A handsome corner site in a plum Trafalgar Square location make an incongruous, though jolly nice setting for Jom Makan’s low-budget Malaysian street food. Prices are higher than at Soho canteens, but in return you get ‘efficient, never overbearing service’, an ‘elegant room’ & decent renditions of classics such as Hainanese chicken rice, nasi goreng & steaming bowls of spicy soup noodles. Quality satay compensates for the absence of rice cakes (Brits don’t eat them, apparently) with superior peanut sauce. Only a small & not very meaty lamb curry seemed mean at £8. To finish, the requisite sugar fix is delivered by slurpy tapioca pudding with palm sugar & coconut cream: the weakness of many a sweet-toothed Malaysian. The heart also lifts to see frothy sweet tea & coffee ‘tarik’ on the menu (even if it is rather watery). BLOG POSTS
Spring Lunch Set MenuMain course + side dish OR drink = £8.00
Main course + side dish + drink = £10.00
Choose from the following main courses:
23/53. KARI KAMBING
Lamb curry spiced with chilli & ginger with red onion & potato, served with either rice or two fresh cooked roti canai (Malaysian flat bread cooked on a griddle).
25. SAYUR MASAK LEMAK
Chilli roasted squash, [...]
center of London
If you happen to be near Trafalgar Square, this is the place to eat. Only 100 meters away.
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