What started as a food pop-up that served up fried chicken around the New Orleans metro area — from Jefferson to St. Bernard Parish — is now a small restaurant near Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie.

OPPA Korean Fried Chicken has taken over the space at 3327 Severn Ave., Metairie, left by Wishing Town Restaurant and Bakery after it moved to a new location a few blocks away.

OPPA owner Phi Vu had wanted to open a chicken-focused restaurant since he was a freshman in high school and now creates a distinctly textured chicken wing.

It is so individual that when I was doing a blind tasting to judge the Food Fight competition , I immediately knew in the first bite that I was having Vu's wings.

It went on to get second place in that competition behind the New Orleans classic Willie

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