Seoul Spoon is a chicken restaurant at 23/25 Porana Rd in Wairau Valley, on Auckland's North Shore, and it carries a near-perfect 4.9 rating on Google. Korean fried chicken — the style the name points to — is a craft of its own. Pieces are typically fried twice, leaving a thin, crackly crust that holds up under glossy sauces, from soy-garlic to the sweet-hot yangnyeom glaze. Because sauce softens the coating as it sits, the best versions are cooked to order and eaten soon after they land, often with pickled radish to cut the richness. A short wait at peak times is normal, and usually reassuring: it means nothing has been loitering under a heat lamp. For anyone working or passing through Wairau Valley's light-industrial stretch, a 4.9-rated chicken spot on Porana Rd is a handy detour on the way home.