CAL Poultry

BE CAREFUL OF THIS PLACE!!! The chicken may be fresh but you may not get the whole thing. I just bought a brown chicken from there and asked them to cut it into small pieces for me. When I got home I found both middle wings and a drum stick missing (can’t tell if any other pieces were missing also). The same thing happened to my wife a week ago when she bought a chicken from there and one wing turned up missing. When we called to complain, the guy answered the phone said the employee who cut the chicken «must have made a mistake.» I guess we as customers have to piece together all the parts to make sure it is a whole chicken before we walk out of the door.

I lost a bet regarding the Ohio State v Oregon NCAA Championship game, so I had to cook Duck for my Buckeye friend (I might have secretly won, because my reward for a Ducks victory would have been Buckeye Stew: essentially chili and cheese on spaghetti. Yuch!).
After a bit of research I ended up here, and was overjoyed at the find– the freshest smelling poultry place I’ve ever seen, they have as broad a collection of erstwhile feathery creatures as you could imagine– duck, quail, goose and, of course, Vikon chicken that puts those factory farmed yardbirds from Foster’s to shame.
On my top ten list of genuine «finds» in LA!

I used to make my way out to Chinatown for chicken. When I learned of this place it was a godsend. Fresh chicken in the San Gabriel valley? I’m in!
Whether you want American style chicken (plump and juicy) or something more original (sinewy, but more flavorful), they have it all.
Parking is meh with a few spots available in the lot, but you might be able to snag street parking.
Cook the chicken in soup or some stir fry and you can easily taste the difference from what the local markets offer.

The Go-​to spot for FRESH POULTRY for the same prices you would pay at a grocery store! It stinks here but of course, that is to be expected!

If your looking for a whole raw chicken to cook, you should get it here. This place stinks really bad because of the live chickens, but the poultry are always tender, lean, and fresh. They have vikon chicken which are naturally grown with no hormones or stimulants. Other poultry they have are duck, goose, and quail.

I been coming here for years! By far the best place to get your fresh chicken in the SG Valley!!! Their chicken is always alway fresh! They are friendly and genuinely great every time I come. Gotta have my pollo! I tried every single kind of chicken here! Especially like the black one and vikon! Reasonably priced too!

This place is tremendous!!! Nothing more fresher!!! Chicken will never be the same for me. You want great quality tasting chicken… nothing better. If I lived locally… I would be there every week getting chicken. Fortunately, they supply Viet Wah Grocery stores!!! From now on… Chicken is coming from there only in my household!!! =)

First time here. Nice little place. You can see live poultry on the left when you walk in. Fresh chicken. Bought two for a decent price.
Recommend if you want fresh chicken. I didn’t check what other things they offer.
Con: Cash Only & limited parking (most parking is on the street) but wasn’t a big deal for me because it was slow when I visited.

I’ve been going here for years to buy fresh chicken :)

C.A.L. Poultry (Chinese American Live Poultry) sells vikon chicken along with different types of fowl (duck, geese, etc etc). They fresh kill their chickens daily at their plant in Rosemead. In fact, when you buy the chicken, it says that they haven’t been chilled yet so you should chill it or freeze it as soon as possible. If you’re looking for the tastiest chicken and chicken parts, you might want to check this place out.
While you’re there, check out the live seafood market across the street (the best and largest live seafood market in socal IMHO). To finish it off, try the sugar cane juice store just a block away.
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What Does All Natural Vikon Mean?
~ Vikon’s are cared for and grown with excellent management and humane practices.
~ They are fed an all-​vegetable diet. They are never given antibiotics, hormones or any other growth stimulants.
~ There are no animal fats or animal by-​products in their feed.
~ They are grown with lots of room, no crowding, a good ventilation and more than enough feeding with watering equipment.
~ They are grown slowly for 14 to 16 week period. Because of our Vikon’s are disease resistant and healthy, medications are never needed.
~ We use processing procedures that differ from the usual with an important end result. When a Vikon is purchased, our customers are getting a bird that has approximately 5% or less retained water in the meat as compared with a white traditional broiler.

the stench that I so vividly recall from my childhood has markedly improved!
Go for the yellow feather chicken. It’s not the advertised «healthy» Viken chicken, but it has richer chicken flavor and even though its pretty lean, it’s very tender! I like to just steam it with some ginger, cilantro, and garlic and the natural chicken flavors carry the dish very well.
It’s probably 2x the price of a whole chicken from Costco, but once you eat it, you’ll understand why. It’s FRESH, DELICIOUS, TENDER, yet LEAN at the same time! I was weirded out when I first tried to carve that chicken after steaming it because the breast bone is very narrow, and the anatomy in general is just very different from the cheapo chicken I used to (and never will again) get from Costco.

yay finally a place to buy free range chicken! tastes so much better than regular chicken that you find in the american grocery markets.

Man this place smell but what can I say fresh (yellow hair chicken) is always good

CAL (Chinese American Live) is home of Vikon chicken in Los Angeles. I mean, not literally, since the chickens are grown in Azusa…
At the Rosemead location is the slaughter house and B&M retail store. It is the freshest place to get Vikon chicken. While the Westside folks have their precious (and seriously tasty) Jidori, those starting at 2% can easily afford the $ 2.50/lb price of fresh «walking», ie, free-​range, Vikon chicken.
Sales prices of Vikon at Ranch 99 or 168 may be cheaper ($ 1.99/pound), but you can specify if you want a large/​small chicken, and the CAL folks will pick it out for you. Also, at the location, are various types of duck, goose, and quail, all available fresh, unfrozen. To the Jews (and Asian moms) reading: fresh chicken liver is available by the pound.
2 years ago, CAL Poultry was in danger of being shut down by the city due to odor:
but apparently the Rosemead planning commission changed its mind.
NB: chickens here are sold WHOLE, neck/​head on, feet on. If you have problem butchering a chicken… read a book, maybe «Ad Hoc»