The best dumplings in London are at a place called Phat Phuc

We went for the foot massage. We stayed for the laksa a few doors down.

By Brian B.

I put in my 15,000 steps in one of my favorite cities in the world, London. And conveniently, I had plotted my map to end at a place I'd heard had the best foot massage in London: Reflexions, a walk-in reflexology shop on the King's Road at Sydney Street. It was an amazing foot massage, only topped by the amusingly named Phat Phuc, just steps away.

We walked out floating, and hungry. Phat Phuc is a tiny noodle bar in a courtyard down a few steps, and it had a line out the door. The wait for a table was long, so we did what you should do: ordered to take away and ate on a bench in the courtyard.

I got the chicken laksa, coconut and curry and noodles in a bowl you have to hold with both hands, and the pan-fried chicken dumplings because one bowl was never going to be enough. One request, as always: no cilantro. They call it coriander here. It still doesn't go in my bowl.

So that's the London move nobody gives you. Feet first, then laksa.

What to getThe laksa (ask for no coriander if you're with me on that), and the chicken dumplings on the side.Good to knowThe Courtyard, 151 Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3. Small, and the wait gets long; take it away and grab a bench. Reflexions (The Reflexology Shop) is around the corner at 250 King's Road, walk-ins welcome.

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