CU Chicken Steak Dosirak Review 5,900 Won [Korean Food]

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Hello! Today’s CU pick is a new box from the Pbick two-tier lineup: the Pbick Chicken Steak Dosirak. As CU reworked its lunchboxes under the Pbick brand, a whole wave of new menus rolled out. Most of them combine familiar sides, like the stir-fried pork or the soy-glazed pork, but a fresh combination like this one is quietly exciting. Chicken steak, reimagined as a convenience-store lunchbox! So how does it actually taste? Let’s find out.

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📋 At a Glance

Product: Pbick Chicken Steak Dosirak
Store: CU (convenience store)
Price: 5,900 won (approx. $4.30 USD)
Calories: 535 kcal
Weight: 390 g (sodium at 42% of the daily recommended intake)
Origin: chicken thigh from Brazil
Main components: chicken steak (chicken thigh), potato salad, sauteed mushrooms, cucumber pickles, Vienna sausage, rice
Verdict: ★4.0 — tender, juicy thigh meat with a barbecue-leaning soy sauce; a filling pair for rice!

Pbick Chicken Steak: Price and Key Points

CU has quietly put out health-leaning chicken-breast boxes for a while now. After the earlier Pbick grilled chicken-breast rice bowl, this time it brings a chicken steak to the two-tier “rice and sides” (bap-banchan-ban) lineup. The concept is simply “juicy chicken thigh,” so note that this one uses thigh rather than breast. The price is 5,900 won. That said, it doesn’t really read as a strict health menu. Think of it more as a light, clean-tasting box.

As a side note, since two-tier boxes often get mistaken for having no rice, a recent addition to the bap-banchan-ban lineup is a label stating that rice sits in the lower tier. Seeing that, I figured I should lay the rice and the box out separately whenever I review these, just to make it clear.

The whole box weighs 390 g and comes to 535 kcal, with sodium at about 42% of the daily recommended intake. The calories run similar to a typical lunchbox or slightly higher for the volume, while the sodium is lower than you’d expect. As mentioned, the chicken is thigh meat, sourced from Brazil. It’s never billed as diet food, yet it carries that impression anyway. Because the calories run a touch low for the price, it might feel a bit light if you’ve got a demanding afternoon ahead.

What’s Inside the Box

Since this is a simple bap-banchan-ban box, let’s take a quick look. “Do even one side properly” was one of the biggest themes of this Pbick revamp, and the bap-banchan-ban line follows it most faithfully by piling on a single generous main. Here too, the hearty chicken steak is the first thing to catch your eye.

The Main: Chicken Steak and Sauce

The ingredient list labels the chicken steak as “oven chicken, cured thigh meat.” In person, it looks close to the vacuum-sealed grilled chicken thighs you find in the convenience-store chiller. That said, this one is boneless, so it feels a little different from a whole-thigh chilled product, and the cut seems relatively larger. The sauce, too, isn’t the usual one you’d expect.

The sauce itself is soy-based with a touch of teriyaki and what seems like a smoky note. On a quick taste, it clearly isn’t a plain teriyaki base. Alongside it, sauteed mushrooms and potato salad come in as garnishes, so even as a single-dish box there’s plenty to pair and eat together.

For sides, there are thick cucumber pickles and a single Vienna sausage, halved and grilled dark. The sausage is fine, but two cucumber pickles feel a touch scant. Then again, maybe the box I bought was just short a piece or two.

This is a two-tier box, and the rice sits in the lower tier, as noted earlier. It’s simply topped with a sprinkle of black sesame. There’s a good amount of rice, so even paired with the sides, you likely won’t feel short-changed.

Taste Test: How Does It Actually Taste?

Time to dig in! I started with a piece from the end of the main chicken steak. Contrary to what “chicken steak” might suggest, the thigh meat makes the texture quite tender, so it was easy to eat.

As for the sauce, it’s not that the teriyaki is missing entirely. However, it leaned much closer to barbecue sauce, and with the soy base added on top, the savory depth was fairly strong. Overall the seasoning runs a little on the salty side, which made it genuinely great as a companion to rice.

You don’t need to worry that a chicken steak box will be too tough or too dry. Thigh meat can turn slightly chewy if the fat cooks off too much, but this was handled well, so the moisture stayed nicely intact.

The potato salad also tasted really good eaten with the sauce. It’s technically a garnish, but the portion rivals a proper side dish, so honestly you could count it as one on its own.

The remaining sides and garnishes, like the sauteed mushrooms, paired well too. The Vienna sausage is just one piece halved, so I wondered if that would be enough. Still, it was grilled dark over open flame, which quietly whetted the appetite. More would have been nice, of course. Honestly, I wish the Vienna sausages in other lunchboxes were seared this hard as well!

Final Verdict

The main chicken steak is strong on both flavor and texture, so much so that it could hold up as a chilled retail product just as it is. It’s clearly a step above the other chilled grilled-thigh products on the shelf, quality-wise. The calories run a touch low for the price, but on the whole it’s still quite filling.

All in all, this box isn’t heavy, yet it satisfies a moderate hunger with genuinely good flavor. It’s a perfect fit for anyone who wants something a bit healthier without giving up on taste. What about you? Even if that’s not your goal, it’s a menu you can simply enjoy. For travelers in Korea, it’s an easy, protein-forward grab at any CU.

For more on the CU PBICK The Kitchen convenience-food relaunch that this Chicken Steak Dosirak belongs to, you can read the (Korean source) ET News report on the PBICK relaunch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How much is the CU Chicken Steak Dosirak?

It’s 5,900 won (about $4.30 USD). The box weighs 390 g and comes to 535 kcal, with sodium at just 42% of the daily recommended intake, which is fairly low for a lunchbox.

Q. Is this a healthy-leaning lunchbox?

It isn’t marketed as diet food, but it gives that impression thanks to lower-than-expected sodium and modest calories. The chicken thigh keeps it clean-tasting rather than heavy, so it suits anyone who wants something lighter without giving up flavor.

Q. What does the chicken steak taste like?

Boneless thigh meat gives it a tender, juicy bite rather than a tough one. The sauce leans more barbecue than teriyaki, with a soy base that adds a strong savory depth, so it’s a little salty and pairs really well with rice.

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