Agak Agak Kopitiam

A kopitiam is a Singaporean/Malaysian coffee shop, and Agak Agak — the sit-down sibling to Cabbagetown's beloved Kiss My Pans — is Toronto's rare stab at the genre, serving dishes that barely exist elsewhere in the city.

Expect punchy rojak (a fruit-and-vegetable salad in fermented shrimp-paste dressing), silky yellow-noodle laksa in a coconut-curry broth, popiah spring rolls, and chendol for dessert — a menu that treats Singaporean street food as worth the same care as any tasting menu.

The space

A bright orange-and-teal room signals the kopitiam concept before the menu does — casual, colourful, and built for regulars rather than special occasions. It's cash and debit only, in keeping with the no-frills spirit of the format it's channelling.

The connection

Agak Agak comes from the same team behind Kiss My Pans, and shares that restaurant's instinct for cooking dishes rarely seen on Toronto menus rather than chasing what's already popular.