RICE BALL
Rice balls now usually served with a plate of steamed chicken.
Some restaurants offer different type of rice to make the rice balls as well as
mixing it up with other food such as yam.The most popular chicken rice balls restaurant is Chung Wah
restaurant. You often see long queue from this restaurant and stretched to Hard
Rock Café Melaka. The food is sure good but you have to be patient for it.
NYONYA LAKSA
The laksa is pungent, rich and well flavored from the spices and
chilies. The aroma is super tempting. Once you put it into your mouth, I don’t
know how to describe the taste; the food melts and takes you into heaven. For
the uninitiated, there is a difference between Nyonya laksa and curry laksa.
Nyonya laksa broth is prepared using chicken and prawns, while curry laksa uses
chicken stock. The red-orange dotted oil on top of the Nyonya laksa comes from
the prawns, which gives the curry a richer and sweeter taste.
ASAM PEDAS
The main ingredients of this dish is fish/seafood, ladyfinger,
eggplant, long green bean and tomato. This dish is cooked in asam (tamarind)
juice with chili and different spices. The cooking process involves soaking the
pulp of the tamarind fruit until it is soft and then squeezing out the juice
for cooking the fish/seafood. This is the signature dish of the state. A very
hot and mild sour fish curry making it very appetizing and is best to go with
white rice. I normally eat it during lunch and dinner.
One of my favorite places to try asam pedas is Amy Heritage Nyonya Cuisine. You can also
try it in other restaurants such as Asam Pedas Claypot and Cottage Spices Nyonya Restaurant.
CAPITOL SATAY
This is a dish
where an assortment of raw and semi-cooked seafood, meat (including raw meat)
and vegetables on skewers are dunked into a hot boiling pot of satay gravy. The
best Satay Celup is at Capitol Satay. The long queue may turn you
off and some may not like the taste but for me, it is nice and worth to wait.
Don’t let the outlook of the restaurant disgust you as it is an old restaurant.
Let’s just say they don’t have the need to renovate it as it is already
insanely popular.
If you are
tired of standing and waiting for 1-2 hours just to find a seat, you can get an
alternative at McQuek’s Satay Celup.
CENDOL
This is a traditional dessert made from shaved ice,
coconut milk, green starched noodles with pandan flavoring and palm sugar.
Other ingredients such as red beans, glutinous rice, grass jelly, creamed corn,
might also be included. Each spoonful leaves behind a lingering sweetness and a
creamy aftertaste from the fresh coconut milk. You should try it at Jonker 88
KLEBANG COCONUT SHAKE
One of my
readers suggest to review and include the coconut milkshake at Klebang in the list of best Melaka food. I
personally went to the place and ordered one with ice cream. The recipe looks
simple. It is a concoction of coconut water, flesh, ice cube and vanilla ice
cream blended together in a mixer.
The resulting
taste turned out to be exceptionally good! The natural sweet and creamy
aftertaste with smoothie-like texture are soooo refreshing that one serving is
not enough for me. I heard people love to drink this even on the rainy days. So
imagine what would happen during the sweltering days…a very long queue!
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