The Best Street Food Spots in London

Authentic food and flavours. Crispy and spicy sambal chicken. Amazing if you can handle a bit of heat. This place is super busy. Expect to queue. Sometimes waiting time can be up to an hour. Just shows how good the food is that people are willing to wait in line for it. They have an app system that tells you how long in line you wait, so you can go off and do something else and come back. I was a single diner and was lucky to wait just 10 mins. Table was in the corner but I didn't mind.Very small dining room and open kitchen where you see the chef make all the delicious roti by hand.Lots of Asian customers dining here at the time which is always a good indication that the food and flavours are authentic.I ordered the sambal chicken which was crispy, juicy & spicy. Amazing if you can handle a bit of heat. Then mutton curry with roti. Delicious and eating with your hands is so satisfying.

The Humble Chicken has evolved into something far less humble with it’s new version 2.0Angelo Sato’s original Humble Chicken brought yakitori to Soho with a line of konro grills sat behind a counter serving up tasty sticks containing every imaginable part of our most common farmyard fowl. The crowds loved it and queuing was the norm. Now after a refocus, and a rebrand to Humble Chicken 2.0, Angelo has created a 6-7 course tasting menu bookended by a trio of snacks and sweets. No more outside tables, just 18 counter seats arranged around the small team carrying out their skills for all to see. Clever dishes involving well sourced ingredients and fun techniques make this a great experience. Well priced menu and a good drinks selection help set the tone.

Fiery cooking with local ingredients and exemplary service. The dishes, drinks and service all transport you to the island, leaving Soho behind. The highest quality, local ingredients with fiery injections of flavour really make paradise a must-visit when you’re in London!

Hole-in-the-wall modern and innovative indian restaurant that started as a food truck in Brixton. Great use of unusual ingredients (like samphire) and fresh flavours. Most seats are by the bar.

Having gone through a list of London’s burgers, including the well-known and obscure ones, Bleecker’s juice-dripping burger is the one I yearn for while being back in Malaysia.

The new-wave New York-style ramen joint has now landed in Nova, Victoria. This stripped-back space pumping out ear-bending rock ’n’ roll brings the broth: its ultra-rich signature stock, made from 20-hour simmered pork bones and given extra complexity via sweet miso and sesame paste.

The first - and still the best - Taiwanese bao outpost of its kind in London. Having originally started as a street food stall in a small East London market, Bao now has six outposts (slightly differing in menu and offering) across London. The OG Soho restaurant still commands a queue on most days at both lunch and dinner times. Go for the pillowy soft bao buns stuffed with an array of unctuous fillings (pork, daikon and fried chicken to name a few) and stay for the delectable Xiao Chi menu of punchy, finger lickin good small plates. Firm favourites include the blood cake and cured egg yolk, Guinea fowl rice and the fried chicken.

Cantonese fast food with queues around the block. Simple menu - roasted meats including peking duck & dumplings. Three uncles is Cantonese fast food done well - no greasy plastic containers. A hipster small menu chinese, great flavours. Their stars of the menu are the roasted meats (can be done as a combo) with either noodles or rice. Very tight on space to sit inside so be prepared to collect your food and walk to a nearby bench.

Neighbourhood food with a punchTucked away at the back of a ground floor unit adjoing Peckham’s arty Bussey Building/Copeland Park sits Mambow, a food truck type offering that has come in from the cold. A short menu of 5 or 6 plates allows the small team to deliver consistent and lip smacking plates of perfectly spiced Malaysian inspired cuisine to an adoring crowd. Reservations can snag a seat at the counter but walk-ups can always wait for a table. Well priced and sourced natural wines make this a great addition to the SE London food scene.

Quick, casual, warm and tasty - the most perfect combo for a noodle spotNear Brick Lane, in London, you’ll find this hand-pulled chinese place that serves some very tasty specialties from the wheat filled region of Shaanxi, in northwestern China.Slurp your cares away with ultra savoury broths (almost always on the spicy side of life) with several combinations of beef, pork and vegetables. Choose between belt, thin or rice noodles and don’t skip instant classics like the hand-pulled noodles with braised beef and broth or the handmade traditional pork burgers. It’s not exactly the best place for a first date or for a fancy business meeting - the whole spot has a fast-food vibe in its decor and it’s very hard to avoid pesky stains - but it’s definitely a must.