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Amid Asian supermarkets, African food shops and 99p stores, you'll find this small Vietnamese café. The dim lighting and wooden decoration exude an oriental ambience. Aside from the usual Vietnamese pork, beef, seafood and vegetarian dishes, there are less common ingredients on the menu such as squid tentacles, quail and jellyfish. We tried the frogs' legs with onions, seasoned with pepper and salt. Dunked in a sauce made of salt, lime and chillies, these lean, little legs were delightful. The beef in ‘lot' leaves that followed was too greasy, however, with tough and unpleasant-tasting meat. Sour soup with tomatoes, spring onions, beansprouts, taro stem and fish cake was dominated by lime juice, though dill and the chewy fish cake produced added flavour. A decidedly mixed experience, then.

Time Out Cheap Eats in London Guide 2007