Asam Laksa & lobak@Lorong Selamat, Penang

For this trip to Penang, I won't be posting on the famous Lorong Selamat's char kuey teow, Ayer Itam's asam laksa, Penang road's cendol and Pulau Tikus's hokkien mee (prawn mee).. In fact, we decided to try new food; which some turn out good, while others, bad..

But I was at Lorong Selamat; so why didnt I eat the char kuey teow? Well, some of my friends have actually banned this CKT from their eating list; saying that it was overpriced and the queue was ridiculous. As for me, I wanted to eat something else.. hence..

Francis said that there's a real good asam laksa sold here and that if we're lucky, we'll get to eat it (he came 2 years in a row and did not manage to eat it).. and we were :).

Honestly speaking, I'm never a big fan of asam laksa, not sure what the craze is about. Still, I'll never reject good food and I must say, the asam laksa we had was excellent. Actually, I took a look at the stall, it's written there siam laksa..hmmm, makes me wonder what's so different from the conventional ones..This bowl of asam laksa sure tasted different..It had the same ingredients of asam laksa, but just a hint of sourness; at the same time, there was another layer of flavour enveloping it, somewhat like curry laksa..Hence, it had this unique santan-ish (slightly creamy) flavour too. The combination was potent, my friends stopped chatting and concentrated on their bowl, till the last drop of soup was gone..hehe.

Whenever I'm at Lorong Selamat, I'll always order the prawn fritters as I find this snack absolutely delectable. While other stall's prawn fritters have more dough and just and few prawns, Lorong Selamat's version was basically all prawns, fragilely held together by some dough. Fried till crunchy, this is so hard to resist. The lobak was just average though.

Andrew still wanted to have CKT, so we ordered from another stall nearby to satisfy his cravings..Sigh, guess the famous CKT is famous for a reason; this stall's version paled in comparison to the famous one. I rest my case..

The prawn fritters stall is at the same row as the famous CKT stall while the asam laksa stall is opposite it at Lorong Selamat.