Penang Food: One Corner Café Indian Laksa
Written on 8:25 AM by Penang Tua Pui
Most of the asam laksa stalls in Penang these days are sold by Chinese and typically the asam laksa sold included prawn paste to make it sweet.
With the exception for lemak laksa of course, you will unlikely to find any asam laksa without prawn paste. Still, there are some laksa that do not put prawn paste and one of them can be found behind the Giant supermarket at Burmah road (to be exact it is at end of Bawasah Road).
The laksa is not sold in a stall but rather on a motorcycle which is parked outside One Corner Café, where the famous hokkien mee is located.
This laksa is sold by an Indian owner who used to sell it a tricycle, moving from house to house until some years ago chose to be stationary at the present location.
This laksa tasted sour and spicy unlike the Chinese one which is sweet because of added prawn paste. If you like spicy and sour, you will likely to find this type of laksa to your liking. The laksa gravy is not that thick and looks more like curry gravy at the first glance.
Besides laksa, the owner also sells fried popiah and fried beancurd (tau kuah chien) and varieties of kuih like kuih talam and curry puff. We also noticed on surrounding tables that some customers ordered only fried popiah and fried beancurd with the laksa gravy, minus the noodles.
We did order one as well as and they did taste quite nice, the taste of fried popiah soaked into laksa gravy, crunchy and yet moist too.
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