Wagamama Koko 'prawn' Crackers

Wagamama koko prawn crackers cost £3.90 and carry 255 kcal, the trick answer on the lighter bites page: prawn style crackers made without prawn, dusted in chilli and lime salt with a sweet chilli dipping sauce, and marked vegan because koko means there is no shellfish in the building's lightest crunch.

The koko name flags the reinvention: the classic tapioca prawn cracker rebuilt plant side, keeping the airy shatter and the seafood adjacent savour while dropping the crustacean. The chilli lime salt does the seasoning work a takeaway bag never bothers with, and the sweet chilli dip turns the bowl into an actual course rather than a table decoration.

The numbers read as the treat they are: 255 kcal for the bowl with 20 g of sugar, most of it the dip's, and the protein of a cracker, which is to say ornamental. This is the page's one pure pleasure order, sitting among the virtuous greens like a confession, and the menu is healthier for having it.

At £3.90 published it is the cheapest plate in the entire building, the answer to how much are the prawn crackers doubling as the answer to what can be added to any order without consequence.

Their one tactical use deserves recording: children at the table treat the bowl as an event, and the crackers buy the exact ten minutes the adults need with the menu. Wise parents order them with the drinks and consider the money a service charge on peace.

They open a table faster than anything, first to land, first gone, and their real work is social: the shared bowl that starts hands moving while ramen decisions drag on. Vegan tables get the takeaway nostalgia the classic cracker denies them, which is half the reorder rate on its own.