Downtown State College is full of restaurants and bars, and pretty much nothing else. It makes for a place where you can get practically any kind of food you’re looking for within a tiny stretch, and I’m someone who likes to take advantage of that.

One of my favorite places is Green Bowl, a Chinese noodle restaurant that is criminally underrated. Like many other places, it doesn’t look like much from the outside, but by the time you have your food in front of you, nothing else matters. So when I discovered that the owners of Green Bowl had another place, College Ave’s Chick2, I was out the door and on my way in seconds flat.

Chick2 sits right on College Avenue, only a few doors from Irvings and Allen Street. It’s right next to The Hideaway’s front entrance, and like its noodle-shop sibling, the storefront doesn’t do it much justice. It’s a bit dark, there are only a few tables and chairs, and the entire kitchen is just behind the counter. But, as I’ve come to learn, these are the absolute best kinds of places.

The restaurant only has a few meal options, and most people will gravitate to the No. 1 Chicken Over Rice — exactly what it sounds like, a pile of chicken over a pile of rice, with all sorts of sauces and extra goodies. It costs a cool $6.99 and is worth every penny (even a few more). The sauces are homemade, and you can see them cooking up the rice as you eat.

The thing about Chick2 that caught my eye, though, was the drink options. They had all the good canned sodas, especially my beloved Diet Coke, but that’s not what makes Chick2 interesting. Any drink you order comes with a fried egg for some reason.

If you order no drink, you get no egg. You can order an egg and get no drink (for $1.29). But, for some odd reason, you can’t get a plain drink without asking them to “hold the egg.” The bundle is $1.99, which implies that the drink itself is only $0.70, an absolute steal compared to nearly every other place around.

When asked, one of the workers told me that it was simply “for free” with the drink, as a little present. He also said that only one person has ever refused the egg.

If you’re in the mood for excellent (and super cheap) food or just getting an egg with your drink, head over to Chick2 on College Avenue.