Kiasu

Kiasu means afraid to lose in Hokkien. This word is so widely used by Singaporeans and Malaysians that it is incorporated into their English vocabulary (in the form of Singlish or Manglish). Its widespread use is often because these attitudes are common—to not lose out in a highly competitive society.

Did you know that the word kiasu has been recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary and can be seen at their quarterly update site? Hahahaha... how kiasu can one get?

Anyway, this post is not about whether people around me are kiasu... but it's actually a completely unrelated topic... a (sort-of) new Malaysian-Singaporean restaurant in Bayswater!

For once, we managed to venture out of our comfort zone of Canada Water and Leicester Square...

And it was worth the trip as I think the food was a lot better than C&R or the likes, albeit at a higher price! Still we had a feast!

Prawn toast

"Yu sang"

And to make sure that we keep to the kiasu culture... everyone tried to outdo each other in tossing the "yu-sang" as high as possible! What a bunch of losers... hahaha :P

Fried oyster with eggs

Fried carrot cake

Char keoy teow

Hainanese chicken rice

Fried hokkien mee

I think this is probably the closest that you could get to the food back home... I mean they even have the thick noodle and deep fried crispy pork fat in the hokkien mee!!!

Thumbs up for this place and would recommend it to anyone who has a craving for Malaysian-Singaporean food!