You call that a laksa? NT Health’s COVID-19 poster stuff-up

NT Health has landed itself in hot soup after misidentifying a laksa in its otherwise genius COVID-19 health messaging.

NT Health has landed itself in hot soup after they misidentified a laksa in otherwise genius COVID-19 health messaging.

The poster, designed to prompt Territorians to get tested if they develop COVID-19 symptoms like loss of smell and taste, used the slogan “Can’t taste your laksa? Get tested!”.

The only problem? Someone at NT Health used a photo of a bowl of tom yum, a type of hot and sour Thai soup, instead of a laksa.

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It’s the equivalent of calling a Canadian an American, or accusing a Queenslander of supporting the Blues in the State of Origin.

It’s like calling a crocodile an alligator.

It’s un-Territorian.

For a city that loves its laksa so much that it holds an “international” laksa festival each year, misidentifying the unofficial dish of the Territory is an insult and a crime.

Can't taste your Laksa? Probably means you got it at Mary's instead of Yati's.

— Craig Dunlop (@dunlop_craig) February 8, 2021

For a government so obsessed with laksa that it funds an entire laksa FESTIVAL every year... you’d think they’d have at least one snap of a laksa on file? #oops https://t.co/F1zJXeSMaL

— Melissa Mackay (@_melissamackay) February 8, 2021

For the record, here are multiple photos of laksa to prove the point.

A delicious laksa, of the variety served at Darwin’s Deck Bar. Photograph: Che Chorley

Another heckin laksa, this time from the Parap markets. Picture: Tourism NT/Matt Cherubino Escape Family News, Dilvin Yasa, Escape

Two Aussies living in Singapore made a “laksagna” after being inspired by Darwin’s laksa festival. A questionable spin on the dish but still closer to a laksa than whatever NT Health put on its poster. Picture: Supplied