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Located on Deptford Broadway, Kaya House prides itself on its reasonably priced, authentic Malaysian food.

Although small (booking is essential, especially at the weekend), the restaurant is big on atmosphere, with husband and wife owners Ambrose and Linda offering superb hospitality to both new and regular customers.

Set meals are offered if you want to ‘play it safe’ but we asked Ambrose for his recommendations. After checking what we liked, and what we didn’t, and making sure the vegetarian in our party was catered for, we enjoyed chicken satay, pork dumplings, wrapped prawns and tofu and vegetable kebabs to start – all of which were excellent.

For mains, we had beef rendang, which was tender and full of flavour, squid samba made with prawn paste and vegetables with cashew nuts in black bean sauce – to name but a few. Everything was expertly cooked and tasted delicious.

We even managed to squeeze in dessert – apple and banana fritters with syrup, fried to perfection, not at all greasy – along with a complimentary liquer of our choice, which we were offered to celebrate our dinner companions’ forthcoming wedding.

The bill came to £85 – not bad for starter, main and dessert for four people, plus a bottle and two glasses of wine and four Tsing Tao beers (apparently it’s hard to get hold of Malaysian beer over here).

Kaya House’s popularity seems to be down to word of mouth. Most of the customers had clearly eaten there before, and after last night, its definitely gained four more regulars.

9.5/10