Eating in Melaka
Eating in Melaka is great and we love going back for food. Of course we will not go to famous places with lots of tourist with crazy crowds queing on the middle of the road (pic here on our national paper), under the hot sun standing in the middle of the road, waiting for a table during weekends and public holiday. If we want to dine at such places, hubby will take leave on weekday where you can see the shop owners actually sitting there chasing flies waiting for people to come.
Dim Sum at Tengkera (corner shop, same row with the famous Satay Celup)
We usually have heavy breakfasts in Melaka. Having dim sum in Melaka is very much cheaper as compare to what we have here (although they have increase the price a lot over the years). Our favourite place for the best “Tai Pau” is at the Ban Hong Xiang Tea House at Gajah Berang (also another crazy place with crazy crowds where we have to help ourselves snatching the steaming hot Big Pau once they are out from the kitchen to the steaming bamboo tray, but hubby prefers this one at Tengkera (forgot name of the show) with less crowd and easier parking.
We were lucky that the kids were fast asleep on the 2nd night. Guess where hubby and I sneak out to while the maid keep on eye on them in the room (with my parents at home)?
The Portugis Square
Hubby and I took a stroll to the Portugis Settlement, which is only a very short walking distance away. I was so surprise that there are so much changes made to the Portugis Settlement with so many new stalls selling seafood facing a very beautiful sea facing walkway and a modern jetty (replacing the broken wooden jetty where I used to play with my friends).
Butter Garlic Baked Scallop (bottom) Tepung Goreng Sotong (Top)
Sorry for the lousy pictures (I forgot to bring out my camera) and also missing scallops (which already ended in our stomach). Price of the seafood here is a little bit higher than those fishing village in Serkam, Muara Sg.Duyong and Crystal Bay.
- 100g Fish Rm4
- 100g Squid Rm3
- 100g Scallop Rm7
When our food arrived, it is almost 12 midnight. By then almost all food were sold and yet there are so many people coming over to take their heavy dinner (with rice some more!).
Can u let me know where is the Portugis Settlement for seafoods? Tomorrow evening we will be going down to Melaka for makan-makan trip. Hmm….hopefully can try the Mille Crepe and famous seafoods.
oh…my eye hook on the stuff crab… yumz
hey wanna check with u the location of the Portugese Square. Wanna try it out the next time we go there..
So nice get to sneak out with hubby for supper.
so nice to have moonlight pak toh time. We go to Portugese Settlement very often when we are back in Melaka. Black pepper crab, yum yum.
BTW, do u know where is this Milie Crepe thing??
[...] A trip back to Melaka would not complete if we do not go to feast at our favourite place at Gajah Berang. My brother always insists having breakfast at Ban Hong Xiang Tea House, which most Melaccan believe that they serve the tastiest Pau in the whole wide world! They serve Dim Sum and even small plates of Fried Oyster too, but taste is so-so only. As hubby prefers Loh Mai Kai to Pau, he still prefer to go to another dim sum shop nearby. [...]