I finally tried the laksa at the Congress Cafe at Suntec City. It is always very crowded and it seemed like everyone always ordered the laksa and roti prata. The way to order the food is a bit different from usual.
You take a look at the various stalls selling laksa, mee siam, chicken rice, roti prata, murtabak, wanton noodles etc (typical food center fare) and once you make your decision. Go over to the cashier to place the order and collect your receipt. With the receipt in hand, head over to the stall and hand that over to the person behind the stall and wait for your food.
The laksa has lots of fishcake slices, big crunchy prawns and 2 miserable taupoks (dried beancurd). I like the taupoks and was disappointed by the small serving of that. But it does have about 4 pieces of prawns which is quite rare and plenty of fishcake slices which are quite rubbery. The prawns looked abit undercooked, hence the crunchiness? I am not sure but I have heard from some people who ate fresh raw prawns out in the boat when prawn fishing and they said it tasted very crunchy. I am not so sure as the only raw prawns I ever had were sashimi variety and they were gooey. Not very appetizing at all.
However the gravy is very good, very lemak (coconut-ty) that I almost wanted to slurp it all up. Overall, I find the laksa to be average. I had better before.
2 comments:
i like congress laksa.. yummy! agree that there are better ones elsewhere (eg. katong *slurp*) but i still like congress quite a bit. think the "crunchiness" of prawns is mostly cuz of its freshness, not so much rawness - but of course, not overcooked. i've heard from another friend that some chefs use some "tricks" eg. to pre-soak the prawns in some salt water or something, to enhance its crunchiness.
True. They are certainly very generous with the prawns. Maybe I am used to the Katong version, or even the one near the "Thieves Market" - can't remember where now, but written in Makansutra.
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