Eat Eat @ Melaka

It was a last-minute planned trip. This trip was almost called off, but still we managed to plan everything out in 1 day. Whole trip just depended on a not-so-updated GPS. Anyway, we reached Melaka at 6pm on first day. We had our Melaka food check list in mind before this trip.

1. Seafood at Portuguese Settlement

I planned to have dinner at Capitol Satay Celup, but the queue was at least 1-hour long and we were very hungry. Therefore, we go for our second plan of dinner. There were total 10 restaurants and they were numbered 1 to 10 accordingly. Once we got down from car, the restaurants' staffs approached us and hard-selling their shop to us.

Before we made our decision, we took a walk at the jetty and of cause took pictures.

At the end, Restaurant number 4 had the honor to prepare the dinner for us.

We ordered garlic and chili clam, butter garlic scallop, Portuguese grilled fish and stir-fried vege.

Our favorite was the garlic and chili clam.

 

There was slight hint of sour taste in the juice from clam. It tastes great! yum yum~

The fish was too big for 2 people, it was around 700g. The fish was nice but it was too "jelak" to finish it.

The butter garlic scallop was not bad too but I prefer it to have the garlic blended in butter sauce rather than just scattered on top.

Whole dinner cost about RM90.

2. Cendol with gula Melaka

My dear was craving for dessert after dinner, so we went for dessert-hunting at Jonker Walk. It was around 9pm and most shops were closed at that time. We went to Luiz Cafe to have a bowl of Cendol.

I am always biased against those fancy looking cafes that they charging high price for not-so-good food. However, this cendol surprisingly tasted good.

Before going back to hotel, we had a walk along Sungai Melaka (Melaka River) and Jonker Walk.

Back to hotel with more pictures in our camera. =)

3. Chicken Rice Ball

Next morning, we woke up early to have famous Hainan chicken rice ball as our breakfast. We went to Chung Wah restaurant (中华茶室) located at the start of Jonker walk (where the small fountain located). This shop is known to have good rice ball but bad chicken. This statement is verified! We had serving of chicken and rice ball for 2 person.

The rice ball taste really good that it could be eaten on its own, it also didn't break apart when we hold it up with chopstick. Chili sauce was good as well, spicy and sour. Yum! The chicken was a bit tough and rough. Still, this shop is quite popular.

Actually Hoe Kee chicken rice ball is another famous shop located at Jonker Walk, very near to Chung Wah. This shop is known to have good chicken but bad rice ball.

I tried it 3 years back, the rice ball was not as good as Chung Wah's one. This shop wasn't opened in that morning. We went in just to try their chicken when we return to Jonker Walk around 3pm. The chicken was tender and smooth, it's much better than Chung Wah's chicken.

After breakfast, it's time for sight-seeing.

Ruins of St. Paul Church at the summit of St. Paul Hill

Christ Church Melaka

4. Mille crepe at Nadeje Patisserie Cafe

Tea time!!! Must try Melaka's famous mille crepe at Nadeje. We went to the branch located at Jalan PM 4, Plaza Mahkota.

We have spend 3 hours there in this cosy cafe and  tried quite a few things on their menu.

                                                                Mille Crepe (original)

This is GOOD! The cream between crepe was smooth and light and evenly spread.

                                                   
                                                                  Strawberry tart

This tart is not as good as Levain's one. I think the tart shell was too wet and the pastry cream looks bad.

                                                                      Okonomiyaki

This is good too. The seasoning just right to my taste. =D

5. Capitol Satay Celup


Everyday there is a long queue at roadside outside the shop. We experienced and saw the long queue before, it's something you can google easily. So, we reached the place at 5:15pm, and of cause we got a table immediately. Within another 20 minutes, the queue started to form.

Satisfying dinner~

I want big prawn! I want big prawn! I want big prawn! I want big prawn!

This shop is famous for all these good expensive seafood with RM0.90 per stick. This is special treat by shop owner after we sit there for quite some time and got lots of eyeing from hungry people at the roadside.

6. Mille crepe at Nadeje Patisserie Cafe  

Oh yes...we return to Nadeje after satay celup dinner for another round of great dessert before leaving Melaka. This time we ordered paraline mille crepe with rose tea. I forgot to mention that their tea are all imported, very nice and fragrant.

Great dessert gave a perfect ending to our wonderful Melaka trip of 2. =D