{"id":416,"date":"2008-07-05T20:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=416"},"modified":"2008-07-05T20:21:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:21:54","slug":"laksa-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/07\/05\/laksa-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Laksa made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got\u00a0down to cooking laksa (nonya version) with the premix bought a couple of months ago. I had intended to do it while Matt was here but we were too busy eating other types of good food! Hee hee. :D<\/p>\n<p>I guess I bought the most expensive (~S$5++) premix available here. The brand is Prima Taste. The whole cooking process was extremely easy and quick (as compared to the\u00a050 minutes spent on making congee). The premix came with laksa paste, dried grated coconut, sambal chilli and dried laksa leaf flakes. All I\u00a0had to\u00a0supplement\u00a0were the\u00a0laksa <em>bee hoon<\/em> (thick rice noodles), beancurd puffs,\u00a0<em>dao gei<\/em> (bean sprouts), prawns and sliced fish cakes (Yang loves them). All of these items were bought from our nearby NTUC supermarket.\u00a0You simply follow the cooking\u00a0instructions given on the box and voila, your laksa is ready to be served.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-418\" title=\"blog-2008-cooking-dsc_3090-laksa\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blog-2008-cooking-dsc_3090-laksa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After tasting it, Yang liked it and asked if it\u00a0was anything close to the famous Katong laksa (well, he still haven&#8217;t tried it).\u00a0I&#8217;d say it is\u00a0a good imitation but\u00a0falls short of\u00a0that full and rich\u00a0texture of\u00a0Katong laksa\u00a0gravy.\u00a0If you&#8217;re overseas for the long\u00a0haul and\u00a0crave laksa, I dare say this premix will give you a taste of home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" title=\"blog-2008-cooking-dsc_3079-laksa\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blog-2008-cooking-dsc_3079-laksa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got\u00a0down to cooking laksa (nonya version) with the premix bought a couple of months ago. I had intended to do it while Matt was here but we were too busy eating other types of good food! Hee hee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/07\/05\/laksa-made-easy\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Laksa made easy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}