The Suum Vietnamese Kitchen in Marlow is one of the nicest restaurants I have ever been to.

The Spittal Street venue, which opened 18 months ago, oozes class and sophistication, and you do feel like you’re in Southeast Asia when you walk through its doors by the décor and food see and smell.

With six menus to decide from, I was spoiled for choice.

For starters, I went for a bowl of prawn crackers (£3) and some chilli king prawns which came with two sides of chilli sauce (£8.50).

Like always, the prawn crackers did the job and were a perfect side dish to the chilli king prawns, which were beautiful.

Accompanied with onions, shallots, chillies and leaks, the king prawns were not coated in oil and had a mouth-watering golden-brown glaze.

The king prawns also had the perfect texture as you could really taste and feel the crunchy exterior yet at the same time, you could also taste the soft, succulent and juicy meat of the prawn.

It was a wonderful combination. It was so good that I was very close to ordering another portion! I was blown away at how good it was.

Moving on to the mains, I decided to have two meals.

The first was the childhood combo which consisted of mung bean sticky rice, shredded chicken breast, shiitake mushrooms and chicken gravy (£11.50).

With the second dish being the big bowl of chicken rice noodles, and that came with stir-fried garlic, lemongrass, chill and beansprouts with sweet and sour sauce (£12.50).

And both dishes were incredible. My jaw hit the floor at how good they were.

The childhood combo had the perfect mix of poultry and vegetables and with a side of chilli sauce, the condiment really gave the meal a kick.

And even though the dish looked small in appearance, it was certainly filling.

In fact, the childhood combo was so filling that I was worried I had no room for my chicken rice noodles.

I couldn’t have been more wrong, as the noodles were incredibly light.

The chicken, which was marinated in spices, blended beautifully with the beansprouts and with the stir-fried garlic on top, the mixture of flavours just swam through my taste buds.

It was gorgeous.

For dessert, I kept it short, sweet and simple by having four scoops of ice cream (two vanilla and two strawberry, £4.95), which ended a perfect three course meal at the Suum Vietnamese Kitchen in Marlow.

From the food, to the décor, to my waiter Colm Tan who was nothing but polite and courteous, to the background music and to Nhan Nguyen, who co-founded and co-runs the restaurant with his wife, my experience at the eatery was nothing short of perfect.

They maybe one star on the Vietnamese flag, but I would give five.

5/5