Kaki, London 09-2018

Sichuan food comes to King's Cross. Ok so there's already Chillicool (Sichuan) and Yipin (Hunan) in the area for competition. I did think the mapo tofu at Kaki was better - and this was probably the only dish for comparison. I didn't take a lot of photos but managed to sample a lot of dishes. The chilli is numbing but not too hot (given the amount of chilli that is displayed in some dishes) although the rice is needed to offset some of the flavour and heat.

They offer a 20% discount for cash (offset slightly by 10% service charge, but better than 12.5% I suppose...)

I would re-order the dry fried lamb chops, mapo tofu and green beans. Soft shell crab was quite good too.

Fish came with an incredible amount of chillies and oil, with the soup/oil moderately spicy and very numbing. It was good but the amount of fish wasn't too significant. Aubergine was ok.

Pork ribs, winter melon soup, morning glory, dan dan noodles were all standard and nothing too special. Lamb skewers were northern China cumin style, but I felt lacked enough salt and cumin punch.