The concept for Gami Chicken and Beer is simple. Free-range chicken is marinated in seven herbs and spices, Korean-style, and cooked fresh to order. Pick from one of four tantalizing sauces – including sweet chili and soy garlic – and wash it down with a specially-designed Thunder Road Brewery beer on tap. Choose chunks of boneless breast and thigh, crisped to perfection, or come hungry and order the whole chook cut and arranged in crunchy pieces.
Sides include a Kimchi pancake or American-style corn-cheese, which is as it sounds: corn kernels slathered in cheese and grilled into an oozy delicacy.
The Carnegie outpost, just a stone’s throw from the train station, is where it all began in 2006. The appetite for crunchy fried chicken minus the oily residue keeps growing, and the humble first store has now turned into a franchise, with more than 10 locations across Melbourne and Perth.
While you might be eating with your hands, dining in still means table service with a smile. Staff are in charge of music, so depending on the crowd it might mean love song dedications or Friday night K-Pop. The store has an industrial feel complete with a bright yellow container masking the kitchen, and colourful wooden tables.
And while there’s no direct translation, Gami loosely means “beautiful taste”. Beautiful taste, indeed- it’s some of the best fried chicken going around.
Gami Chicken and Beer Locations
Healeys (CBD)
Whitford (Perth)
Shafto (Perth)
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