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Local food: Fresh seafood nearby the beach
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  • Updated By ukirsari on March 11, 2008
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  • fried prawn (c) ukirsari - Melaka
    fried prawn (c) ukirsari
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    Fresh prawn fried with butter and served hot with steamed rice. And Bok who always asking about "chilli padi" [small green chilli diced and added soy sauce in it] make me try to add this sauce in my seafood and ... it's sooooo delicious!!!

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  • Theme: Seafood
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
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    Local food: The Best Malay Style Chicken Rice in Melaka
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  • Updated By Azri_Azmi on July 29, 2006
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  • Nasi Ayam Special Restaurant Lorong Pandan - Melaka
    Nasi Ayam Special Restaurant
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    by Azri_Azmi, 4 more photos
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    This restaurant is a well known restaurant for a chicken rice malay style. I think we can catagories this chicken rice here in Malaysia to 4 main categories that represent 3 major races in Malaysia plus the 'mamak' chicken rice. The owner now is having 2 branches and i think it will expand to many more branches as the number of customers keep increasing. One is situated in Jalan Bachang (a bit difficult to park your car as it is closely next to the main road) and another branch is at Jalan Lorong Pandan. Staff are friendly and neatly in uniform. Place is clean and good arrangement of table.

    Chicken Rice offered :- i) Normal Chicken Rice at RM3.00 ii)Special Chicken Rice at RM5.00. The only different between this two meals is the Special Chicken Rice comes with more potion of chicken and rice, kinda like an XL size of chicken rice. Taste is so superb and the sauce (chilli) that goes along with this rice is unique with its own identity taste. I notice that they mix this sauce with soup/chicken stock.

    They also are offering varieties of local dishes, satay and the famous 'Otak - Otak Kempas'.

    Special Chicken Rice, the potion comes with this menu is just right for an adult. Tasteful sauce and soup. They even pour 2 type of oil during preparation, can't figure what oil, sesame + fish oil maybe on top of the chicken & salads that makes this dish taste delicious.

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  • Address: Restoran Nasi Ayam Special, Lorong Pandan, Melaka
  • Phone: 0126230441

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    Local food: Seafood party :)
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  • Updated By ukirsari on March 11, 2008
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  • stir-fried seafood with veggie (c) ukirsari - Melaka
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    Again, there are so many seafood stalls along Portuguese Square. From Peranakan [Strait-born Chinese] to Portuguese - Malay style. One of them is fried snapper with onion and tomato. Added with chilli padi sauce. Truely delicious :)

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    Local food: Satay Celup...!!!
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  • By yeikloen on June 29, 2003
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  • Satay Celup - Melaka
    Satay Celup
    by yeikloen
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    This is something that you can only find in Melaka as far as I know till now...!!!, How you do it, is to dip your skewel into a boiling satay sauce. Come in a few varieties, prawns, cockles, pig's stomach, deep fried devil (yau char kwai), pig's ear, pork, taufu, meat ball, and many many more.

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  • Theme: Local
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  • Address: Along Jalan Ong Kim Wee
  • Directions: Right opposite of Global Furniture

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    Local food: 88 Antiques & Cafe
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  • Updated By chiabh on December 15, 2006
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  • 88 Cafe... - Melaka
    88 Cafe...
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    The restaurant is sort of part of the antique historial show piece of historical Melaka... The interior of the restaurant is cool with exhibits of the nyona heritage... There are bits and pieces of nyoya artifacts on display together with chairs and tables of bygone days...

    The restaurant is noted for its nyona delicacies... with the nyona assam laksa, ice kachang (or ABC)... It is have a good variety of nyona cakes for sale...

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  • Theme: Local
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  • Address: Jonker Street, Melaka
  • Directions: The resturant is along Jonker Street and is easily noted with its green "88" sign protuding out of the shop front...

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    Local food: Hoe Kee Chicken Shop
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  • Updated By chiabh on December 15, 2006
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  • Hoe Kee Chicken Shop... - Melaka
    Hoe Kee Chicken Shop...
    by chiabh
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    The restaurant is just across the bridge from the Stadthuy... on the left side of Joner Street... It is very popular restaurant and you will always see people queuing up during lunch and dinner time...

    The speciality is of course chicken rice... The restuarant service both "ball" rice as well as normal rice in plate or bowl... Besides chicken, there are also other side dishes such as barbeque pork, stir-fried vegetables.... and not to forget the chicken "spare parts" as well...

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  • Theme: Local
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  • Address: Jonker Street, Melaka
  • Directions: Just across the bridge from the Stadthuy...

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    Local food: Restoran Famosa Chicken Rice Ball
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  • Updated By chiabh on December 15, 2006
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  • Restoran Famosa... - Melaka
    Restoran Famosa...
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    Melaka is note for its chicken rice with a difference... ie the rice comes in the shape of a ball... but of course, you can also ask for the normal plate of rice...

    Of course, as the name suggests, the main dish is chicken rice... with the chicken steamed, roasted ro barbeque... you can also order side orders such as chicken "spare parts", stir-fried vegetables etc to go with the chicken...

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  • Theme: Local
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  • Address: Jonker Street, Melaka
  • Directions: The restaurant is at the start of Jonker Street, across the small bridge from the Stadthuy...

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    Local food: Best Cafe
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  • Updated By mary2u99 on March 20, 2007
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  • Sambal sotong, pickel and sambal belachan - Melaka
    Sambal sotong, pickel and
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    We were very hungry after the 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur so we walk around to look for some local Baba Nyonya restaurant. We found this Kopitiam very near to Jonker Street. We were looking for another restaurant but could not find it so we decided to have our lunch here instead

    The food was delicious but then we were very hungry and its reasonably price to and the owner was very friendly and recommended us some dishes.

    We had Sambal sotong (squid cooked in chili), Ayam pongteh( Chicken cooked with potato), Cincaluk omelette (omelette cooked with salted small shrimp). Asparagus Belachan (asparagus cooked in shrimp paste), Fried chicken.

    I enjoy the home made cendol( shaved ice serve with gula melaka, coconut milk and pandan jelly).


    The meal cost RM83.50 for 5 adult and one child.

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  • Theme: Local
  • Price: US$21-30    » Currency Converter
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  • Address: No13, Lorong Hang Jebat, 7500 Melaka
  • Phone: 06 282 7682

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    Local food: hotel Nyonya Food
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  • Updated By Audrey118 on January 9, 2003
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  • Local food - Melaka
    by Audrey118
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    This restaurant is located on the 3rd floor of Hotel Equatorial - it is very popular for entertainment, and the nyonya food here is reasonablly well done. Prices are also reasonable - I would say good for being part of a hotel. But I was not soo impressed with the food to want to rush there. But if I have foriegner friends who want to try nyonya food - I would take them there - the atmosphere is pretty good and the variety is great, and the place is interesting. Becos - they serve water in this container - metal that I can r'ber some people (maybe people in Mainland China still do that) rinse their mouth daily in!!! There is also sit on the floor to eat if you want. The food comes out piping hot - but I found it a little oily.

    Three of us had lunch, we did not order drink and just had water - which was so so cold and nice. We ordered popiah - 2 to share which was ample - the skin was delicious although the filling was ordinary, It lacks the pork stuffing you would get from the hawker. The restaurant is Halal. Then we had ayam sioh - or something like that name - it is chicken cooked which spices - I highly recommend that against chicken pongteh. Then we had nyonya taufoo - i hate that becos it was Japanese taufo, and we had fried kangkong vegetables with sambal belcan - a little oily, but tasty. We also had fried fish with salt and chilli - it was very fresh the fish - but it was greasy.And the two boys had cendol for dessert which they said was pretty good. the meal only cost RM85

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  • Address: 3rd Floor Hotel Equatorial Bandar Hilir
  • Directions: near Mahkota Parade

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    Local food: Assam Fish and Otak Otak
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  • By Audrey118 on November 17, 2002
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  • Steamed otak and assam fish - Melaka
    Steamed otak and assam fish
    by Audrey118
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    Some local gave us this tip - to have assam fish made popular by the cooks from a neighbouring town Muar, and also the Muar famous otak otak - which is like a souffle of fish and prawns. I swear by the otak otak - which is steamed to perfection and has just enough fish meat and prawns, and also the souffle bit is aromatic. I even bought some frozen ones home to steam for dinner this week. Other diners had fried fish and also others had squid with sambal whcih all looked delicious.

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  • Theme: Local
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  • Address: 500 Taman Melaka Raya
  • Phone: 06 2822768
  • Directions: along the main street of Melaka Raya when you see Public Bank on the left, take the right turn into a lane and drive on till you see this shoplot with lots of small lantern. it is a corner lot

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