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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 22:46:59 JST Adrianna Tan

   AFAIK the most interesting Malaysian restaurants in London are:

   - Dapur and Malay Fellas for Malay Malay food
   - 7 Floor Malaysia tea room for Penang Chinese food
   - Ong Lai for the full kopitiam expeience (it has all the things I would pick from at lunch in Malaysia, including ‘kon loh mee’ and all the kopitiam drinks). Also Med Salleh Kopitiam
   - Borneo Kitchen for east Malaysian food
   - Roti King for ‘mamak food’
   - Malaysia Boleh for a hawker experience
   - Roti & Brew for roti john

   Then there’s a host of Chinese / Indian / Indonesian restaurants that are Malaysian-adjacent but don’t call themselves Malaysian.

   London has way more good Malaysian food than where I live for sure. :)

   Back when I lived in London I was going to and from Malaysia so never bothered (I just went back to eat) but now that I’ve been away a while.. thankful for the variety here

   #Food #London #TootSea #Malaysia

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 22:48:01 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Bunch of laksa places. I haven’t tried them all but can confirm that Laxsa Soho is the Johor southern Chinese style that I prefer (many of the others do the super creamy Singaporean style which isn’t my preference) #Food #London #TootSea #Malaysia

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 22:57:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     It’s probably confusing for some people that Malaysian food has so much range (it’s Chinese-ish, Indian-ish, Malay-/ Indonesian-ish!) but

     I would be skeptical of any place that tried to do it all without focusing on a regional type like all of those places

     Even back home you’d never go to a pan-Malaysia place, you’d go to the roti place and the noodle place separately (or in the same place but from different vendors)

     I find the list above reflects accurately where the people who set up those places are from, and therefore they have good food. Sometimes I get annoyed by other Malaysians and Singaporeans who are like ‘this is not authentic’, but the food I like may well be a different cuisine from what someone else thinks of as Malaysian or Singaporean, even back there

     #Food #London #TootSea #Malaysia

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 23:02:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Singaporeans generally don’t go abroad to set up Singaporean restaurants (or get into F&B.. or move abroad in any large numbers)

     So the closest to Singaporean food we can get is Malaysian food most of the time. If you really want to split hairs I just think of Singaporean food as almost the same as southern Malaysian but with 65 years of sovereignty / divergence :) but it would be a whole nationalistic debate.

     It’s the same-ish food when abroad!

     #Food #London #TootSea #Malaysia

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 23:11:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jerome (He/Him)

     @jeromechoo there are just way more Malaysians in London than anywhere in the U.S. and more people familiar with the food

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     Jerome (He/Him) (jeromechoo@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 23:11:50 JST Jerome (He/Him)

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     @skinnylatte having been to Roti King a few times I’m surprised how popular it is considering its tight menu. American versions of these would’ve done too much and thus too little. Maybe Londoners are more receptive to these types.

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     Jon (freshstart@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 23:56:08 JST Jon

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     @skinnylatte in Cape Town we have Cape Malay food. Separated by many more centuries of history, but still we have the rotis!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2026 00:08:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jon

     @freshstart yeah I’m fascinated by that

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     coldclimate (coldclimate@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2026 05:42:18 JST coldclimate

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     @skinnylatte roti King!