Is this Brisbane's best char kway teow?
'Do you sell pad Thai?'
Leen Lai lost count of the number of times she fielded this question when she and husband Kian Lai first opened Uncle Lai's.
'Back then, a lot of Aussies only knew of pad Thai,' Leen says. 'I think it's only in recent years – maybe the last decade – when a lot more Australians have travelled to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, that they've really come to appreciate char kway teow.'
It's true. These days, Australians definitely know char kway teow, or 'CKT' as it's often abbreviated, and food-focused Brisbane locals will readily debate who does the best. Ya Hoo Dining in Upper Mount Gravatt often gets a shout, and a Malaysian-born former Brisbane Times staffer used to enjoy the CKT at Lemak, which has a few locations dotted around the city. This writer has heard good things about Little Nyonya Kitchen in Ferny Grove, and not a week goes by where I don't miss the char kway teow from the now-closed Noodle World in Sherwood.
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