Champa Kitchen is a family-run Uptown Waterloo spot for Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese comfort food, with the strongest first order built around sai gok, Nam Khao, larb, pho, and crispy duck.

Bhima's Warung is a long-running Waterloo dining room built around Paul Boehmer's personal Southeast Asian cooking language: mango-butter dumplings, seafood laksa, duck noodles, dark-ale ribs, vegetarian curries, and a cash/debit-only dinner rhythm from 5 pm.

Waterloo University District counter-service stop for gua bao, banh mi-style baguettes, loaded Seoul Kimchi Fries, vegetarian bao, and quick combo orders.