Alice Yang served up her popular Korean-style chicken wings at Chicken Alice’s for the better part of two decades.

Even after the Kapiolani Boulevard restaurant closed in 1995, old customers with a hankering for those spicy, crunchy wings would seek out “Chicken Alice” as she managed various bars from Keeaumoku Street to Kalihi.

Yang, who died Oct. 3, will be remembered at a service Monday. She was 75.

“She was very loving and very caring,” said Yang’s nephew David Yu, who worked at Chicken Alice’s in the early 1990s. “She was generous, too. The first thing she would say to you is, ‘Have you eaten yet? Are you hungry?’”

Yang came to Hawaii from Seoul 40 years ago as a college student with an interest in business.

She ended up working at a bar near the University of Hawaii at Manoa before opening the Korea House bar in 1980 on Keeaumoku Street in the block now occupied by Walmart.

Although her mother owned a restaurant in Seoul, Yang had no background in the culinary arts.

“I never thought I was going to have a restaurant. I guess it’s destiny or fate,” she told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 2005.

While at Korea House, Yang wanted a finger food to offer her customers, so she created what would become her signature dish: chicken wings battered in a flour concoction mixed with kim chee sauce and deep-fried to a crisp reddish exterior.

The wings were a smash hit, so in 1982 Yang opened Chicken Alice’s on Kapiolani Boulevard just outside Ala Moana Center. She sold takeout Korean dishes, too, but it was the wings that brought a legion of customers.

Success came with expansion to Kailua and Pearl City, but those outlets lasted only five years.

After Chicken Alice’s closed in 1995, Yang went on to manage several bars across Honolulu. Each time she moved to a new location, old customers would find her, Yu said, and Yang was ready to fry up some of her famous wings.

Over the last decade Yang contemplated opening a new Chicken Alice’s, Yu said. Five years ago Yu and Yang discussed a joint venture, prompting Yang to conduct a few cooking lessons with his wife.

But following all of Yang’s exacting techniques was difficult, he said, and the partnership never materialized.

Yang retired three months ago from managing a bar.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Assembly of God Hawaii Cedar Church, 1545 Kamehameha IV Road.

Yang is survived by sisters Grace Ozaki and Joyce Yang. All three sisters were members of the Cedar Church for 13 years, Yu said.