Sukawatee Malaysia & Thai Restaurant

You'll find this Southeast Asian spot tucked along Hermitage Road, where the kitchen takes both Malaysian and Thai dishes seriously. The rendang here has the kind of slow-cooked complexity that makes you understand why it's worth the wait, while their tom yum soup delivers the perfect balance of sour, spicy, and aromatic that so many places get wrong. The space feels genuinely welcoming rather than trying too hard to be authentic, and the kitchen clearly knows the difference between Malaysian and Thai flavours – something that can't be said for every dual-cuisine restaurant. Their curry laksa is particularly good, with that rich coconut broth that coats the noodles properly, and the satay comes with a peanut sauce that tastes like someone's grandmother made it.