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Salt started life as a roaming food truck serving delicious mini-burgers, before graduating to two silver Airstreams parked permanently at Kite Beach. Join the ever-present queue to place your order and then pull up some pallet furniture set right on the sand (or inside the air-conditioned glass cube, if the sun is starting to bite).

The tiny menu features just three types of sliders with grilled Wagyu beef or deep-fried chicken – the latter is topped with Cheetos, a nod to the locals’ love of crushed crisps, cheese and hot sauce. Add a side order of fries (original, cheese or fiery) and a calorific Lotus milkshake made with sweetly spiced Belgian biscuits (and seriously addictive).

Salt also has a permanent truck at La Mer beach.


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