Malaysia Food

Location: N02 16.4596 E102 12.9680 Cheng, Melaka

Getting there: Have no clue. Enter from Air Keroh – SG Udang Highway.

Meal: Dinner

Ikan Kurau Bakar seems to be the speciality. An expensive choice for a fish but well worth the cost. Nasi Lemak comes highly recommended. The nasi lemak is very Chinese style, and for dinner?

The Ikan Bakar was very spicy with strong accents of kunyit. Baked just right with the Kurau soft and juicy. Would recommend ordering the fillet as it is much easier to eat.

Prawns were a tad off and too watery for the spicy thick gravy.

Ratings:
Food: 8/10
Service: 6/10
Value: 7/10

Remarks: The nasi lemak and prawns were not fresh when I had them. Shop has a “A” rating for cleanliness.

Location: N02 11.890 E102 15.073 Melaka, Melaka

Getting there: Along Jalan Bunga Raya.
Meal: Dinner

At the front, I found a long queue of people waiting for their fried oyster. At the back of the food court is a drink stall and a tai chow. It seems the order is to order your fried oyster at the front and begin your meal at the back and come back to the fried oyster stall to wait for your fried oysters. Did I mention t is a long wait? Yes, I had 2 rounds of tai chow and still have to wait for the fried oyster. A little disorganised it seems, I seem to have been pushed back in the queue. The person before me is long gone. With me hanging around and started to be a little free, wielding a camera around, I seem to be back on the list and the first in queue for the next batch.

Anyway, no chopstick or plates for the fried oyster. They give it to you in a wrap, give them the cash and scram. This is where you table and cutleries from the the tai chow stall becomes useful.

Ratings:
Food: 7/10
Service: 3/10
Value: 8/10

Remarks: Long queue on weekends. List is in RM value, no person description when ordering. Disorganised priority list when queue is long, your order may be forgotten.

Location: N02 11.821 E102 14.860, Melaka, Melaka

Getting there: Opposite Masjid Kling. Along Jalan Tukang Besi.

Meal: Breakfast

Not many stalls open early in Melaka. This happen to be one of them for early birds like me. Unfortunately, not many good early works in Melaka. The front of the shops many local looking people in clothes that would be suitable to be worn at home. I think no one would flinch if I wore my pagoda t-shit.

I had difficulty getting the name of the shop because there are not romanised test in the shop, other than the advertisements posted on the wall and the label of my Lipton tea. I got the name translated from pictures I took from the shop. The shop owner is very selectively generous with name cards. Gave to 2 girls who are fashionably dressed taking pictures of each other as opposed to poorly dressed and discretely taking pictures like me.

Biasness aside, from the business card stinginess. Food is average, pretty much like food you’d find anywhere. Edible is an accomplishment in this state and I think they have achieve an edible stage.

Ratings:
Food: 6/10
Service: 5/10
Value: 5/10

Remarks: Rather touristy in nature (by price) although there are local crowds and drinks seems home made style.

Location: N02 22.9380 E102 12.6390 Alor Gajah, Melaka

Getting there: Off the Alor Gajah roundabout, opposite the MPAG office. It is at the end lot of food stalls with an island counter.

Meal: Lunch

The stall seems to be the main buzz in the food stall row, in fact, possibly the only buzz in town. The business has outgrown the allocated lot and has expanded to a counter opposite the stall. The counter seems very factory like, with ingredients in bucket and dozen of bottles of chilli sauce and buckets of kuih udang and sauce ready for take away.

The presentation is very much like rojak pasembur, instead of peanut sauce, it is replaced by chilli sauce. The kuih udang was very starchy but edible. Tofu was a little rancid, hardly any vegetable but all other ingredients were ok.

Ratings:

Food: 4/10
Service: 8/10
Value: 8/10

Remarks: If you are in town during lunch and have no idea what to eat, edible food is hard to come by. Edible food with decent service seems to make it big in this town. Not on my recommendation list, but nice to know where to find edible food if you are in town.

Location: N02 11.1362 E102 15.6345 Melaka, Melaka

Getting there: Along the main road at a place called Melaka Raya.

Meal: Lunch

The place claims to serve home cooked food; the chef must be staying in the kitchen to call it home.

I had deserts early; the ice kacang size was surprising, came in a very small bowl and a really petit size. The goodies at the bottom is generous and topped generously with gula melaka syrup. The combination is rather sweet because of the generous spread of the coconut sugar. Quite sloppy work with presentation, my hand got coated with sugar just touching the base of the bowl.

The rice came in a large bowl to be share in the table. I had otak-otak, kangkung belacan and eggplant (brinjal or aubergine) for the main course. The otak-otak is quite good; however, I think it lacked pepper leaf (daun kaduk). The vegetable is quite good too.

Ratings:

Food: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Value: 5/10

Remarks: Waiter or waitresses are pushy with the menu, recommending the expensive stuff.