Food Porn!!! (Ingredients For A Good Sarawak Laksa)

This is a delayed photo post as I had been so busy over the past couple of weeks.

Anyway, last weekend, my family got together to have some good Sarawak laksa for lunch. My mom was busy with getting the soup ready, made from good chicken and prawn stock, mixed together with the laksa "oil" which my good friend EV got for me whenever she came down to KL for a torture visit.

So, for a good laksa, you need to have great ingredients ---> Why do I sound like Jamie Oliver wanna-be???

Luscious Prawns...

So, now that you've got great prawns which are poached in stock, peeled and halved, what's next?

Very flavourful shredded chicken

So, the basis of the laksa is made of prawns, shredded chicken, bean sprouts and shredded egg.

The shredded chicken was made by steaming the chicken (with a little bit of salt) and just shredding the meat off the bone. Of course, the leftover bones could be used to boil the stock but my mom was a little rushed for time and so, we didn't put that in.

This time round, we didn't fry any eggs as we felt that we had enough ingredients to go around. However, I beg to differ, having the eggs in my laksa is nice. (^ ^)

To top all of this off, we need a little bit of mint so that it gives a little bit of oomph for the laksa soup.

Minty!! Raw material for chewing gum or mint sweets

Some other laksa stalls in Sarawak would use coriander but Mom decided that mint would be something different.

Of course, no laksa is complete without a squeeze of lime...

Zesty!!

I wish I had taken a picture of what the completed laksa looks like as my camera's battery gave out at the last minute! (~.~)

Anyway, I had a previous post about laksa at another blog site. So, have a look there... ;-)

Meanwhile, I'm just salivating about my next trip to Kuching (God-knows-wehn...) as I miss the food there. *Sigh*.... I've got to take a break from work!!!!!