Eating Malacca In Half A Day

What does one do if one is given a day in Malacca, well half a day more like it? Why, eat of course! Hahaha....So, the weekend is creeping up soon, and I love short weekend trips, impromptu ... throw caution to the wind, jump into the car and drive away towards the horizon. Oh well, at least towards Malacca's horizon for this post :o)


So what did we do? With limited time, we headed for the usual spots ...


Hoe Kee Chicken Rice
4, Jalan Hang Jebat (Jonker St)
7.30am-4pm, closes last Wednesday of the month


Somewhere already familiar to me (blogged one of my previous visits HERE), we sat down and put in our usual orders and in a jiffy, the food arrived.

Eating rice balls more for the sake of novelty as I do find it a tad mushy for me. However, it's still tasty.

And then, the mandatory order of chicken

And to make it even yummier, I normally drizzle my chicken rice with some black sauce. Don't know why, been eating chicken rice this way since I was a kid.


So what is next on the list? Desserts of course!

Known as Museum Cafe, Jonker Dessert 88 gave us a bit of reprieve from the hot sun as we managed to get a table though it was pretty crowded when we reached there. What more ... we had icy desserts to slurp on :p We enjoyed looking around the cafe; spotting some memorabilia from the past that gave a special feel to the place. We actually sat for quite awhile till the crowd was gone (see the pic above!).

Ash's Baba Cendol - with the standard fragrant palm sugar/Gula Melaka, coconut milk and ice shavings over a bed of cendol. It tasted great though I'm not one who like chewing on the green bean flour thingy :o)

Kev's Sago Cendol with the same make up but with additional Sago; starch from the sago palm.

I opted for the usual Ice Kacang ... with all the usual condiments. I really enjoyed it as the Gula Melaka was thick and rich in flavour and everything else just tasted heavenly when the ice melted with the blend of coconut milk. Ahhh....lovely!

Jonker Dessert 88 (Museum Cafe)
88, Jonker Walk Jalan Hang Jebat
Daily 10.00am - 6.00pm
Saturdays 10.00am - 10.00pm


After walking around and checking out the other sights in Malacca...we decided to do an early dinner before we head back home to KL. We settled on Capitol Satay Celup. Sort of a steamboat with skewered meat or vegetables, the skewers are dipped into the peanut sauce with comprises of many types of spices like dried chili, lemon grass, turmeric and galangal too (to name a few).

Since we were early, we had to wait for them to set up the table and prepare the sauce right in front of us (or maybe they do this throughout the course?) We picked our selection from the display chiller ... I had found it rather odd to be placing the skewers right onto the tray that folks normally use as a serving tray and not onto plates :s

I find eating Satay Celup to be a rather messy experience. Hahhaa....sauce bubbling hot and over, skewers that left a trail of sauce on the table while being transferred from the pot to the plate, pork balls that decided to make a "run for it". I came with great expectations but felt that it fell short on the taste factor. I must say that we had fun eating here though, it's a great eating activity for groups!


Capitol Satay Celup Restaurant
41 Lorong Bukit Cina
Tel : 06-2835508, 012-2295505
Daily from 5:00 pm (Closed on Monday)


Traveling to eat like this is fun, we should all do this more often and for those who haven't, why don't you start now? Not everything needs to be planned ;o)

Carpe Diem! Have a great weekend :o)