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"Since the closure of Okapi down the road, it’s possible that The Bash is simultaneously the best and the only Congolese restaurant in London. If familiar with Nigerian or Ghanaian food, Congolese cuisine shares some ingredients and techniques, but it is its own proposition: here many of the more specialist dishes are off menu and have to be asked for, like pondu, cassava leaf, stewed greens chock full of chlorophyll and lifted by pieces of smoked fish. Ntaba/taba is Congolese barbecue, infused with smoke and paired with an absolutely searing hot sauce that provokes scalp sweats. But it’s the fish here that shines the most: a whole malangwa (pangasius) big enough to feed three or four people, full of meaty flesh without any dryness, ginger enlivening the onions and tomatoes it comes with." - Jonathan Nunn