5 best laksa recipes

Lots of laksa: our favourite ways with laksa

Part curry, part noodle soup and a whole world of slurpable goodness.

Junda Khoo's curry laksa (laksa lemak)

Alicia Taylor

When the temperature dips, there’s nothing we love more than diving into a warming bowl of laksa. These laksa recipes will do you good – from Tony Tan’s sweet-and-sour asam laksa laced with tamarind, and Christine Manfield’s recipe for a restorative prawn laksa.

Tony Tan”s Asam laksa

Tony Tan’s Asam laksa

Christine Manfield’s prawn laksa

Christine Manfield’s prawn laksa

Laksa lemak

Fast laksa lemak

Laksa with tofu, eggs and snake beans

Laksa with tofu, eggs and snake beans

A bowl of curry laksa, with noodles, sliced fried tofu, a halved hard-boiled egg and a sprig of mint, with a pair of black chopsticks laid on top of the bowl. — Photo: Alicia Taylor

Junda Khoo’s curry laksa (laksa lemak)

Junda Khoo’s curry laksa (laksa lemak)

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