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328 KATONG LAKSA

Three outlets:
216 East Coast Road;
51 East Coast Road;
Soul Food By Makansutra, 30 Biopolis Street, Matrix Block

Ratings: 5.5/10 

Pardon me if my description on 328 Katong Laksa is brief.  I had tasted the laksa a few weeks back but have only gotten down to blogging it today.

A popular Peranakan dish in Singapore, Laksa consists of rice noodles in thick aromatic gravy made from coconut milk, spices, dried shrimps and chilli, topped with cockles, prawns and sliced fish cakes.

I was expecting to slurp the rice noodles with chopsticks and down the piping hot and spicy gravy with spoon.  However, I was surprised to see that my bowl of laksa had only come with a spoon.

The rice noodles has been cut into smaller pieces by scissors, thus only a spoon is required to eat the bowl of laksa.  Instead of the piping hot laksa I was expecting, my laksa is only slightly warm.  The gravy is sweet, a taste which I had never associated laksa with, and was not as aromatic as I had hoped.  My laksa is also not spicy even though I had added quite a few scoops of chilli into it. 

The only redeeming point: There are plenty of cockles in the bowl of laksa that costs only S$3.   

Personally, I feel that 328 Katong Laksa is pretty over-rated.  The laksa just lacks that "x factor" that will make me go all the way to Katong to try it again.  Katong Laksa is famous in Singapore, especially with the hyped-up Laksa war that also involves 328 Katong Laksa.  But sadly, my first taste of Katong Laksa has left me disappointed.