Malacca is all about Eating...

Melaka food is not only about chicken rice ball and satay celup. There's a lot that locals eat that are unfamiliar to non Melakans. Anyway, it's always good to stare at bamboo chopsticks and bottles of condiments while waiting for my noodles...



Hee kiau mee, as some of you might know, is one of my perpetual favourites. It's teochew styled fishball noodles with fish wantan and funky but delicious red coloured fish cake. For the konlou version, you get to pour as much teochew chili sauce as you want to mix with the noodles.



Since I didn't have breakfast that day, I needed to have more than just the noodles... so a packet of Melaka style sieu mai accompanied by friend spring rolls and nogr hiong (meat rolls). These sieu mai are very smooth and soft unlike the ones you get at the dimsum shop. I could pop them in all day!



Dinner came and I came across perhaps the most apt pairing in the world...



Nyonya food was on the menu so we had kacang panjang fried in belacan...



Fried taufu...



And of course, ikan chili garam, which is so simple to cook, yet so DELICIOUS!



Some fishball soup as well to balance the spicy food.



The next day, it was melaka style pork satay which is more savoury than the kajang variant and has a pineapple based sauce...





Hungry yet?

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