The Sparrow's Mill, Sydney

Across the road from World Square, The Sparrow's Mill is hidden amongst a row of shops, only to be distinguished by the persistent crowd waiting outside for a table. Normally I don't venture along this area and hence would have been lost if I hadn't noticed the crowd.

This restaurant was recommended by a fellow MSGer for its Korean Fried Chicken (a.k.a. KFC):

'KFC' Menu

From the available options, we ordered three different KFC flavours:

Spring Onion Chicken (H: $18; W: $34)

This one was voted the best chicken of the three - crispy chicken covered in a slightly sweet soy sauce and topped with a massive stash of sliced spring onions.

Sweet and Spicy Chicken (H: $18; W: $34)

Next was the sweet and spicy chicken - the sweet yet spicy (hot) sauce clings to the chicken with finger-licking goodness.

Snow Cheese Chicken (H: $18; W: $34)

This one was the least popular of the three - the chicken was coated in a cheese-y powder (reminiscent of Twisties) that just tasted a little weird ...

Seafood Pancake ($15)

The seafood pancake tasted as dull as it looked - it was mostly filled with vegetables and the occasional seafood piece. Nothing spectacular.

Stir-Fried Rice Cake with Red Chilli Paste ($13)

This dish is deceptive - there doesn't appear to be much rice cake and dried tofu strips when you first look at it but as you slowly went through the dish, you would uncover more rice cake and dried tofu within the spicy chilli sauce. Definitely not for those that can't stand chilli!

The Sparrow's Mill offers a variety of flavours for its crispy chicken and is popular amongst Koreans, judging by its customers. I would recommend their KFC but I wouldn't rate the overall dining experience as good as other KFC places like Beschico, Epping or Poong Nab Dong, Eastwood. Like Beschico, they don't offer the usual Korean side dishes unless you order actual non-chicken mains but I found it weird how they only provided us with plates and forks (no knives?) to eat their chicken pieces, which can be rather big and contains bones. Hence you end up resorting to eat with your hands and you discard the bone remnants into a tall metal container (resembling a chopstick holder) covered with a small plastic bag. The overcrowded environment inside the restaurant is also reminiscent of Chinese restaurants that attempt to squish in as many tables as possible.