Qype: Marie's Cafe in London

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I have mixed feelings about Marie's Cafe, which I had heard so much about as one of London's tastiest Thai eateries. First the positives: the food was indeed delicious (I had the chilli basil noodle with chicken), the menu was pretty darn long (lots of starters, noodle dishes, mains, and desserts), and the prices were rock-bottom at 4-6 quid a pop (less for starters naturally). That's the good stuff.

Now the less good. The portions are modest. At least for the noodle dishes. And this is very understandable given the price you're paying. Moreover it's not such a bad thing cuz it would mean their starter+main at under 6 quid(!) would be quite do-able, nice and tidy-like.

More importantly though, I feel duty-bound to report that although I wolfed down 80% of my noodles before the ol' faithful Jubilee line arrived (ha!) I was very conscious that I was doing something terribly bad for me at 10pm eating what must have been the oiliest noodles I've ever seen, that were certainly not to be digested before 3am.

And lo but I was correct. Soon after I was getting that familiar grease-driven queasy feeling, not unlike the kind of shaky stomach you'd expect the day after mixing and matching your poisons like Richard Simmons let loose in a lycra store near you. That said, the pros stand a fighting chance at getting me back to Waterloo for cheap Thai, but only if they don't laugh at me mockingly when I ask to go easy on the oil.

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