Katong Laksa
People aren’t quite queueing around the block for this understated Singaporean restaurant, but it’s still a tight squeeze getting in for lunch. With so many options for laksa with different ingredients, toppings, and garnishings—14 variations!—you’re pretty much customising your own bowl.
Our usual order is laksa with shrimp, fish cake, tofu pot ($70), which comes in a large bowl filled to the brim with prawns, sliced fish balls, and tofu puffs. The coconut-rich soup is intense in flavour, with that gritty texture towards the bottom of the bowl that tells you it has been properly made instead of coming out of a packet. Being fans of spicy food, we always get more chilli sambal to add in, but the original soup is spicy enough for most. If you still have room left, order a portion of kaya toast ($24) to round off the meal.
Katong Laksa, 8 Mercer Street, Sheung Wan | (+852) 2543 4008