The founder of Katong Laksa, Ms Nancy Koh, took a period of six months through many rounds of trial and error, to create and perfect the recipe. Of the 45 years of existence of laksa in Singapore, Katong Laksa has been a well-known favourite for the last 22 years, which was highly recommended by Yan Can Cook in 2001. It has even attracted the interests of celebrities around Asia who flew here from Hong Kong, Taiwan etc.