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# Lotteria — Chicken Gangjung Rice Burger
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-chicken-gangjung-rice-burger/
- Published: 2026-05-18T02:15:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T13:04:49.000Z
- Description: Chopped chicken in sweet-spicy gangjung sauce with gochujang, grilled onion, mayo, sesame oil on rice buns. Korean fried chicken culture ...
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: South Korea, Burgers, Lotteria, #auto-imported

**🇰🇷 South Korea** · Family: [Lotteria](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/) · Region: South Korea (Chain) · Heat: Mixed · Bread: rice-bun · Proteins: chicken

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Ingredients

rice bun · chicken · gochujang · fried onions · mayonnaise · sesame oil

The *Chicken Gangjung Rice Burger* is Lotteria's Korean fried chicken translated into the chain's pressed-rice format, chopped chicken in a sweet-spicy *gangjeong* sauce with gochujang, grilled onion, mayonnaise, and sesame oil set between rice buns. The angle is two problems stacked on each other: the *gangjeong* glaze is sticky, sweet, and aggressively flavored, and the bun is rice rather than bread, so the build has to control a wet sauced filling inside a starch shell that has no gluten to hold it together. Both have to work at once or the item comes apart in the hand.

The construction makes the stakes concrete. The rice discs are pressed and griddled so the outer faces firm into a thin crisp shell while the inside stays sticky enough to bind, and that shell is the only structure containing the filling. The chicken is chopped rather than left as a cutlet, which spreads the *gangjeong* sauce through every bite but also means there is no single solid piece holding the center together, so the rice has to do all the structural work. The sauce itself is the dominant flavor, sweet and spicy with gochujang depth, finished with sesame oil for a toasted nuttiness, while grilled onion adds caramelized sweetness and mayonnaise a cooling slick. Good execution is a rice bun that holds as a unit, chicken pieces coated evenly so the sweet-heat reads in every bite, and the sesame oil and onion keeping the gochujang from going one-dimensional. Sloppy execution is a rice disc griddled too lightly so it crumbles and the whole thing falls into a sauced rice scramble, sauce so heavy it drowns the chicken and slicks the rice into mush, or a glaze so sweet the heat and the sesame disappear.

It varies by the protein dropped into the same rice-bun frame. The format also carries *bulgogi* beef and other centers, all answering the same structural question of whether pressed rice can hold a wet filling. The wider Korean fried chicken tradition it draws its flavor from, *gangjeong* and *yangnyeom* chicken eaten on the bone with no bread at all, is a different thing entirely, and the bread-bun chicken *gangjeong* sandwich is its own build with its own balance, each worth a separate article rather than being folded into this one.

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## More from this family

Other [Lotteria](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/) sandwiches in South Korea:

- [Lotteria — Bibim Rice Burger (비빔 라이스 버거)](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bibim-rice-burger/)
- [Lotteria — Breakfast Bacon Egg Sandwich](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-breakfast-bacon-egg-sandwich/)
- [Lotteria — Bulgogi Burger (불고기 버거)](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bulgogi-burger/)
- [Lotteria — Bulgogi Deluxe](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bulgogi-deluxe/)
- [Lotteria — Donkaseu Burger (돈까스 버거)](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-donkaseu-burger/)
- [Lotteria — Double Bulgogi](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-double-bulgogi/)
- [Lotteria — Double Shrimp Burger](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-double-shrimp-burger/)
- [Lotteria — Fire Wings](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-fire-wings/)

[See all Lotteria sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/)