Check-in Bites is a newly opened Korean-style chicken restaurant on View Road in Wairau Valley on Auckland's North Shore, holding a 5.0 rating from 21 Google reviews. Reviewers praise the fried and grilled chicken alike, big portions, the galbi crisp and a genuinely friendly owner.
Korean-style fried chicken is its own thing: pieces are typically double-fried for a thin, crackly shell, with glazes like soy garlic, honey butter or sweet chilli brushed on at the end so the coating stays crisp under the sauce. Because the best versions are fried to order, expect a short wait and eat it while it's hot — the crunch fades fast. Menus at places like this usually stretch past the chicken, too, with tteokbokki and other Korean snacks as classic companions.
For Wairau Valley and the wider North Shore, Check-in Bites has quickly given locals somewhere new to get exactly that.