치맥 (chimaek)

What it means

1. 1.

   Fried chicken and beer, taken as a single item. A national institution: eaten in parks, outside convenience stores, at football, and delivered anywhere including the riverbank.

Examples with translations

• 오늘 저녁에 치맥 어때?

  Fried chicken and beer tonight?

• 한강에서 치맥 하는 게 최고야.

  Nothing beats chicken and beer by the river.

Where it comes from

치킨 plus 맥주 ('beer'), first syllables only. Its global spread owes a great deal to the 2014 drama 별에서 온 그대, whose heroine's fondness for it started a chicken boom across Asia.

Other forms

Romanised as:

chimaek