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Former Intro chef Stephen Gillanders’s vision alights on a gentrifying 18th Street.
One of the most absurdly delicious things I've eaten this winter was a humongous lump of deep-fried chicken breast with a core of molten cheese from Hot Star Large Fried Chicken, a Taiwanese chain with several outposts in and around Toronto and Los Angeles. It's the kind of thing that blinds you to how truly bad for you it is until your greasy paws are empty, there's cheese dripping down your chin, and you want to fall over and die.…