but there are leafy greens, broccoli, and jalapeños provided. Rice is also complimentary so the business asks that you are mindful in only taking whatever you can consume. 3.5 overall. Staff could be a bit more welcoming as opposed to just being very dry and short but I bumped the rating to a 4 just because 99 Chicken is so generous with the complimentary salad bar. read more

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