Popular Taiwanese fried chicken shop Monga is set to open its first London restaurant in Chinatown at the end of the month.
The Asian fast food favourite is reportedly due to open a 30-cover site in Macclesfield Street on January 27. The restaurant will be the first European location for the Taiwanese snack connoisseurs, who boast nearly 40 sites across Taiwan and two in North America – one in Toronto and another in Texas.
Monga, which is named after the Taipei cultural district Wanhua, is famed for its unique fried chicken recipe, which sees the flattened chicken cutlets first marinated in honey, before being coated in a batter (rather than dry flour) for maximum crispiness.
Monga joins an influx of Asian-based restaurant chains to have opened in the capital in recent months, including dumpling sensation Din Tai Fung, katsu curry chain CoCo Ichibanya and Filipino fried chicken favourite Jollibees.
