Central Malaysian’s Laksa

25th April 2016

If you love food, then Malaysia is heaven to you. In this multi racial country almost any food you could think of, you will get it here. Either light or rich; pale or spicy; raw or cooked. And of cause, cheap or expensive.

I love food like how I love cycling. Besides cycling, food is one of a way that will cheer my day.

Allow me to introduce you one of the street food in Kuala Lumpur that everybody familiar with – Laksa (curry noodle for local). This Laksa has many tastes depending on where you are located. Different ways of cooking with different taste from different state will give you different feeling. Some cook with coconut milk and some without. Some are red in colour and some are orange or white. Difference cooking, difference taste. But they shared the same name, Laksa.

Laksa in Kuala Lumpur is rich with coconut milk and spice, aggressive to the taste bud. The soup – ground lemon grass stalks, shallots, onion, ginger and shrimp paste. Fried with curry leaf, curry powder, chilli powder, then mixed them all and slow boil with chicken broth for 4 – 6 hours. Add coconut milk to finish. Keep stirring until the aroma of the mixture in the soup filled your nostril and kitchen.. WALAAA!!! The red devil appeared. Just a sip of the soup and Whoa!!! It brings you to cloud 9. Served with fresh cockles (Must be fresh otherwise you will have to make appointment with your doctor), dried bean curb puff, bean sprout and chicken slice or roast pork….OOLALAAA!!!… Heaven is just a stone throw away….

The red curry soup is the lust of the eye, add the chilli paste to the soup to enhance the spiciness…… Oh man… Speechless…

Squeeze some lime juice to the soup if it is too creamy.

And…This…. Will… Bring… You… To..CLOUD 9!!!

Wrap the cockle with curry soaked dried bean curb puff, the 1st bite of these, the mixture of the tender juicy cockle with the curry from the dried bean curb puff exploded in your mouth, filled your taste bud with the spices of the chilli and aroma of mixed ingredients in the curry creamy soup…… BHHOOM!!!.… Suddenly, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in C Minor is playing  in your head.

After the Laksa, you need this kopi-o ( Local coffee) to bring you back to reality.