chelness

Move over Popeye's and KFC! The Koreans are about to give you a run for your money.

A couple of months ago, a friend told us about this place called BonChon Chicken in Fort Lee, NJ where they serve "the best fried chicken you could ever have!" and the rest is history.

Let's just say that we are now on a "first name basis" relationship with the owner, Mike. We're Filipinos but we probably eat there more than his regular Korean customers. He always provides us with "a little extra" every time and he never fails to satisfy. We even let our other friends and family try the chicken, and they too had developed the same attachment to the food.

Their chicken is fried perfectly and seriously, my mouth waters just thinking about it. BonChon is probably the most delicious, simply extra crispy, ungreasy chicken I have ever had in my life. But my words don't do justice. Try it and see for yourself. It's $20 for a large order, which is usually good for 2 people. It is a little pricey for chicken, but definitely worth it.

P.S. You can BYOB, which makes the place even better.

BonChon Chicken
2467 Lemoine Ave.
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
(201) 461-1212

Welcome to the textual version of my life. I've always felt a bit reluctant to keep one of these blogs because it seems foolish writing about your personal thoughts while having some stranger read them. So, why am I blogging? Three reasons. First, I believe I have seen things that most people never get to see, and experienced life from a perspective that most people do not realize exists. Naturally, I feel a need to tell people about it. Second, I generate a lot of thoughts - thoughts that might be helpful for me to write about, and helpful for others to read. Last and maybe the least, blogging is crack.

So I shall start. As the title reads, I am "living in retrospect and trying to catch up". Not to be nostalgic, but I have held on to many things, both people and experiences, in the past that I worried more about them than what I am faced with in the future. I promised myself that it will all end today as I move on to a new chapter of my life. I don't mean letting go in general, but I do mean moving on. Accepting that moments turn to memories and that people turn to different people. That's just how life is. They can't always be the version of them that you've known from the beginning. They grow. And so should I.

Out of this, the blog that is "Chelness" was born --- coined from my nickname, Chel (short for Michelle) and -ness which denotes a quality, a state or an emotion. This blog will be formed within the qualities I will posses, whatever state of mind I'll be in, and the emotions that I shall go through. I will not tell you more about me anymore, because all of what I shall say will be "so last season". You and I will witness the new version of me as I go along with life and write about it at the same time. I, too, will make way for the new version of me.

Happy reading! :)