smokiness of fish sauce. I'm not a fan of the original (my Northern parents still haven't forgiven me 🙊) so didn't fully appreciate this, but I recommend it for those on a Penang food hunt! 😃
My first #malaysianeats meal since returning from three weeks abroad. London may have 90% of the world's good vegan food, but it ain't got this 😛
to eat. Quite amazed to find this place. It's a stall in Restaurant Station 8 in Chow Yang, SS2. I think it's the cheapest explicitly vegan food I have seen so far.
Because of #mco3.0 , we can't dine-in at the moment. Didn't plan to takeaway this dish, so I only had a container for the soup. He gave me a lot of soup, more than the bowl can fit.
The soup really had the assam laksa smell, though it was missing the sweet hit of shrimp paste that the original has. The occasional bits of bunga kantan/torch ginger flower really gave you that uniquely 'assam laksa' taste. The soup also came with a lot of mushrooms (that's what you see piled high on the noodles), and a few pieces of 腐竹 (beancurd sheets). It doesn't have the bits of fish floating around in the soup like the original does, but he does include small bits of 豆腐卜 (tofu puffs) that I think is supposed to replicate that.
For RM7.50, this is extremely good value (pretty much on par with local #kopitiam food). The cucumbers were pretty much half dead from being lugged around in my backpack for 30 mins as I walked home, so I added some fresh ones to stage the photo.
After I got my order, I mentioned that this was my first time trying his stall. The guy told me that if he had known this was my first time, he would have recommended the curry laksa. So I will probably go for that the next time I come by here.
