Philip blogged:
Saturday night out to Geylang for a durian feast with the sgrunners. The target this time was the lower stretch of Geylang towards the Aljunid area. Appetisers at the first 3 stalls with 3 for $20 D24 durians, beautiful finale with 4 for $96 durians: 2 Elvis and 2 Red-prawn. Elvis, especially, was excellent. Thick, firm and bitter-sweet with a familiar beer-like flavour. Yup, when I first bite into it, I was like “Huh? Carlsberg beer”. Simply beautiful and sinful to the max. Worth the indulgence and the money spent despite being really pricey. I mean, 4 durians for $96. You could have a meal of 2 large claypot crab bee hoon with that and still have $6 left for a few cans of beer.
The journey continued down to Katong where we were suppose to have a karaoke session only to have the entire lounge fully reserved. Bo bian, we went over for Katong Laksa instead to make up for last week’s incident. Nothing but the original Marine Parade Katong Laksa. Weird name right? Well, many might not know this but the original true blue Katong Laksa was called Marine Parade Laksa until the uncle settled down in Katong. When I was a kid, whenever we went down to Katong to makan (before the dawn of the Laksa Wars), mummy always reminded me that the “real” Katong Laksa belongs to the stall owned by the uncle and that the rest were merely lousy duplicates. Fast-forward 15 years, looking at the aftermath of the Laksa War, power is now split evenly between Nancy and Marine Parade Laksa. On the other hand, the chicken rice war ended not too long ago with 5 Star being the clear winner while Boon Tong Kee on the verge of closing down anytime. There’s a misconception that when it comes to makan at Katong, its always 5 Star Chicken rice or the Laksa but the truth is, this is merely a facade. The true blue Katong Makan experts would know that the list of Katong makan is really much longer than this.
