Prima Taste – Instant Laksa!

By Veron | Posted in Food
Tags #Laksa #Seasoning #Singaporean

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It’s laksa day today! We had laksa at home for both lunch and dinner. Yeah, yeah, I know that sounds utterly unhealthy and fattening. Still, the laksa was extremely yummy and quite possibly the best I’ve ever had. That’s pretty amazing considering it came right out of a box!

Yup, we cheated. We didn’t make the laksa from scratch. Why would we when there is prima taste‘s ready-to-cook meal kit for laksa?

Prima Taste’s Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa
SGD4.50
Servings: 2-3

For those of you with a puzzled look on your face, laksa is a spicy soup dish of Chinese and Malay origins, commonly found in Singapore and Malaysia. The soup is made largely of coconut milk, which means it’s high in cholesterol and very fattening. A bowl of laksa may have at least 700 calories!

laksa is served with either noodles or rice vermicelli. People eat it with a range of ingredients, usually cockles, prawn, poultry meat, bean sprouts, tau pok (fried tofu) or fishballs. In Singapore, laksa is a very common hawker food.

Because it is such a popular dish, it wasn’t long before a company came out with instant laksa. After all, there are already instant coffee, instant noodles, instant pizza, and even instant satay. So why not instant laksa? Prima taste packages its instant laksa in the form of a “ready-to-cook meal kit”, consisting of 4 packets of seasoning:

Contents of Prima Taste's Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

Prima Taste’s Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

Laksa Premix (coconut milk mix)
Laksa Paste (herbs and shrimp paste)
Sambal Chili
Dried Laksa Leaves

With this kit, cooking laksa is a breeze. The packet of laksa premix goes into the water first, turning it into a milky white coconut gravy.

Cooking Prima Taste's Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

Throw in the laksa paste and bring the soup to boil. Voila! You have your pot of laksa soup! That’s how easy it is! Bachelors and girls who can’t cook can all rejoice!

Prima Taste's Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

Prima Taste’s Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

For ingredients, we had shrimp, chicken meat and fishballs. From start to finish, it took only 5 to 10 minutes before we could enjoy our bowls of piping hot laksa. The kit also includes a packet of dried laksa leaves that can be used to sprinkle over the dish, and a sachet of awesome sambal chili!

Sambal chili from Prima Taste's Ready-to-Cook Meal Kit for Laksa

The sambal chili was extremely rich and flavorful. My only gripe is that there was too little of it! Right after this I’m writing to prima taste to compliment them on their products, and ask for more sambal chili!

Seriously people, you really ought to try this out! Besides laksa, this range of ready-to-cook meal kits also include hot local favorites such as mee rebus, fried hokkien mee, Singapore curry, chilli crab and bak kut teh, just to name a few.

Prima taste’s ready-to-cook meal kits are available at most supermarkets. People are buying these meal kits in cartons! To ship to friends overseas, they say. Yeah, that’s how good these meal kits are.

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Veron Ang is the founder and chief editor of Sparklette. She lives in Singapore and has dined and traveled across the world. She also runs Sparklette Studio, a web design and WordPress development firm. If you'd like to connect with her, head on over to the contact page or follow her personal updates on Twitter: @VeronSG.

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py
June 3

Looks great. I feel tempted to send these instant laksa to friends who are overseas.
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Veron
June 3

If you still do PostCrossing, this is a great item to send to people.
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ketsugi
June 3

This does sound like a rather glowing review. I’m definitely going to give this a try sometime.
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Kevin
June 3

These Prima packs are a staple for a bunch of us in Buffalo. Most of their premixes are awesome, especially in places devoid of Singaporean food.
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Veron
June 3

More importantly, they actually taste good!
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Ah_Ying
June 3

Thanks for the review! Am stuck in Aussie now, so I am totally deprived of Sg food. Gonna get that pack from chinatown. ^^
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Veron
June 3

Awesome! I didn’t know Prima Taste products are available outside of Singapore!
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chillycraps
June 3

muhaha now got lab rat tested liao~

the other time I saw it at the airport inside the waiting lounge, was tempted to buy it for oversea relatives. Hmm looks like a good pick. (the hainanese chicken rice dunno how leh?)
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Veron
June 3

So far I’ve tried their laksa and Singapore curry. Both are really good! The Hainanese chicken rice can’t be too far off.
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Joyz
June 3

Hi Veron, try the chicken curry as well. I had it there at their cafe @ Centrepoint and it was yummy! I would suggest buying a pre-pack and cook at home to add as many potatoes or other ingredients as possible. Then just slurp it up with freshly toasted baguette! Bagus!
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Veron
June 3

Tried the Singapore curry and I concur that it’s awesome! Now you’ve gotten me all hungry again. Too bad I’ve run out of the meal kits!
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James
June 3

This looks like the one I had at the airport in March when I was going home for a month. If it is, it’s very good though lacking on the chilli side as you mention. A bit on the pricey side in the airport as well though that’s probably because of the AMT.
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Jayson
June 3

Laksa is not Laksa without the hum.
It’s like eating Fillet-o-fish without the fillet …
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Veron
June 4

Haha I actually remembered those lines as I was writing this post! But well, I’m not a fan of cockles!
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Chun siong
June 4

ugh… your review makes me gian singapore food….
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Jasmine
June 4

Would anyone volunteer to send some packets to me?? :P I miss laksa!!

I was quite skeptical to try this product until you posted it here, Veron. Now I can’t wait to get back to SG to try it!
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Keropok Man
June 4

The chilli crab ones are good!

I remember bringing around 20 boxes of it to Sydney haha.. In exchange for 2 weeks accomodation at friends place.

The strict aussie customs looked at it for so long. I went to the red lane to declare them. I think the custom officer was eyeing all the packets! Ask me what they are, as if he does not know….

You can get fab crabs in Sydney, so on the last day of my trip there, we had chilli crabs that was so yummy!
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Veron
June 4

Haha 20 boxes for 2 weeks’ accommodation, I’d say that’s a good trade.

And I thought Aussies didn’t like to eat crabs!
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Elia Diodati
June 5

Prima Deli boxes are a godsend to overseas students. The Chicken Rice is so good!!
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takchek
June 6

I brought back loads from Sg when I went back last year. Great for potluck gatherings overseas!
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