Kopitiam

Malaysian restaurant in Oxford

Suffolk House, Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7HN, 01865 454388 Website

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Suffolk House, Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7HN

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Times

Giles Coren lined his stomach ahead of an evening swilling beer with a visit to a “clean, spare, functional Malaysian café” in Summertown with both “a standard Chinese menu you can ignore and a Malaysian one you can’t, full of authentic nonya standards done brilliantly and cheaply”.

He stuffed himself with “light, flaky roti chanai” and chicken curry sauce, a “huge” Singapore laksa, and battered deep-fried chicken “with a hefty spoonful of Marmite in the glaze that simultaneously baffled the hell out of and delighted me”.

“None of these were the subtlest, but the fully Malaysian family crowd when I walked in were happy as anything”. As was Giles.

Giles Coren - 2025-03-16