Melaka (Malacca), the popular Malaysian Cuisine haven

Delicious Cuisine available in Melaka

One of the most important things to do in Melaka (Malacca) is to taste the delicious Malaysian cuisine found in abundance in this tiny state. Melaka (Malacca) food has a special place in the “tummy“ of Malaysian and Singaporean. You could see the evidence in the mushrooming of food stalls, eatery places and restaurants that feed their hungry customers around Melaka.

Apart from the normal or basic Malaysian cuisine like Malay food, Chinese food and Indian food that you could find in the other states of Malaysia, we offer a slight different fusion of food like Portuguese cuisine and Baba Nyonya cuisine which add a new frontier of flavour to our local Melakan cuisine.

If you are totally “foreign“ with Malaysian cuisine, let me give you some simple introduction to our local food.

The delicious Satay with Ketupat (rice cake).

Satay. What is satay?

As you could see, satay is our version of mini barbecue. The meat (normally chicken meat and beef) are cut into small pieces and marinated with special satay spices. Later the marinated meat will be pierced using a stick called “lidi“ and grilled to perfection.

You could eat it hot from the grill or dipped it with spicy peanut sauce. It’s all up to you! They serve satay with cubed cucumber and sliced onions.

Another version of satay found exclusively in Melaka is called Satay Celup. This is your own C.I.Y (Cook it yourself) satay. Unlike satay, satay celup offers a wide range of variety (prawns, fish meat, fish balls, vegetables, eggs, chicken meat, crab meat and the list goes on and on), all you need to do is to dip the uncooked/raw ingredients of your choice into the boiling sauce located in the center of your table.

What to do next? Stuff in the delicious food-lah! Have a look at my personal Melaka Satay Celup Directory here.

 

Nasi Lemak wrapped with banana leaves & newspaper.

Nasi lemak is a popular Malaysian cuisine for breakfast. It is a dish whereby the rice is cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaves. Nasi lemak is a typical Malay fast food cuisine. It is normally packed using banana leaves and served with fried ikan bilis, ground peanuts, cucumber, boiled or fried eggs and sambal (Chili).

Aside from the ready packed nasi lemak found in the coffee shop, we also have Nasi Lemak Berlauk. “Berlauk“ in malay means that “together with dishes“.

Therefore, you have the options to feast the rice with a variety of dishes like chicken rendang, prawns sambal, squid sambal, beef curry or simply with fried chicken and vegetable!

Malaysian Breakfast: Roti Canai with curry sauce.

Next on the introduction list is our Malaysia bread “roti canai“. Like the typical bread, the main ingredient of roti canai is flour. You can order it plain (like plain white bread) or with extras like eggs and onions.

As usual, we Malaysian like to eat our food to be slightly spicy. Therefore, we have the option to eat or dip our roti canai with curry sauce or “dal sauce with sambal“.

As for children, we have the non-spicy sauce called “dal sauce“ or kacang dal for them. Sometimes the children prefer to dip it with white sugar!

Let’s move on to the noodles category. Laksa is one of the Malaysian cuisines under the noodles category.

Asam Laksa: My favourite

Generally, laksa is spicy and could be divided into two big categories namely Asam Laksa and Nyonya Laksa. The taste of asam laksa is more towards sourish and fishy taste as the base of its soup will be minced fish meat, shrimp paste and asam water. Therefore the colour of Asam laksa soup will be brownish-black.

The mouth-watering Nyonya Laksa

The soup of Nyonya Laksa is yellowish-red in colour. It uses coconut milk as one of the soup ingredients; the spicy taste of the soup is added with a slight creamy taste of coconut milk. You could eat your Nyonya Laksa with different types of noodles namely mee, bihun or kuey-tiow.

As for dessert, cendol is a must try when you are here in Melaka (Malaca). It is particularly synonym with Melaka. Thanks to the usage of thick brown syrup called Gula Melaka (A type of palm sugar). This local dessert is definitely an excellent choice to quench your thirst after a tour around Melaka.

Cendol is served cold (shaved ice) in a small bowl with gula Melaka, coconut milk and boiled red beans. My mouth is watering and I am swallowing my saliva thinking of these!

Now lets move on to the Malaysian cakes and cookies.

There are plenty of local cakes and cookies known locally as “kuih“ for you to choose from. Just pick up your “kuih“ and pop it inside your mouth.

Nyonya Cakes: Kueh Ku, Lepat Kacang, Rempah Udang, Gading Galuh & Kuih Genggang

The local cakes shown in the photograph are typical Nyonya cakes namely kueh Ku or Ang Ku Kueh, Lepat Kacang, Rempah Udang, Gading Galuh and Kuih Genggang.

What are you waiting for? Come and join the Malaysian cuisine feast in Melaka City and you will never live to regret.

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