CU Avo Truffle Chicken Review, 6,500 Won [Korean Food]

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Daegu’s Chimac Festival celebrates Korea’s beloved pairing of fried chicken and beer, and now one of its winning recipes has landed in convenience stores. CU’s new ready meal, the Avo Truffle Chicken, brings a festival champion to a lunch-box format. This year’s festival held a K-Chicken New Menu Contest, and the top prize went to a recipe from Dakdonggari, a chicken brand based in Daegu. The product was released so people anywhere in the country can easily enjoy that menu. I was curious how it would taste, so I bought one right away. Let’s take a look.

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📋 At a Glance

• Product: Avo Truffle Chicken
• Store: CU
• Price: 6,500 won
• Calories: 767 kcal
• Weight: 255 g
• Sodium: 90% of the daily recommended intake
• Main components: boneless chicken (formed Thai leg meat), yangnyeom (sweet-spicy) chicken sauce, truffle cajun mayo sauce, avocado (guacamole) paste
• Background: a retail version of the top-prize winner at the 2026 Daegu Chimac Festival K-Chicken New Menu Contest (a recipe by Daegu brand Dakdonggari)
• Verdict: ★3.5 — truffle aroma and avocado give familiar convenience store yangnyeom chicken an unusual twist worth trying once.

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Avo Truffle Chicken: Price and Highlights

As mentioned, this menu is based on the winning recipe from the 2026 Daegu Chimac Festival. It launched with the concept of “a fantastic harmony of smooth guacamole, rich truffle aroma, and crunchy chicken.” The name alone sounds pretty grand. Haha. Honestly, truffle chicken has appeared at existing chains before, so I could roughly imagine the flavor. With avocado on top as well, though, I was really curious how it would come together. The price is 6,500 won.

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Dakdonggari’s Recipe and the Nutrition Facts

Dakdonggari is said to be a local franchise from Daegu. A handful of locations show up in Daegu, Seoul, and elsewhere, so it seems to have only just started expanding. Digging a little deeper, though, it’s actually an indoor pojangmacha (street-tent-style pub) brand rather than a chicken specialist. The total weight is 255 g, and at 767 kcal it’s heavier than I expected. Sodium sits at 90% of the daily recommended intake, so it’s a fairly salty menu. You can also microwave it with the lid on.

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The festival entry probably used freshly fried chicken. Since this is a convenience store product, however, it uses boneless, formed chicken. The cut is leg meat, sourced from Thailand. That said, the sauce looks quite rich, so it probably won’t matter much.

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What’s in the Tray

Let’s check the lineup. It’s closer to a single fresh-food item or a bar snack than a full lunch box, so there isn’t much to the lineup. Still, it looks quite different (?) from the chicken dishes and lunch boxes I usually see, which made me pretty curious.

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Avocado Paste and Truffle Cajun Sauce

First up is the avocado. There’s about one or two tablespoons of it on top of the chicken. Naturally (?!), it isn’t fresh avocado. The label lists citric acid, vitamin C, and so on, so it seems to be a paste. Avocado doesn’t dominate the flavor much anyway, so this amount seems about right.

As for the truffle, it doesn’t come from truffle oil or truffle salt. Instead, they seem to have made a separate truffle cajun sauce. Even after searching news articles, I couldn’t tell whether the original contest entry used a truffle cajun sauce or whether this sauce was blended in-house. Either way, it seems quite strong, since the truffle aroma comes through even when cold.

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Taste Test: Does the Truffle Make a Difference?

Time to dig in. I heated it with the lid on, and the moment I opened it, a strong truffle aroma and the sweet scent of yangnyeom chicken sauce wafted out. I started with a piece that had only the truffle cajun sauce.

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As I half expected, the chicken is boneless anyway, so I didn’t have high hopes. The sauce also tasted like the yangnyeom chicken we usually get in convenience store lunch boxes. Even so, the truffle cajun sauce changes the flavor considerably. It’s enough to give you the illusion (!) of something a little upscale. Haha. It also tones down the typical sweetness of convenience store yangnyeom chicken, which makes it surprisingly better.

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The Avocado-Topped Pieces

Next, I tried a piece loaded with avocado. It’s clearly not fresh avocado, but the paste still adds a slightly mellow note. It blends with the yangnyeom sauce and the mild heat of the cajun truffle mayo while softening them a little. Unlike cream or cheese, it also makes things a touch richer.

I don’t know what the original was like. In this version, however, both the boneless chicken and the base sauce stay close to familiar flavors. So you’ll want to mix in the cajun truffle mayo and avocado as you go. Apart from that, it was fairly enjoyable.

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Expect a Softer Texture

As with most convenience store chicken that’s cooked once and then sold chilled, expect a slightly soggy texture rather than crunch. With all that in mind, though, it felt quite reasonable for the price. I’ve often bought convenience store dakgangjeong over the years, so it went down without any trouble.

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Final Verdict: An Unusual Convenience Store Chicken Worth a Try

If you’ve had plenty of chicken or dakgangjeong from convenience store lunch boxes and fresh-food lines, this one offers a genuinely different flavor. I personally enjoyed it, too. It isn’t expensive, and the more I ate, the more curious I got about what the original contest entry was like. If you’re curious, it’s worth trying at least once. For visitors to Korea, it’s a fun way to taste a festival-winning chimaek recipe without a trip to Daegu.

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For launch details on this retail version of the Daegu Chimac Festival K-Chicken contest winner, see the (Korean source) Newspim report on CU’s Avo Truffle Chicken launch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How much is CU’s Avo Truffle Chicken?

It’s 6,500 won for 255 g and 767 kcal, heavier than it looks. Sodium reaches 90% of the daily recommended intake, so it runs quite salty.

Q. What does the Avo Truffle Chicken taste like?

The base is familiar convenience store yangnyeom chicken, but the truffle cajun sauce changes the aroma and tones down the sweetness. Avocado-topped pieces taste slightly richer, so mixing the sauce and avocado works best.

Q. Is the chicken crispy?

Not really. Like most pre-cooked, chilled convenience store chicken, it’s a little soggy rather than crunchy, so factor that in. Allowing for that, it’s a reasonable pick for the price.