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Med Salleh, London: 'Kopitiam is homey'
Med Pang explains why his food is rich in influences. From Thai, Indian, Malay to Portugal
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David Jesudason
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Med Salleh, London: 'Kopitiam is homey'
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'My wife had had enough of Deliveroo drivers turning up in the back garden'
Zubair Rahim didn't come from a food background but that freed him up to make smash burgers while offering desi-style hospitality
Jul 1
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David Jesudason
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'My wife had had enough of Deliveroo drivers turning up in the back garden'
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June 2025
Everest Curry King, Lewisham - 'it’s how food should be'
Mahiban Sivarajah reveals the story behind one of the great Sri Lankan institutions
Jun 24
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David Jesudason
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Everest Curry King, Lewisham - 'it’s how food should be'
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Biryanish, Reading - food that lives on in the memory
Why British-Asians and those in the know travel far to taste Biryanish's kebabs and biryani
Jun 17
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David Jesudason
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Biryanish, Reading - food that lives on in the memory
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Jay's Budgens: ‘how do you eat Indian food?’
The answer at this Brockley/Crofton Park shop is samosa after samosa after samosa
Jun 10
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David Jesudason
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Jay's Budgens: ‘how do you eat Indian food?’
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Just A Bite: a meal worth clapping for
How a Denmark Hill food van serves the types of Indian meals NHS frontline workers love - and deserve!
Jun 3
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David Jesudason
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Just A Bite: a meal worth clapping for
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May 2025
Launching Desi Food Guide
It's time to hit the road again
May 30
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David Jesudason
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Launching Desi Food Guide
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Island of friends: re-discovering Alex Samos
From Samoa to Britain via New Zealand, almost everywhere Alex visited he was loved. He lived a life of joy and optimism despite the racism he…
May 16
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David Jesudason
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Island of friends: re-discovering Alex Samos
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Alehouse, Reading - my idols are dead
Great beers but more importantly a great bunch of locals who are ready to chat - the spirit of Wychwood Brewery's Hobgoblin lives on
May 2
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David Jesudason
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Alehouse, Reading - my idols are dead
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April 2025
Desi pub landlord - Southall (1976)
Photographer Dennis Morris has left a clue to the first desi pub in Southall, West London but the trail has now gone cold
Apr 25
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David Jesudason
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Desi pub landlord - Southall (1976)
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‘I've never felt so cosmopolitan - that's a word I learned in a bar’
Time to go to the pub, have a chat, come home and watch King of the Hill
Apr 18
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David Jesudason
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‘I've never felt so cosmopolitan - that's a word I learned in a bar’
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The Safari bar: A gay bar. In a zoo. In Bognor Regis. In the early 1980s
One summer a zoo in Bognor hosted a gay club with fire-eaters, drag acts and thumping NRG music
Apr 11
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David Jesudason
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The Safari bar: A gay bar. In a zoo. In Bognor Regis. In the early 1980s
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