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.
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
I wasnât aiming the comment at you specifically â just throwing it out there because laksa was mentioned. Good on you for doing it the hard way, though. Always more satisfying.
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 Adamâs 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 didnât 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 Viá»t catholic church ThĂĄnh Vinh SÆĄn/St Vincentâs. 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 Viá»t community. It was one of those, ânow you find out who your real friends are,â situations. The African community, the Muslim community, and âbig businessâ did a lot more to help a brother out than the local Viá»t community. Also, props to the Sikh Brotherhood for almost instant response, despite not having much of a community connection there at all.
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.
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