Jonker Street 大宝小食

大宝小食
Jonker Street, Melaka

This is a unique and long time favourite stall for local Melaka people to eat Nyonya Curry and Assam Laksa plus Chendol for dessert. The Nyonya Assam Laksa tastes different from it's Penang counter part. The thick bee hoon was one of the appetizing factor. The soup is thick with lots of fish meat. A class of it's own, definitely a must try in Melaka. The Curry Laksa again tastes different from the Singapore version. The soup focuses more on the different spices mixed with coconut milk. Again a must try in Melaka

Chendol, this is one of the best dessert that you cant miss in Melaka. Topped with gula melaka and coconut milk, this dessert tastes excellent. The ice is finely grinded and the red beans cooked to perfection, soft and tasty.

Kedai Kopi Chung Wah

Kedai Kopi Chung Wah
Jonker Street, Melaka

My recent Melaka trip allows me to taste their famous Hainanese Chicken Rice. The highlight of the Hainanese Chicken Rice is on it's chicken rice ball. Typically Hainanese will only cook the chicken rice during Chinese New Year and Qing Ming Festival.

Here are some pictures of the stall.





Here's the verdict. The chicken rice ball was excellent. Given that it is cooked using normal rice rather than fragrant rice, the chef did an excellent job in making the rice ball stands out with the perfext blended mixed of taste of garlic, ginger and chicken. The rice ball is soft and the traste truly appetizing. Thumbs up!! However the chicken is rather hard but is well compensated by the tasty gravy.

Choon Seng Hng Restaurant

Choon Seng Hng Restaurant
(1st level Khek Community Guild Building)
921 Upper Bukit Timah Road (+65-67691972)

This restaurant serves chinese food with some of them being traditional Hakka cuisine like 算盘子 etc.

One of my favourites here is the Salted Egg Crab. It is definitely better than other restuarant like Master Crab or Owen etc. The gravy is well mixed with the fragrance from the curry leaves. The crab they use is the large type of local mud crab rather than the Sri Lankan type or the China type of huge crabs. You can differentiate it with the thickness of the shell, local onces have thinner shell so easier on the dinner table. The meat is tender and taste is much more 'sweeter' or 鲜甜. Local crabs definitely will softer for the pocket :-)

The restaurant will be relocating starting today onwards. Will keep posted of the new location.

韩凤Korean Restaurant

韩凤Korean Restaurant
16 Cheong Chin Nam Road (+65-64657806)
Closed every TUESDAY

This is a Korean restaurant serving authentic Korean food from cold buckwheat noodles to BBQ meat. For starters they will give a set 6 plates of appetizers including Kimchi. Their Kimchi is best, taste it yourself to experience it :-)



What is nice? I personally will recommend Sam Gye Tang (Ginseng Chicken Soup). Their serving is large enough for 2 person and cost $16++. The soup is cooked with a whole spring chicken stuffs with sticky rice, chestnut and Korean ginseng of course. The soup taste is just perfect not too strong with the Ginseng while the sticky rice is so well cook that it absorbed the fragrance of the chicken and ginseng well mixed together. Try it to believe it, it's worth the money and I gurantee you will be back for it.