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A small Malaysian takeout on No. 3 Road turning out laksa, nasi lemak, chicken rice and roti. It runs mainly on pickup and delivery with limited seating. Portions are generous, prices are low, and the sambal carries real heat.
Four people turning up expecting a long sit-down meal have misread this one. Small Malaysian kitchens in Richmond tend to run as counters, built around food that carries away well, and the food itself travels beautifully for twenty minutes and badly for an hour.
Malaysian is a short list in a city with hundreds of Chinese kitchens and a healthy number of Japanese and Korean ones. The coffee shop repertoire is the thing to understand. Coconut rice with sambal and its cluster of small sides, curry laksa that wants a spoon and some commitment, poached chicken over rice, roti for tearing. Sambal in this tradition carries real heat, so anybody at your table who calls black pepper spicy should order with that in mind.
The address places it in the Aberdeen block, where Hazelbridge Way runs behind the No. 3 Road corridor at the top of the Golden Village. Convenient and awkward in equal measure. Aberdeen station sits right there, so transit is simple, while driving on a weekend afternoon means circling for a space longer than eating takes.
Midday is the worst window for getting in and out of that block. An order timed for the early or late edge of the lunch rush spares you the district at its peak, and the Canada Line removes the question entirely if the trip is only about food. Whatever you carry away, eat it soon. Laksa and roti do not improve on the drive home.
In the Golden Village neighbourhood of Richmond.
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Upscale Cantonese seafood house inside Empire Centre on No. 3 Road. Known for elaborate, modern-looking dim sum, live tank seafood and Peking duck. One of the standard Richmond picks for banquets and big weekend family lunches.
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