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Melbourne’s Best Laksa
Rich, lusciously aromatic and decadently creamy, curry laksa is undoubtedly one of the best
winter warmers. Glistening bowls of auburn soup are filled with half-sunken, flavoursome
ingredients and laden with slurpable, curry-soaked noodles. Kiss the cold goodbye—here are
some of the best places in Melbourne to get reacquainted with curry, assam and sarawak laksa.
Canton Malay
CBD
Ditch your five-course menu and shed your seven-piece cutlery set for a plastic food court tray.
Don’t be deceived—this is one of the best places to get a bowl of dragon-red curry laksa. Nestled
unassumingly in Queen Victoria Market’s main food court, the spice-shy are not welcome at
Canton Malay (previously, and rather appropriately, named Canton Fast Food). Seriously—the
seven (SEVEN) curry laksa options include classics with tender chicken, velvety eggplant and
chewy tofu dunked in soup that falls somewhere on the spectrum of blazing hot to the spiciest
stuff you’ve ever eaten. It’s glorious.
Sarawak Kitchen
CBD
Curry laksa’s geeky, awkward cousin, Sarawak laksa traditionally hails from the island of Borneo.
This intensely aromatic, slightly sour soup is also made with a base of coconut milk with the
additions of tamarind and lemongrass. Sarawak Kitchen serves their laksa with rice vermicelli,