Fierce rivalry sparks with Laksa festival underway

ABC NEWS (Australia)

It's an annual celebration of a revered noodle soup and on Day one of this year's International Laksa festival, rivalry is as fierce as ever. The event encourages diners to vote for their favourite dish from a smorgasbord of over 140 culinary creations in the lead-up to a grand finale at the end of the month.

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00:00Finishing touches on a fabled broth, the liquid base of Jason Chin's multi-award

00:07winning laksa and the foundation of enduring friendships.

00:10Nice here we are, eh?

00:11And good luck.

00:12When he came to Melbourne for a Melbourne laksa festival, we all Darwinites living in

00:16Melbourne went and voted for Jason and he won, of course.

00:19Even though he's already won two Golden Bowl awards at previous laksa festivals, today

00:24with the 2025 festival underway, he's still refining the recipe.

00:28Your actual broth is your foundation.

00:30So once you have your foundation then it's a matter of just building layers and flavours

00:34and it's just like building like a high rise.

00:37And once you've reached the top, you've pretty much mastered it.

00:40Fierce rivals Copy Stop are turning up the heat for this year's festival with a Chinese

00:45twist on their crowd favourite soup.

00:48Today we are getting a new dish for laksa festival in Makal Stop, it's Nyonya laksa.

00:55Meanwhile in Catherine, reigning regional people's choice winners Bao and Chong have chosen to

01:00change last year's winning ingredients.

01:02We got a very good recipe last year for the pork and the chicken but this year we tried

01:07to bring something more Australian because I believe that Australians really love beef and

01:12briskets also.

01:13And as foodies cast their vote for their favourite soup or laksa inspired dish, fishos are out

01:18casting a line in search of the elusive million dollar barra.

01:22There are still 11 red tagged fish on the loose in top end waters, each attracting a

01:27one million dollar prize.

01:29What would your reaction be if you caught the million dollar barra here today?

01:32I'd probably jump off and do a backflip in the water, to be honest.

01:35Yeah.

01:36It times in nicely, you know, we had lots of tourists during the dry season.

01:40They start to back off as the heat hits us but then the locals and the gunfisher so to speak

01:47all gear up.

01:48The 11th iteration of the million dollar fish competition runs until March next year.

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