HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – You can find a taste of Korean soul\/Seoul in Honolulu. <\/p>\n
Anthony Han, owner of Soul Chicken, and his son Aiden joined HNN\u2019s Sunrise to showcase their Korean fried chicken and side dishes.<\/p>\n
Han immigrated from South Korea in 2000 and attended Kapiolani Community College (KCC). The serial entrepreneur is also a self-taught developer of point-of-sale platforms and karaoke systems for local Hawaii restaurants and bars. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going to open a Korean franchise, but the deal failed right after we signed the lease. So I just studied myself, made chicken every day for six months. We call it Soul Chicken because we wanted to put the soul of Korean flavor into it,\u201d Han said.<\/p>\n
Han says he makes everything fresh when you order and doesn\u2019t double-fry, so the food is not greasy.<\/p>\n
Soul Chicken\u2019s first location at 1095 Dillingham Blvd. in Kalihi is still open, but has been impacted by ongoing Skyline construction. They opened a second location inside the Midtown Eats Food Hall<\/a> at 1515 Liona St. in Keeaumoku, on the ground floor of The Park, near Walmart. <\/p>\n Midtown Eats has 14 food vendors and a bar, serving everything from sushi, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, ramen, Middle Eastern, desserts, sugar cane juice, even gelato. The hall is open daily 10:30 a.m. \u2013 9 p.m. <\/p>\n The K Park Bar is showing all the World Cup games and is open Mondays\u2013Thursdays 3\u201310 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. \u2013 midnight, and Sundays 11 a.m. \u2013 10 p.m. Free validated parking available in stalls marked \u201cCommercial\u201d on levels 1 to 2.5 of the parking structure. Enter from Liona St or Rycroft St.<\/p>\n Learn more at soulchickenhawaii.com<\/a> or midtowneatshi.com<\/a>. Or follow Soul Chicken on Instagram @soulchickenhawaii.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – You can find a taste of Korean soul\/Seoul in Honolulu. Anthony Han, owner of Soul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33498,33497,33495,33494,33496,23317,171,4974,17201,33493,6975,33492],"class_list":["post-59317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-chicken","tag-eat-local","tag-food-court","tag-food-hall","tag-foodie","tag-fried-chicken","tag-korean","tag-korean-food","tag-local-business","tag-midtown-eats","tag-small-business","tag-soul-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}