Eat Out London!The Laksa Kitchen
The Laksa Kitchen – From Malaysia to……… Kentish Town
In May this year we travelled from Kuala Lumpur to Borneo via Penang on the search for the perfect laksa, we brought the special recipes back to London and for two weeks in August we served customers in Tolli's Cafe, Kentish Town as The Laksa Kitchen.
Our residency was completely sold out every night so we extended the dates for another fortnight to try and accommodate as many people as we could.
After such support we decided to organise another residency so during this summer our Chef returned to his homeland of Penang to discover some more amazing dishes.
From October the 28th until December 18th The Laksa Kitchen is returning to Kentish Town with three new dishes Chef Lim has brought back from Penang.
We hope you like our new improved version and amazing new menu.
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Popping up at a café in Kentish Town The Laksa kitchen is serving Malaysian dishes to a stream of diners on Friday and Saturday evenings throughout the winter.
Flat rice noodles are cooked with prawns, Chinese sausage, kow choi, duck eggs, beansprouts, dark soy sauce and chilli.
The prawns were plump and juicy and the soft noodles were coated in the rich, dark sauce.
They got the spicing of the curry-coconut sauce just right and again it was filled with a generous serving of plump prawns, along with squid, muscles, classic thin rice-noodles, beansprouts and a boiled egg.
The Laksa kitchen will be running in Kentish Town until 18th December so get your reservations in quick but let’s all keep our fingers crossed that David will eventually open a permanent home where we can enjoy his delicious plates of noodles throughout the year.
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Photo: TK We were lucky enough to bag a spot at Tolli at an early 630pm on Saturday evening, when the cafe’s usual pastries, sarnies and pastas make way for a simple but exciting menu of Malaysian classics.
Hinan Chicken Rice at The Laksa Kitchen on Kentish Town Road.
Photo: TK Then came the house signature Sarawak Laksa (main pic), served with some punchy chilli on the side and those lovely little limes that lend Malaysian cuisine a particular citric sharpness.
The thinner consistency of the soup, plus a surprisingly clove-heavy flavour pitched it intriguingly against the more traditional coconut richness of the chicken curry laksa.
This is box title The Laksa Kitchen is open until 14th July at Tolli café, 327 Kentish Town Road, NW5.
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I was transported back there by the peanut sauce at Sambal Shiok, a self-styled laksa bar that has popped up for six months in far north London, after a period first as a street food operation, then in residence elsewhere.
Theirs was a Singapore laksa, a huge bowl of rust- coloured liquor with a powerful chilli kick softened by coconut milk, full of noodles and shrimp, chicken and fish balls, and slicked with chilli oil.
Another laksa pop-up which I have mentioned before but not tried, the Laksa Kitchen in Kentish Town – open only at weekends – specifies its regionality, as does the great C & R Café down Rupert Court off London’s Chinatown.
Sambal Shiok merely names it a laksa, but I’m going to call it for Singapore.
Plus, the food is so blisteringly good, you need to know about it: duck soup with depths, a salted beef cheek curry full of sweet, dark flavours, deep-fried fish nestling in aromatic herbs and fresh chillies.