Chinese food, Melaka

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The boss of Ringo's Foyer recommended this coffeshop for breakfast. We ordered a couple of the dim sum: Lo mai gai(steamed glutinous rice with chicken), chee cheong fun, chicken feet, Lo mai gai, pork rib in black bean sauce, yam roll and a pot of chinese tea. What is dim sum without chinese tea?

It was interesting to watch the process of making chee cheong fun at the cart. You don't get to see this process in full view in front of the coffeeshops in Singapore. The chee cheong fun is freshly made upon order; rice flour mixture is poured and spread onto a large piece of muslim cloth with a special steaming tray below. It was covered and steamed for a few minutes, then prawns and chopped char siew were added to it and then steamed further. After that it was rolled, cut to pieces and sauces were added. The taste was not too bad but not fantatic either. The pork ribs are not so flavourful but tender. The yam roll was a total let down; it was not crispy and was cold and soft. Overall, the dim sum offered here is just average.

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This well-known place, with lots of photos of important looking people on the walls, is located on Jonker Street in the heart of Chinatown. It specialises in Chinese food and its uniquely Melakan namesake dish: rice balls served with steamed chicken and chilli sauce. Except for the roundness, it's identical to the chicken rice you'll find in Singapore or elsewhere in Malaysia. Also on the menu are roast pork, duck and curry dishes.

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A must-try for every visitor to Melaka, a lotta Chicken Rice-Balls restaurants in the Jonker street area, but I think this is one of my favourite.

Favorite Dish: Of course, the rice balls and the steamed-chicken. Dip the rice balls & steamed-chicken into the special chilli sauce before muching it, it is heaven. Why can't they have this in Oslo?

10 minutes from town. Your choice of open-air area or under a roof. Two foodcourts joined to bring more varieties of local foods. No worries about parking spaces.

Favorite Dish: Must try: Fried rice/kuey teow stall, Hot plate seafood, Sea food mee, Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun, Chui Kuey, Satay, Cendol/Ice-Kacang/ABC deserts, Lok-lok, Ikan Bakar, Fried oyster, Chicken rice ball, Asam pedas rice & many more!

This chain is not too bad at all. Ideal if you are not too adventurous with street food or are unsure about what local foods to try.

There are a lot of these Chicken Rice Ball restaurants around and I found the food interesting, tasty and generally OK!! They are not as cheap as the local food stalls or markets but the quality and quantity was fine.

It's a cheapish place to go if you are worried about what you might be eating in the streets....

Favorite Dish: Chines Rice Balls - and the roast chicken wasn't too bad either - not a traditional roast by any means.

A normal coffee shop. The big Bao (Chinese call it "Dua Bao") is a pork-filled bun, which is quite tasty and filling. Also try the Aluminum foil-wrapped herbal chicken meat and glutinous rice with chicken meat topping ( CHinese call it "Lor Mai Gai").

It's a Chinese Resto, with specialized in rice ball, Hainan chicken and roast duck. Plus several traditional and modern drinks, like jelly grass, sugar cane and lemonade.

Favorite Dish: There's 4 types of steam rice served here. Original steamed, steamed with flavor [salty] called Hainan rice, Hainan rice made like ball [called rice ball] and dark brown rice ball [maybe using different type of rice].

I prefer the Hainan rice ball which seems so compact and fit with my chopstick. Then undebatable roast duck and steam chicken. Both of them are crispy and delicious. Added with veggie, cucumber and light soup as assortments.

General:
The restaurant is probably one of the more famous ones in Melaka and is frequented by both local and foreigners. Despite it being a weekday it was full in no time. However visitors need not worry as there is space aplenty. It is huge restaurant and they have taken 3 shoplots on the ground and 1st floor. I heard they will be moving to a new premise soon.

Food:
The food was great and preety close to home cooking. Salt content was good and no use of MSG (from experience did not fell excessively thirsty after the meal).

Service:
Service was fast and due credit should be given to the owners/management. A waiter was ready to take our order a few minutes after we were seated. And in 10 mins or so the 5 dishes we ordered had all arrived piping hot ready to be enjoyed.

Parking:
Parking might be a problem especially on weekends as the space in front of the restaurant gets full preety quick.

Favorite Dish: The braised pork ribs served with soft steamed bun is a must try. Succulent and tender pieces of meat that you need to stuff into a steam bun is simply heavenly. Not for those who are watching their cholesterol levels.