Foodie Spotlight | Chicken French Quarter

In some ways, Popeye’s have truly made the Chicken Sandwich the go to meal that has every local food establishment take notice. Prior to the Louisiana–based restaurant landing back to the Philippines it is just about beef burgers and majority of rice meal consuming population. The interest for chicken sandwich has been at all-time high. Of course, a healthy competition brings on the winner, and it’s not Popeye’s but the local consumers that have given new choices and things to try out from the conventional Filipino taste. The American dish is such as burgers and sandwiches are a challenging product to market into a country that takes rice meals as their main thing to see in their plate. Although it did not change that it opened options & choices.

Foodie Spotlight | US Spicy Chicken Sandwich

There is something about a “repeat performance” despite the lukewarm experience. Just like the food at Popeye’s they’re really good even though the service is not consistent and sometimes you wonder how they’re not aware about how their customer feels when they were given this kind of service. But then again, this is about their food that made them this good. Of course the previous experience having a US Spicy as a take away is way different is having it in the store for some pretty much dine-in experience. But this is not about having the meal in the branch itself. This is about the US Spicy Chicken Sandwich experience at the recently opened branch in Glorietta Mall.

Foodie Spotlight | Popeye's Chicken Burger

There Chicken sandwiches as the Chicken Wars continue to get other food establishments into the band wagon Popeye’s has ignited this since opening its Philippines stores back in 2019. They presented not one, two or three variations of what they have to offer in their menu, but have something for you to choose from. If you’re quite on a budget they have one for you to try in their menu, and that is the Chicken Burger. The very basic chicken sandwich they have behind the US Spicy and the French Chicken Quarter. The other non-chicken sandwich they have is the Fish Burger, but right now all you need to try and take a look at is their most basic sandwich in the Chicken Burger.

Foodie Spotlight | Popeye's US Spicy Sandwich

The Chicken Sandwich Wars has been brewing in the last five years in America as outside of it the culture is different varies from other countries. In the Philippines, it is gaining interest when Popeye’s returned to the country in 2019, and this was not the first time the Louisiana-based restaurant opened its doors in Asia. They’ve been in select parts of Asia in the early 2000s and slowly shuttered their doors. But with Popeye’s they’ve been on a roll opening branches despite the pandemic in March 2020. The strong craving for chicken sandwich has re-ignited that the competition is up and we take a closer look at their flagship sandwich.