Soy Sauce Soy Sauce

A savory and salty sauce made from fermented soybeans, used to enhance flavor in various dishes.

Kin

Kin

88 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7TP, United Kingdom, EC1N 7TT

Kebab • Cafés • Pizza • Seafood


"This is a great Thai restaurant, and although the menu is pretty traditional, the flavour is excellent and portions fairly large, on that basis alone I’d definitely recommend a visit as one of the better Thai restaurants I’ve been to in London. Other reviewers have complained about the overly attentive waiting staff, and it’s fair to say you do see a lot of them, including clearing plates throughout the meal which is a little odd. So I’d avoid this place if you want to have a deep conversation, but for casual dining it’s not the end of the world and in fairness the staff are incredibly friendly. One other weird feature of this restaurant is that they bring starters and mains at the same time. While they do explain this when you order, it seems like a kitchen geared up for takeaway which can’t be bothered adapting to phased table service. To be clear, it’s understandable in small plates (e.g. tapas) restaurants to receive each dish as it comes, but this is not that you will literally get two plates of spring rolls/dim sum alongside two large bowls of Pad Thai. The waitress also warns you in their introduction that you should give them 10 15 minutes warning before you need the bill (it didn’t take that long in reality). This again gives a bit of an impression that the service is set up for the convenience of the staff rather than the customers. There appeared to be plenty of front of house staff and the restaurant is quite small, so I’m not sure why all these accommodations from customers are needed. I stress this point because this really is a great restaurant, that has just made some annoying choices with how they serve their excellent food. It’s still a four star place, with potential."

Mien Tay

Mien Tay

45 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JJ, London, SW63JJ, SW11 5TQ, United Kingdom

Soup • Meat • Seafood • Noodles


"When you dine out, it’s not just about the food but the experience as well. While we enjoyed the food (though perhaps a bit on the salty side) our experience at Mien Tay was quite poor. While the tables around us got their food within ten minutes, we were left waiting for more than 30 minutes for our meal to arrive. We ordered a couple of beers, a starter, and a main. However, from the moment the order was taken to its late arrival we were not once visited by our server – never to say that the food was going to take a bit of time nor that it was almost done. Just silence. The beers did arrive 10 minutes after we placed our order, but given they were just bottles even that seemed late. The water we asked for never arrived, which proved to be problematic given the over salty fish. We had specifically ordered a starter to allow the lengthier cooking time we assumed for the sea bream. This, apparently, was lost on the staff. We were actually just about to walk out in disgust when the food arrived. When I expressed our displeasure to our server, he simply said “I just work here, talk to the bar downstairs.” Hardly an acceptance of fault nor any attempt to make up for the extremely lengthy delay. We raised the point again at the till as we were leaving, but we were simply brushed aside: “the fish takes a long time to cook.” There are so many Vietnamese restaurants in the area. Think carefully about choosing this one if you care for a timely meal and for properly being waited on."

Caphe Guests

Caphe Guests

460 Chiswick High Road, London, W45TT, W4 5TT, United Kingdom

Pho • Pasta • Coffee • Chinese


"my friend and I wanted to pick up and have had a request for Vietnamese food, we wanted to meet somewhere that was half a point for her and me and I jumped quickly on the open table to find a Vietnamese restaurant in the surrounding areas. caphe came up and we were glad that we could grab a table for 7.30 on a sa in such a short time. when we arrived, there was another person who had eaten alone, and while we were there, there was another table or a farewell, etc., only we! the service (again it was an empty restaurant was elementary, the young waiter was 't rude, but was, we will say very tactless as if I mention that I had a heavy prawn allergy (anaphylaxis sufferer his answer was good, not order the dishes with garnel in it. I have put this on his ignorance and said it is a serious matter and I tell them that they can check with the kitchen that I will not be served any dishes containing garnels. the dishes were good portions (especially good value for money, although the broth to my pho was quite salty and we had to ask them twice to come and fill our teekanne and water again. again it was interesting that my question regarding my allergy took that seriously in consideration of the salat we asked came with garn crackers sitting on the top. because it was our first time in the restaurant, I am uncertain if it was just one of them that the restaurant was so quiet or whether it was to serve or something else."