I found Singapore Laksa Sauce in Marks & Spencers today. It had a 3 chilli hotness rating. I bought it anyway. Spaghetti looks a lot like laksa noodle when it's covered completely with the sauce. And it tasted authentic. Laksa leaf and everything. But the hotness... Does everybody know the taste of McDonald's pepper? Yes, exactly. No shiok feeling at all. Not even for me, the famous lousy chilli eater. Man, there wasn't even a single dot of chilli oil floating on top even though the ingredients list clearly said "chilli". Yes, laugh all you want. I was happy enough that it tasted like laksa at all. Food does taste bland here when you compare it to Singaporean stuff . It isn't so much the chilli but the spices. Most Singaporean dishes use about a million different herbs and spices. And everything gets marinated for years and years. Here, the furthest they go is salt, pepper and ketchup or brown sauce or vinegar. Life has no Spice.