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62 Weston Street
London, England
020 7403 4600

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Champor Champor

  • June 28, 2002
  • 4 by food&fun from Truckee, California
We had read some excellent reviews of this little restaurant and thought we'd give it a try. It was very unusual food, with odd and exotic flavoring, but expensive (more than $100 for two, not including wine). It is Malay cuisine, with its pan-Asian influence. Unlike many Asian restaurants, the service is traditional, one-plate-one-person, not family style shared dishes. My husband started out with a hot squid appetizer, which he liked, then had a Kingfish in unusual spices. It was a lot like a halibut. He ended with a rice flour "truffle" filled with coconut, a little fried ball of pastry. I started with an unusual dish of finely shredded chicken and coconut, which was placed on kaffir lime leaves. You roll the filling in the leaf and eat it. I also had coconut milk curry with giant prawns. The prawns were fresh and sweet. The food is not at all hot-spicy. It was an interesting experience, but the food wasn't good enough to return on another trip. One warning, they burn a lot of incense in this small restaurant; our jackets reeked for days after, and I could hardly wait to wash my hair, lest my pillow get infused with the heavy odor.

This is a small restaurant, and it fills up, so reservations are a must.

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