First time to Melaka for me, Food fan and I really had great time there. Not only the place is rich with historical places and beautiful view but also importantly the foods were fantastic and superb.
We stayed in Equatorial hotel, best located hotel and thanks to Food fan's friend who recommended this hotel, very close to the well known landmarks of Melaka and for shopholic, it is very close to the shopping mall. I know I am abit carried away about Melaka here than my usual food review but hey... I wanna share great experience...
The first food we had in Melaka was the Nasi Lemak which was pre-packed and only cost us RM1.50 per pack. Oh My God! the Nasi Lemak was fantastic and it was really delicious; the rice has well- balanced rich taste of coconut milk and the texture was right although the sambal was too hot yet perfect for me (I have to drink the cendol everytime I ate the rice but I did finish it up...hehe..) Food fan proud of me... thanks... and I am proud of myself too... You see to that extend the deliciousness of the Nasi Lemak and it was sold at street food stall. For those who are not keen about eating at "Kaki Lima" , we do understand the concern is about the cleanliness and so on and we are particular as well but this place is reasonably clean.
At the same stall, they sell very nice cendol; it was less sweet and everything is perfect. The stall called Cendol Jam Besar (Clock Tower) near to the Masjid Selat Melaka street sign and it is nice place to relax after visiting nearby museum and to quench the thirst after few miles walk.
One of the "must- go" places in Melaka is Jonker street (walk) or the Hang Jebat street where it is famous for selling antiques and where we had found the most tasty and delicious Otak-Otak we have ever eat so far. The shop is called Gu Pong, it sells variety of dried foods and also serve very limited choice set of dishes. However saying so, none of the dishes we ordered failed our palate.
Nasi Sambal Sotong Mee Goreng with Sambal
Prawn Otak-Otak Fish Otak-Otak
The Mee goreng with sambal was nice as its own; no distinctive strong flavour than its well blend flavour of fresh ingredients like spring onion, fresh noodles and bean sprouts but mixing it with the sambal is much better taste except again the sambal was hot for me.
However, I can tolerate with the rest of the dishes, the sambal sotong was great; the cuttlefish was well cooked- the texture was soft and not chewy and again, you can taste the freshness flavour of the cuttlefish.
The moist of the Otak-Otak and the gorgeous flavour swimming around our mouth really made us said "wow" and then speechless. Seriously, this is the best Otak- Otak ever so far.
The price for each dish is reasonable to us; the fried noodle and rice was less than RM6 except the Otak- Otak which was RM12 per plate but trust us; it is worth every cent...
