Who We Are @ Delaksa.com

ABOUT US

For quite a while now I have wanted to start up a laksa review page but never had the knowledge or the ability to truly do it justice, but I do believe now I can...

Firstly I should explain why I wanted to create this page so you know where I'm coming from.

I do love a good laksa, there is just something very special about a thick coconut curry sauce with noodles chicken/seafood and veg - add a side plate of fresh chilies or sambal olek and WOW...

But there are a lot of dodgy dishes out there trying to pass themselves off as a laksa, that are nothing at all like what they should be.... So in order to help my fellow laksa lovers (and I know there are a few out there) I'm attempting to compile a data base of a few Laksa's worthy of a mention.....

So out of all the dishes in this world why the "Laksa"??? Well for me, there is something very special about the spicy sauce.... the toxic chilli look ... just the smell is enough to get my mouth drooling.

In fact if it was socially acceptable to just have the sauce all by itself, I believe I would be a very fat sick man by now - Thank god for social graces......

So we add to this coconut sauce, some noodles, a few veggies and meat of your choice - chicken or seafood for me please :) I haven't seen too many beef or lamb Laksa's out there, but, I'm sure they exist... With all these ingredients in place how can we go wrong.....?

THE HISTORY

Now to be completely honest my love affair didn't start with the Laksa originally but with a little known dish called a "Mee Rebus" made by my favorite Restaurant at the time "Hawkers Corner" in Adelaide (Hawkers is an Asian food court with Indian, Thai, Malaysian and Chinese).

The Mee Rebus was a Malaysian dish very similar to the laksa except it was a lot more potent in everyway, from its thick rich red curry sauce poured over a shallow bowl of noodles chicken and seafood with awesome fried fritters that would soak up the gravy to perfection. This use to be the only dish I would get from there for years. Even when I moved to Melbourne my trip back to SA would always finish with a dinner at Hawkers Corner for my "Mee Rebus" it became tradition for me.

To this day no matter where I go in Melbourne or in fact anywhere else in Australia I have never been able to find this dishes equivalent. I've come across only two places that have claimed to serve the infamous "Mee Rebus."

Only one of these came close but it was a much drier version (The Green Papaya in Melbourne) and the other place also in Melbourne I refused to pay for because it was so bad. (There has only been two places that I have refused to pay for my meal and this was one of them.... Sometimes you just have to let people know that what they are serving is trash...)

Sadly Hawkers Corner in Adelaide, no longer has the same Malaysian Family running the restaurant and it has been sold to "The China Bar" franchise and unfortunately although the "Mee Rebus" is still on the menu they have basically reinvented the dish. It is too close to a laksa to be called anything but a laksa..... So my days of visiting Hawkers Corner have slowly dwindled, its still great for the Indian and Thai but it doesn't have The "Mee Rebus Factor" anymore.

So this is why ... I hope that some of this information proves to be useful and can steer you in the right direction to a good laksa... And if anyone wants to advise me of a good Laksa please do so, I am always up for another....