Feast like a King

To be honest, we’re reluctant to tell you about how good Roti King is. You’ll tell someone and they’ll tell someone else and then London’s Euston will be overrun with people looking for a basement serving the best Malaysian food in the city. But we’re paid to make recommendations, so here it is: there’s this place called Roti King and it’s in a basement in Euston and it serves the best Malaysian food in Britain. You gotta go. “Roti King is cheap, low frills and cramped, yet also addictive, exotic and so damn tasty,” says food critic Ed Smith, author of On the Side: a Sourcebook of Inspiring Side Dishes. “For me, it’s all about the £5 roti canai: two textured, flakey, hand-stretched then smashed roti served next to, and to be dipped into, a bowl of thin, deeply savoury and spiced dhal. I genuinely don’t think there’s a better way to spend the smallest of our notes.”

40 Doric Way, London, NW1; rotiking.info