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Kolae chicken bamboo skewer

Chicken on a bamboo skewer in kolae, southern Thailand's coconut and spice marinade, grilled over flame. The opener for the table.

Kolae

Thai-Muslim · southern · Borough

6 Park Street, London SE1 9AB

A Thai grill on Park Street in Borough cooking the food of Thailand's southern provinces, with coconut cream made each morning and curry pastes ground on stone in the kitchen. Kolae, the grilled skewer, gives it its name.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the kolae skewer

Strong evidence

Kolae is both the house's name and its method, and this skewer is where the two meet.

  • Craft

    Nothing from a packet: the cream and the pastes are made here.

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  • Technique

    Coated in a coconut curry marinade and grilled over open flame: that's kolae.

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  • Tradition

    Southern Thai cooking, with kolae at the centre.

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We'd add

Our runner-up

Herbal pepper curry of chicken, Thai aubergine and betel leaf

A southern herbal curry of chicken with Thai aubergine and betel leaf. With rice, after the skewers.

  • Pastes stone-ground in house
  • Southern Thai cooking

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