Inside the box you'll find coconut milk powder, a bag of moist laksa paste, sambal oelek (chili condiment) and instructions written in Chinese. Luckily for us non Chinese folk, the instructions on the back of the box are in English. You'll need to BYO noodles for this one as well. You can just leave it at that and you'll have it ready in the time it takes to cook the noodles and heat up the laksa mix, but that would be pretty boring and I wouldn't have anything else to write. Instead, I've added in some of the usual laksa suspects including prawns, mussels, bean sprouts and cardboard fried tofu puffs. Garnish with some fried shallots and coriander and now things are starting to look tasty.

I'm not the biggest connoisseur of laksa but I thought it tasted pretty good. There's not too much coconut milkiness, a good whiff of dried shrimp type stuff and it's orange. That'll do it for me! The sambal oelek that comes with it is pretty mild so don't be afraid to put the whole lot in for a decent kick. You might want to turn the aircon on and crank the fan up while you're at it.