Wau Cafe

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This review is taken from the current (2012) edition.

Unlike the other Malaysian restaurants in Glasgow who include Chinese or Thai dishes on their menu, the Wau Café concentrates on Malaysian Malay food. The small informal café, with only room for a handful of tables, has a disproportionately extensive menu offering a wide range of specialities including rendang and sambal dishes and an impressive array of side dishes including soups, omelettes and rice cubes. The genuinely friendly proprietor is often on hand to take you through the menu and make suggestions and generally advocate Malay cuisine. Roti canai (literally rolled-out bread) is served with a curry sauce rich with chilli and given a fragrant lift from star anise and lime leaves, while skewers of expertly chargrilled chicken and fresh homemade satay sauce are smokily reminiscent of a Kuala Lumpur market. For a substantial main hot and sour kari laksa is packed with prawns, scallops, fishcake, delicate tofu puffs and rice noodles and is a deep slurpable coconut chilli broth. Incredibly reasonable prices and proximity to several west end watering holes should make this a firm favourite.

• High point: Authentic Malay cuisine at incredibly reasonable prices
• Low point: Small, no-frills, eating area