Laksa Siglap 📍Warung Sutami 219 Bedok ⏰ 8204 3931

Continuing my laksa Siglap track down, today at Warung Sutami. I am glad I came here 😋

Warung Sutami is an inconspicuous little stall at the left corner of Mukmin Restaurant, a HDB coffeeshop. A hyperlocal makan port with all Halal food stalls.

The menu on Warung Sutami's signboard calls it Laksa Chap.

SG$4.50 per serving.

A mound of blanched rice noodle topped with julienned cucumber, bean sprouts, chopped daun kesum (laksa leaf), and splashed with an orange colour sauce. There was also a dollop of sambal (I requested for it).

Lots of coconut milk, herbs, aromatics, spice and ground fish went into this kuah (sauce).

The kuah (sauce) was watery like lontong kuah (sauce) but of a different taste profile yet equally flavoursome. Savoury, some umami, traces of sweet, heat from spice and chili. Laksa Siglap kuah has more body from grated coconut and grounded fish (compared to lontong kuah).

The taste and smell of lemongrass was prominent and so was the daun kesum (laksa leaf).

The sambal was very spicy hot 🥵 It spiced up the flavours during the meal but I can feel its effect for hours afterwards. (Used to be I can take a lot to chili, but not nowadays.)

The rice noodle or laksa, the ingredient that makes the dish.

At Warong Sutami, the strands are fat and round, thick and heavy, and tender firm to the bite.

The noodles are made with rice and another starch (traditionally sago).

The tender spongy texture of the rice noodle was very well complemented by the crunch from julienned cucumber and bean sprouts. (I am not a fan of cucumber, but finely julienned cucumber is something else. An example of how an ingredient can be transformed just by the way it is cut.)

Singapore doesn't have many laksa Siglap stalls left, not more than a handful for sure.

Warong Sutami's rendition is pretty delicious. I enjoyed it a lot.

Besides laksa Siglap / chap, Mukmin Restaurant has other dishes which I want to come back to try. I saw that the mee Siam and nasi biryani are quite popular with the neighbourhood folks.