a bowl of laksa that makes my day!

i only had a fix there once.
a little unhygienic, true, but nothing beats slurping on that piquant, tangy bowl of noodles beside a drain.

It looks so good! Although I’ve never eaten assam laksa yet but seriously.. it looks so good!

love it with more kantan flower and eat it with fried popiah from the neighboring stall.

make me drooling~~~ I ‘m a super fans of asam laksa!!!

This is my personal favourite – never miss it whenever i’m in penang! had a good bowl last weekend there!

i’m salivating now, can gorge down at least 3 bowls of it! argh, this is torturing, can only admire the pics but can’t eat

email2me – It depends on the business for the day…on a good day, it will close early at 8pm and other days till 9.30pm.

foodbin – Thanks for introducing the fried popiah stall. Will get some on next visit.

allie – Oh dear…

mimid3vils – You have to visit this stall which many claim to have the best Assam Laksa.

xin – I like your customized order…without fun.

Pureglutton – Many KL people like to visit this stall.

ai wei – Good idea…can get to eat it when you reach home.

adel – That’s a bit of over eating lor….

i haven’t had the chance to try this laksa, though everyone has been talking about it

all the time when i am back in penang, it’s either the shell laksa or the penang road laksa, lol.

There’s a branch stall of this Laksa stall in Genting Coffee Shop in Island Glades..

Oh yeah I tried this with the PigPig before. Really good asam laksa, one of the best I ever had.

Sitting next to the drain gives it extra “aroma” haha. Its no fun eating hawker food in sanitized malls la.

Wild Boar – Nice having you in my blog and sharing your point on the environment of the food stall.

Jay-P. – You have a nice blog and its a good thing to revive it. It just need some time to bring the traffic in. You are most welcome to link to my blog.
Btw…you must try this assam laksa.

Julian – Just playing around with the lens, glad you could taste it and smell it in the desert…haha

Nothing beats the laksa in Balik Pulau, especially the one at the coffeeshop next to the old market. Also try the kopi-o as well as nutmeg and ‘umbra’ juice there!

I think the laksa man pours and repours the soup in order to “trap” as much of the minced fish meat as possible; and also to heat up the noodles, I suppose.
But I used to like the laksa in Kek Seng coffee shop. But the shops cleanliness, or lack of it, was too much for me. Not even it’s durian ice-cream could lure me back unless they clean up the place.

BTW… I do agreed the Balik Pulau Assam Laksa and Laksa Lemak is great too. I used to eat Laksa Lemak at Lorong Selamat but each time I went there, the stall closed. Must be too famous I think

Oh, how I long for Penang Assam Laksa!

I always thought they were banana flowers, not ginger flowers. Interesting.

hi. i was recommended by malay taxi driver that this Penang Laksa is good in Air Itam Market. I ate it and the ‘heko’ was good quality. Thumbs Up!

Hey nice pics! Made me hungry just looking at them, good info, nice job…I love a good laksa and I’m putting together my ultimate laksa guide, you can see it here if you like! http://www.squidoo.com/ultimate_laksa_guide

thanks again.

The best Assam Laksa in Penang is at Hot & Spicy Cafe, Jalan Air Itam main road, opposite Public Bank Air Itam branch, in front of the old Choong Nam cinema (now a church), just a few doors away from Shell petrol station. It’s many times better than Air Itam laksa!!!!!

Just RM3.00 per bowl. It’s yummy, yummy, yummy.

The stall also sells yummy Ice Kacang & Ai Yi Bing (Taiwanese jelly dessert)!!!

WTF!!! I came to visit Pasar Air Itam Laksa because somesay the laksa is one of the must try food in Penang. My wife and I wanna save room for some other delicous food in Penang, so we just order 1 laksa and we share it. My friends also ordered 1 laksa and share with his wife.

Out of sudden the beverage stall worker automatically put 3 sugar cane ice and force you to pay. WTF! Why must I drink sugar cane in the first place! I was intented to order coconut ice because the weather is hot and try to cool down the heat but… F***, I rejected him and he try to threatened me by saying “You must order drink in order to have laksa here”… !@#$. I don’t like to be forced to do something that I don’t want to and still I rejected him again. !@#$.

Finally the laksa is served and it cost RM3.50 each and my wife gave the old lady RM50. After waited for like 20mins, the old lady still hasn’t returned RM43 and I called the lady for my change. The f***ing old aunty return me just RM3 and insist she accepts only RM10 from my wife. WTF, RM50 become RM10!! I argue with her and she runs back to the stall (maybe trying to get cover from the stall owner). I followed her to the stall and start asking for the change from the owner. F***, the owner said that the aunty will only accept RM10 from customer and for RM50, other worker will collect from you. WHAT?! I was stunned and this is the first time I heard this kind of reason to cheat money. The stall owner also said I should have asked for the change immediately. !@#$ F***, they have many customer and very busy so it is normal for them to take time to return my change. Their worker start to accuse I have made a mistake. F***!! No point to keep arguing with this kind of rude people, my wife throw back the RM3 at them and stormed out….. F*** spoiled my holiday mood…. Rm50 for 2 F***ing asam laksa!!
Your food is famous doesn’t mean you have the right to treat customer in such manner.