328 Katong Laksa (East Coast Road)

Founded by Lucy 'Nancy' Koh in 1998, this brand serves probably the most popular and well known rendition, thanks to beating Gordon Ramsay's version of Laksa in a 2013 competition.
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Their orange-hued rendition is bright, rich, and creamy grainy from coconut milk, fermented dried shrimp, laksa leaves, and ample spice paste. Carries addictive savoury milky spicy flavour.
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The slippery thick rice vermicelli noodles, carrying grainy sweet flavour, are trimmed short, enabling it to be eaten with just a spoon.
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Garnishes of crisp bean sprouts with vegetal sweet flavour, bouncy fish cake with sweet savoury salty flavour, spongy tofu puffs with grainy savoury spice flavour, crunchy deshelled prawns with sweet savoury flavour, and plump juicy blood cockles with mineral salty briny flavour.
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Further kick of salty spicy flavour from the sambal belachan paste.
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Laksa
328 Katong Laksa
@ 51 East Coast Road
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The steaming hot bowl of laksa is slightly on the pricey side, going for $6.30 just for a small bowl. However, the ingredients were abundant, with 4-5 pieces of fleshy prawns and cockles. What really took us by surprise was the flavour punched in the red hot gravy - prawns, hei bi (spicy chilli shrimp), and the sweetness of the coconut milk. The flavour profile was extremely strong, and together with the generous amount of chilli that was given to mix into the gravy, 328 Katong Laska is not for the faint hearted.

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The spice tinge marries well with the sweet coconut broth to deliver this classic laksa, comes with cockles and prawns and ultimately a feast of flavours ($6.50)

Honestly, after three years of living in Sg, this is the first time i probably had a laksa. After i got my bowl of laksa, i was immediately exposed as a foreigner because I was looking for chopsticks. Nup! Only spoon is allowed…. Once you started eating, it was such a clever idea. They cut the noodle short. Eating with a spoon means every spoonful, you are eating the noodle together with the soup. It might not be true, but that was how I interpreted it. I wish i paid extra to add extra cockles. Nothing fancy, but i felt so shiok.

I know its not the wisest decision to spend $6.30 on a bowl of laksa but Katong Laksa was literally my childhood, and I cannot lie and say that I don’t occasionally dream of it. Katong laksa is not the most affordably priced, but there are more exorbitant bowls out there. There’s something rich and creamy about the laksa broth, that gives a good spicy kick when you request for the addition of chilli. The already cut silky smooth noodles don’t require you to use a chopstick — so take mouthfuls of noodles, soup, and cockles all at the same time. The prawns were thin and measly, but being here a number of times, I wasn’t really expecting much from the ingredients here. Nonetheless, I’ll still come back for their pretty solid laksa broth and the nostalgia.

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decent bowl laksa albeit the price increasing as fast as the petrol at this rate- small $6.30, large $8.30