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As you've already found out, laksa is not a single dish, but a constellation of them -- there's something like a dozen major varieties in Malaysia alone, plus those in Singapore, Indonesia, etc. Wikipedia has a pretty exhaustive rundown . Somewhat oddly, Kuala Lumpur does not have its own variety, which explains why you're not seeing laksa joints around every corner the way you would in eg. Singapore. Australian laksa is usually closest to laksa lemak , a curry-based laksa with coconut milk ( lemak in this case means coconut cream), which is mostly associated with Singapore. Katong laksa , after the Singapore district of Katong, is particularly well-known: (courtesy me!) Note the sparse...
Full answer by lambshaanxy: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/19450 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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