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    • cuavas
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      1 year ago

      BTW although Laksa King still makes a damn good laksa, pleaser reconsider whether you want to support them after how they treated their staff during COVID detention.

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        1 year ago

        I make my own from scratch using herbs and spices and other ingredients

        it’s a long list of spices too

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          1 year ago

          Respect, laksa is one of those dishes I can never be bothered to make on my own, same with proper ramen

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            1 year ago

            I cheat by using a tube of lemon grass paste and a chicken stock cube. Can’t be bothered grinding lemon grass stalks and making chicken stock is tedious. The rest is just a teaspoon of this and a tbsp of that

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          I wasn’t aiming the comment at you specifically – just throwing it out there because laksa was mentioned. Good on you for doing it the hard way, though. Always more satisfying.

      • Duenan
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        1 year ago

        What happened with them and their staff during Covid?

        • cuavas
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          Quite a lot of their staff were affected by the COVID detention in the public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne. Now some local businesses and groups pitched in to help people out. Some examples:

          • Sikh Brotherhood were the first to start getting food to people in isolation
          • SES dealt with getting food and medication into the buildings while following biosecurity protocols
          • The local mosque on Boundary Rd coordinated collecting donations and getting them to people
          • The guy from Adam’s Fresh greengrocer helped deliver donated food (unfortunately he defaulted on the lease on his shop since then)
          • KFL Supermarket called all their affected staff for welfare checks, etc. and to see if there was anything they could do
          • CoHealth provided a huge amount of support
          • Coles, Woolworths and HelloFresh made regular grocery deliveries for all the affected people, on their own dime

          On the other hand, Laksa King didn’t even call any of their staff for a welfare check, and tried to use it as an opportunity to profit. They tried to get people to buy food from them to then donate to their affected staff, then tried to play it as them being generous. It was totally callous and uncaring.

          Also notably absent when it actually mattered were the local Việt catholic church Thánh Vinh Sơn/St Vincent’s. They did nothing when people actually needed it, then showed up afterwards.

          The whole thing left a bad taste in the mouths of a significant chunk of the Việt community. It was one of those, “now you find out who your real friends are,” situations. The African community, the Muslim community, and “big business” did a lot more to help a brother out than the local Việt community. Also, props to the Sikh Brotherhood for almost instant response, despite not having much of a community connection there at all.

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            Sikh Brotherhood were the first to start getting food to people in isolation

            Of course they were. Right on amazingly generously community minded people.

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        1 year ago

        find me another place that serves good asam laska?

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          find me another place that serves good asam laska?

          Geez, so it’s, “I don’t care how they treat people if it tastes good,” is it?

          I actually don’t know of any other great laksa places in the area. KL Bunga Raya in North Melbourne is fairly good value, but not all the dishes they serve are great. Laksa and curries are OK, claypot stew is disappointing.

          If you’re in Sydney by any chance, Mamak on Goulburn St is great for Malaysian.

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            no, not really I will probably stop patronizing it overall. since said asam laksa has dropped in standards, there’s a mamak in Melbourne wondering if it is the same. but I will go around and try. XD

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      1 year ago

      Oh man. That sounds lovely. I love the taste but the spiciness of it makes me sweat instantly :(

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          Can you make it without the spiciness?

          The closest I’ve gotten are from the cup-a-soup laska packets.