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The Begging Bowl, restaurant review: Thai street-food heaven in ...
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There's nothing finer for blowing away the tastebud's cobwebs and for making summer feel RIGHT HERE than hot and sour soups, crunchy peanut-encrusted salads and rich coconut curries that bring out beads of sweat on the brow.
First up, a green curry with poached chicken, baby corn, pea aubergines and Thai basil – what elevates it stratospherically from the norm are the beautifully cooked chicken – in tender, properly cooked slivers rather than depressing waxy cubes – and the intense sour spicing that give my mouth an internal goosebumps moment.
It's earthy and stringy and pungent, all good things in a dish such as this.
Stir-fried asparagus with garlic and soy is a crisp, subtle delight and "sweet potato, sweetcorn and turmeric fritters", which turns out to be one big tangle of crisp strips of lurid orange, dotted with kernels of corn.
Sweet, sour, salty, rich: all the greatest hits are here, and did I mention that the £1 portion of jasmine or sticky rice is limitless?
The Begging Bowl: New twists on old classics | London Evening ...
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You know that London’s street food vogue is unstoppable when it brings the Thai variety to Peckham.
Quality is high: this is a step up from many of London’s Thai restaurants.
Meanwhile, coconut and galangal soup with chicken and oyster mushrooms boasted big chunks of galangal, lots of kaffir lime leaves and Thai shallots.
Chargrilled sirloin worked well with Thai basil and a jaew (thick dipping sauce) dominated by ginger and galangal.
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The Begging Bowl, London SE15, restaurant review - Telegraph
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Its signature dish was a great big mulch centred on a banana leaf.
Oh, and I left the first dish until last, because I was worried it made it sound a little trad: fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce (£6.25) are exactly what you expect from a Thai restaurant, and can sound a little undistinguished, with their fish medley and undemanding sweet sauce.
By the principle of not fixing things that aren’t broken, these were exactly that – a mixture of salmon and some white fish that I’d be lying if I tried to name, a little chopped squid, a perfect amount of red chilli, and some mouth-smackingly sweet chilli sauce.
A short menu of crowd-pleasing curries (£8.50), street-vendor-style kratiem prik Thai (a garlicky chicken or prawn stir-fry, £8.50), and tempura-coated “fish and chips” (£6.95) is served alongside Thai-inspired cocktails muddled with lemon-grass, lychee and chilli An eye-popping design scheme complete with birdcages and bicycles rams home the “market scene” theme, but it’s not all style over substance.
Try the khao ka moo, or “pork leg stew” on rice, cooked until tender with five-spice and star anise (£7.77) Follow Telegraph Food on Twitter and Facebook for more stories For more Stella magazine content, find us on Twitter and Facebook
Begging Bowl | Restaurants in Peckham Rye, London
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Instead of the more familiar Thai fare, chef Jane Alty offers Thai street food.
Colour-coded by price, and designed for sharing tapas-style, the dishes include only a few of the usual suspects (Thai fish cakes, for example).
The rest of the menu is built around less familiar options and ingredients, such as a rich but mellow curry featuring firm-fleshed yam bean root.
Seasonal western ingredients are also given some Thai treatment, to produce dishes like trout in sour orange curry, or fennel and chicory with a relish of minced pork, prawn, coconut and yellow bean.
Stir-fried pork belly with long beans was rich with warming red curry paste and lime-leaf slivers.