Does Singburi 2.0 recapture the magic?

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Singburi was a small Thai restaurant in east London’s Leytonstone that closed last November. At first it seemed on hiatus, then it turned out to be for good. The closure was greeted with shock in the food world because the restaurant – originally a fish and chip shop opened by Tony and Thelma Kularbwong in 1999 – had become legendary: “For so many, hands-down…