Mamak

Heed the call of just-rolled roti, teeny satay sticks with jammy peanut sauce or a tangle of soy-stained mee goreng tossed with eggs, prawns and fishcake slices. You won't be alone: they queue at the city outlet as they do at this outpost near Chatswood station. But the lines move as fast as the roti-whirlers in the window and soon you're enjoying a spiced flatbread-led feast. Cinnamon-spiced kari kambing (lamb curry) balances delicately with shrimp-pungent belachan beans. Dessert roti drip with sweet coconut jam (kaya) or come as a giant, fine-layered cone (tissu roti) with ice-cream. Also 15 Goulburn Street, Haymarket 9211 1668.