Scousers don’t have the monopoly on the use of the slang term ‘lah’, it appears. “It’s used all over Asia,” Zosima Fulwell, co-owner of Yes Lah, tells me during lunch at her cafe in Didsbury. “It’s a colloquial term, like a slang term.
“Like, have you got any eggs? Yes, lah. Do you do coffee? Yes, lah. It’s kind of like, ‘yeah, man’. You can use it like that. But yes, a lot of people have come in and said ‘are you a scouse shop?’.”
To confirm, Yes Lah is not a Scouse shop. Its origins perhaps couldn’t be further away, in fact, geographically. Zosima - Zos - is half British, half Filipino and grew up in Saudi Arabia, while her partner in cuisine Yen is from Malaysia.
