C & R Cafe Restaurant

Terrific food, good prices, and excellent service. I was interested in the Penang Assam Laksa, but the waiter cautioned me that this was a polarizing dish, and advised I try the cheaper Penang Assam Soup version first. I did so, and while the soup was good, I decided to switch to the Singapore Laksa, which has a bit more broad appeal. Very much appreciated and will come back. Thanks Nigel!

This restaurant offers various south east asian dishes - although most of them are Malay you can find pad thai and some Indonesian dishes. The food portion was generous and they taste good. As a south east asian person, there’s nothing spectacularly special about the dishes - they have all the popular ones like various types of fried noodles, fried rice, nasi lemak, rendang, laksa, roti curry, etc. If you miss home and want something simple to remind you of street food, this is the place to go. However, for non asian person, or someone who are not used to asian dishes, the menu is perfect for an introductory to asian food before trying a more sophisticated cuisines. It’s simple, it has loads of options, and even the ones with chilli icon are not spicy at all.

We found this restaurant to have great reviews so we went to try it out. When we entered there was no warm greeting, was just told to go upstairs. So we did. We were shown to a table and given menus. I asked for recommendations and told the lady I liked spicy food, she told me to look for a chilli sign on the menu (helpful!). A gentleman next to me was given something free to try, he liked it and asked what it was. He was told to google it… we saw one lady wait an hour for her food - her partner had eaten his so they both just sat there. We got noodles which was a 40 minute wait as we weren’t sure what we’d like, which were fine as noodles go! But nothing wow if I’m honest. Won’t be going back due to lack of help from staff. Shame really because the reviews we’d seen & read were nothing what we experienced

This place is incredible, I've been coming here for 10 years on every business trip I take to London. Their Malaysian Laksa is a must try dish. It's a favorite of all the regulars and something I've been craving and failing to find even though LA is one of the big food capitals of the world. This place is located perfectly nestled in the heart of Londond's Chinatown and is one of the best representative of it.

A small yet quite satisfying Malaysian and Singaporean eatery in Chinatown. As a group of 3, we were sat down quite quickly upstairs and staff were quite knowledgeable, quick and helpful in ordering through the quite big menu. The minimum bill per person needed to be £15 (one thing to note) so we ordered 4 dishes and items: The chicken satay, roti canai, Hainanese Chicken rice and the Char Kway Teow. The satay was crispy and juicy, Char Kway Teow noodles were slighly bouncy with the prawns and tofu having a nice bite and the Hainanese Chicken Rice was very succulent and warming - definitely a group favourite. The roti canai however was quite disappointing for me as it had the quality and taste similar to a frozen paratha. However the curry sauce was quite nice. The portion sizes were modest and for the price and location were actually great value. Overally, this is a great eatery serving quite authentic and solid Malaysian food. Definitely worth the visit and felt full and satisfied afterwards.