Dine without wine, but wonderful Malay Coconut rice and Rose Aroma Drink at Tukdin Maly Restaurant, Paddington


 Tukdin restaurant. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The Tukdin restaurant is easu tp fomd. a short walk along the main road from Paddington Mainline and underground stations which are adjoining. 

We were given two menus. One for savoury starters and main courses. Another for sweet desserts and soft drinks. (No alcohol. Halal.)

Drink - top marks for aroma and flavour

I started with a rose aroma drink. Wonderful Aromatic. Tasty. Pink. Syrup - but not cloying.


Chicken Dish - Top Marks For Coconut Rice

My main course was coconut flvour rice with chicken. The coocnut flavour in the rice was more-ish. 

The chicken was battered, not greasy but dry. I have never had chicken like that before. Normally, rice is just an accompaniment to the chicken. But here the rice was the star of the show. The rice was okay, a filling protein ballast, as an accompaniment to the tasty rice.

 The adidition of a bioled egg, cut in half, and a few peanuts, and slices of cucumber, made this a well-rounded main course. Plenty of flavours. Protein And starch to fill you up and keep you going.

Delicious Dessert - a Sweeet Surprise

Dessert was a circular sago pudding with sweet flavour from sugar. Sippable, suckable and swallowable sago. In a moat of lipsmacking sweet sauce.

No alcohol. Halal food, so no pork.Although we sometimes like a glass of wineor low alchol or no alchol, we were perfectly happy.

Decor- spartan,

Basic. Rustic. 

A bit echoe-y. I was able to enjoy the informative conversation of the couple by the winow three tables away. I didn't not hear a word from the couple with the baby two tables in the opposite cirection, nor the other two tables. Maybe it's just the plate glass of the window which makes that window table's chat echo.

Highly recommded. I look forward to eating the leaftovers which they gladly packed up for us to take home fleefully.

If you need a drink in a pub before, or afterwards, the station itself has pubs and seeral more are scattered about the neighbourhood, which has loads of bakeries, and snack bars and restaurats.


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