{"id":63556,"date":"2026-06-25T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63556"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:32:02","slug":"what-is-laksa-siglap-the-heritage-laksa-that-came-before-katong-laksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=63556","title":{"rendered":"What is laksa Siglap? The heritage laksa that came before Katong laksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">While far less common than Katong laksa today, it continues to be served at stalls in places such as Geylang Serai and Bedok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Laksa Siglap\u2019s close kinship with laksas across the Malay region is clear. \u201cPenang\u2019s assam laksa, for instance, has a fish-based broth. Then you have laksa Utara, laksa Kedah, laksa Kelantan with the rolled noodles, and of course, laksa Johor, which it is most similar to,\u201d said journalist Azimin Saini, who grew up on his mother\u2019s laksa Siglap and cooks it occasionally in Paris where he now lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cWhen I first tried Katong laksa, I didn\u2019t get it. Where was the familiar fish broth and why was the rempah so\u2026 thin? All the delicious herbs and greens that make it a bright dish to have at lunch were also absent. It was then that I realised it was a different type of laksa, that in Singapore we have two types and not just one. Both are delicious and unique in their own way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"EN-GB\">SEPARATING THE DISH FROM THE NOODLES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Much like how \u201cmee\u201d describes the noodles in dishes like mee rebus and mee soto, \u201claksa\u201d is actually the word for the rice-and-sago noodles used in the dish. \u201cThat\u2019s why you have laksa Penang, laksa Katong and laksa Siglap,\u201d Khir explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/dining\/laksa-siglap-original-singapore-laksa-6199281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While far less common than Katong laksa today, it continues to be served at stalls in places such as Geylang Serai and Bedok. Laksa Siglap\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--IbEOWkxq--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/06\/22\/laksa_siglap_cropped.jpg?itok=vJL1cfss","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2382,3845,2552,25379],"class_list":["post-63556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-heritage","tag-katong","tag-laksa","tag-siglap","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}