Kampong Ah Lee Malaysian Delight

Fantastic food! I was in a large group here and everyone had something different, but everyone loved their meal. Also the staff were great, we asked lots of questions and they made recomendations based on what we were asking...love it!

Also i'm not the first to say this but you must get the Roti Canai to start with, fantastic!

This place is fantastic. Food is really fresh and tasty, staff are great and help you navigate your way through what is an extensive menu. If you are going here you NEED to try the Roti Canai, there are little flat breads, half way between pancake and Naan bread. They come with a curry dipping sauce and are just delightful. It is really reasonably priced here too, there was six of us with a few starters, main course each and drink less than £10 a head! The decor is not up to much, it really is just a canteen, but the food more than makes up for it and you will feel like you have found a hidden gem. Be careful - some of the meat dishes come with bones in the meat, so just ask the staff if this is something that will put you off.

Starter was nice but the main course arrived cold on a cold plate. I have visited and eaten in most asian countries including JB in malaysia and thought the malaysian spicy prawns were very bland. Also service was very slow - unlikely to go back.

Was here again last night... the Achar veg stated was lovely... the Rendang, Nasi Lemak and Satay still wonderful... I'll be back!

Very tasty food for around £7 a dish, and good service - we turned up not long before 11pm and were made very welcome even though we stayed for about an hour. Enormous soup portions and ample choice for vegetarians. Also no muzak which gains an extra point!

This place used to be good and reasonably priced in the early days, but now prices have gone up quite a lot. I was told that the owner has decided to increase profit margin by cutting down quality and increasing prices. You can see that in reality because the quality of ingredients have indeed been quite appalling, e.g., the texture of the meat is rough and usually sparing in amount. The soup-based dishes usually have a lot of MSGs now, so I might as well make myself an instant noodle for 5% the price.

Overall, they are now offering poor quality, low value food. Disappointing.

When I first went over a year ago, the prices were reasonable. Prices have been going up and food standards possibly dropping. It depends on what dishes you order. Their noodle soups are still reasonably priced and probably quite good value. Satay- good. Spicy chicken wings- good. However many of the dishes uses very poor quality meat and can be quite sparing in amount. I wish there was a good Malaysian restaurant in Edinburgh. There is another but very very limited menu but high quality.
I will visit Kampong Ah Lee once in a while but if they could improve their quality, I would come more often.

Went here for Sunday lunch and wasn't impressed. Had the charsiu & duck set rice dish. The pork was fatty and the duck had been sliced without being boned first and there was as much bone as there was duck. I spent half the time picking shards of bone off my plate - not easy with chop sticks and not what I expected given the rave reviews above. While you got a decent portion it was mostly rice and overall the dish was too dry.

To be fair my dining companion had a beef dish and really enjoyed it but I won't be back.

And if you use the toilet - take your own paper towels - there were none there and the hand dryer didn't work.

Its good in here, but dont expect 'malay treats' in abundance as the list high point says. Malay food is not what is generally served here - its predominantly Chinese Malaysian dishes.

The Roti Canai is very good, as is the Nasi Lemak. The quality does tend to vary a bit from visit to visit, but the prices are very reasonable so no complaints. The staff are also nice and the ambience great, its really bustling!

Some dishes are so-so - the sambal chicken was not what I expected and not how it had been in Malaysia - but I guess people have different ways of doing it. Looking forward to more visits though, its pretty unique in Edinburgh!

Was here last night. Lovely relaxed atmosphere. Great tasting Malaysian food. Very pretty and polite waitress ( actually two ).
My 15 year old daughter and her chinese-malaysian mother both enjoyed the evening also. We'll certainly be back for more.

Amazing! I'm Malaysian and the food my friend and I ordered tastes almost like back home. I expected the cooking to be altered for local sensibilities but they exceeded my expectations.

The sweet and spicy chicken wings tasted so good on the tongue, not too sweet or salty, yet had the right crunch that melted in your mouth with the sauces.

The nasi lemak was excellent, although I thought the chicken sambal was mild although my Japanese flatmate who ordered it felt the curry sauce was spicy, even if she did enjoy it. Different tastes, I suppose!

And my rice with salted fish and pork slices was perfect - fragrant with that salted fish smell I miss so much, and plenty of yummy vegetables with meat that was tender and not too fatty at all.

And one drink of their Ice White Coffee transported me back home - it was not as strong as I'd like but it tastes sooo good. I ordered another Teh Tarik drink which tastes a bit strange and there was no froth, but not bad.

I don't know if we were just lucky to order the good tasting dishes or everything tastes this great. I want to try the rest of the menu now. And the place has such a friendly atmosphere!

The roti canai and the pearl milk tea were delicious. However, the nasi goreng was a great disappointment. The rice was in sticky clumps and it was underspiced and seasoned. And since when did nasi goreng have tomatoes in it?

its not the ritz but go here if you want great asian cooking in a no faff atmosphere. Delicious home style Malasian dishes, very reasonably priced and served by the charming lee family. We'll be back the next time we are in Edinburgh.

A busy dinner serving delicious fresh Malaysia food.

My plus point was the 2 friendly, smiling young lads who were serving....nothing was too much trouble.

My minus point was the menu. Although very inviting a lot of the translations to english were not descriptive enough. Despite help from the boys I still couldn't help like feeling i was missing something!

yum none the less!

Good, tasty, authentic food. The food is mostly Chinese-Malaysian with a few purely Malaysian dishes. The laksa is good but unfortunately lacks the vital ingredient of laksa leaves. Nasi lemak is a popular dish in Malaysia and is a good choice if you want to try a few dishes on one plate. (Its a serving of rice cooked in coconut milk, surrounded by a serving of chicken curry, a handful of dried anchovies and peanuts, a spoonful of pickled veg and half a boiled egg.) This is not a place to go for a formal meal, it is more of a cafe than a restaurant, but for the quality of the food which is very reasonably priced, it is definitely worth a visit.

Its such a relief to find an Asian diner that sells top notch food for such reasonable prices. Needless to say this kind of joint can be found all over London where people go to eat on their way home, or pop in while shopping rather than go out for an arduous dining experience. When I popped in Asians were in abundance, always a good sign! I had a couple of dishes including Malaysian style ribs in a really tasty sauce and randeng noodles. My neighbours were sharing 3 dishes and enjoying their lunch too. I will be going back because the food was tasty, reasonably authentic and very keenly priced. Don't care about table cloths, uniformed waiters or decor - just the food, and it was good!

THIS PLACE IS AMAZING!!!
try the black bean beef noodle dish and the Rendang Beef!!!!!