AWESOME!!! I can't believe I ate food at a place named after one of my favorite childhood cartoons... The song was running through my head the whole time we were there - which was actually kindof of fun!
To be honest, when we were discussing where to eat and my husband suggested Super Chicken, I thought he was yanking my chain. It would not be unlike him and it would make him really happy to fool me into believing we were going to eat at a cartoon. Color me surprised when we actually walked into a place named Super Chicken! The first thing I noticed was all the movie posters on the walls - they have all the cheesy chicken movies ever made, but nothing from the actual Super Chicken cartoon, which is even funnier. They also have a big tv on the wall, which when we went in was playing a spanish soap opera of some sort which captivated our entire group - more on that later.
I was surprised they had table service - but that was great. We got our menus and took our time deciding. Everything looked great, but when you aren't necessarily sure of all the items on the menu, you want to take it slow. ;)
Between the five of us, we ordered a variety of dishes from the standard 1/4 chicken to the more adventurous Peruvian dishes. No one was so bold as to order tripe or anything truly Peruvian like that. We also ordered two Peruvian drinks - Chicha, I think was one of them, and a tamarind one. I apologize for not remembering the names of everything - I'll get a to go menu and edit later. The chicha was really good - I loved it. I wasn't such a big fan of the tamarind, but the folks who ordered it loved it.
We sat and had a good time watching the spanish soap opera while we waited for our food - some chick was in a coma and a gorgeous guy kept coming in, holding her hand and staring at her. We kept yelling for her to wake up, but it never happened. We enjoyed ourselves immensely - not sure I understood the point of all that drama with him repeatedly staring at her in bed, but it was fun for us. The guy came out and asked if we wanted him to change the channel, and we all shouted NO!!! He laughed and we just kept watching, entranced.
When our food came, we dug in lustfully. It was awesome! The dish I ordered was a traditional Peruvian thing with strips of steak with onions and tomatoes over rice. I ordered a side of beans and mixed them with the rice. The beans were a tad bland, but a shake of salt took care of that. The beef mixture was excellent! Seriously one of the best meals I've had in a while. Not exactly top grade beef, but still, truly tasty. The dish comes with fries, but I had requested casava (yucca) instead - is there anything better? YUMMY!!!
The folks who ordered chicken were raving as well. Juicy and tender were the comments being repeated. It looked really tasty. Next time I'll try that.
We also got two appetizers, which were delivered along with our entrees. One was a plate of sortof chicken tenders, small bits of chicken breaded and fried. Sounds standard, but did not taste that way. I don't know what they put on these things, but they were incredibly tasty! Some sort of broth or sauce or something that did not make them soggy at all but seriously gave them a unique tang - so good!
The other appetizer was not really to my liking, but several others in our party loved it. It was three halves of a boiled potato slathered in some sort of cheesy spicy sauce and served with a sliced boiled egg and some olives on the side. I found it rather bland, but two of the others were fighting over it.
So at this point the chick in the soap opera is critical - we all stop eating to watch them pull the plug. The good looking dude is all upset, no one is talking, we are yelling for her to either wake up or die, it's basically mayhem all around us. Then they go to commercial - and it's over!!! We'll never know!!! Did she die? Was there a miracle and she opened her eyes and came back to her latino stud? Did she linger and let him keep coming back to her bedside to hold her hand and stare at her longingly? How will we live with the tension of never knowing her fate? So very very sad...
Thank god they had plantains to drown our sorrows in. We downed two orders of them and wished we had room for more. TASTY!!!
This place is awesome - you should all go there and eat all their food and try to find out what happened to the chick in the coma and PLEASE - let me know. We are on the edge of our seats!
(UPDATE: I had taken some of my dinner home because there was just too much food to finish, Today I heated it up and ate it for lunch. AWESOME!!! This stuff is even great as leftovers!) read more