31 Sungei Road Laksa  结霜桥叻沙

Address:
Blk 31 Kelantan Lane
#01-12 Seng Chuan Eating House

A $2.50 bowl of Sungei Road Laksa at Kelantan Lane

When I started eating laksa as a kid, it was only done with a spoon. No chopsticks, period! Sungei Road Laksa at the coffee shop at Blk 31 Kelantan Lane is exactly just that.

I think there were a few stalls selling Sungei Road laksa when Sungei Road was still in its prime. One such laksa was sold at the ground floor of a small shop house in the Sungei Road area which was just a few streets behind this coffee shop some 20 plus years ago. This was before the old 2-storey houses, selling mainly military and camping gears, were demolished. What was popularly attractive to the laksa connoisseurs than was a small bowl of this delicious laksa cost only a dollar. At most time, the seats in the shop were taken up, and customers didn't mind eating the laksa standing at the roadside (yeah, & that was a can-do then, legal or not, not too sure). Now Sungei Road and the surrounding streets are packed with many street peddlars selling their wares (usually used and old) by the roadside - popularly known to us locals as the Thieves' Market and where the old houses used to stand are left only empty green grasses all fenced up for the obvious reason.

Currently, this laksa is sold at 3 prices - $2, $2.50 and $3, for S, M, L sizes. What you get in a bowl are slices of fishcake, cockles and the standard thick beehoon and bean sprouts. The chili paste and the laksa leaves are added by the customers (now you see why my bowl in the pic has a generous amount of laksa leaves).

This laksa is really worth every bit of things served in the bowl, yes, even to the very last drop of the laksa gravy because of the amount of dried shrimps used in the making of the gravy.

Opening hours: 9am to 6pm and closed on first Wednesday of the month.