Returning from a recent trip from Singapore, some friends and I decided to stop by Melaka for lunch to savour some local delicacies, chicken rice balls and cendol. Our first stop for the main course, Kedai Kopi Chung Wah.

As Melaka is situated halfway between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the crowds coming in to Melaka on the weekends pack the restaurants across Jonker Street during lunch time. Some queues would require you to wait up to half an hour outside the restaurant. Therefore, if you aim to pay Melaka a visit during the long weekends, do plan your trip in advance.

Inside is a relatively small space with marble top tables and simple wooden chairs, typical decor of a common kopitiam (common Malaysian term to describe a coffee shop).

Hainanese chicken rice is not only popular amongst tourists like myself, but locals as well. Kopitiam Chung Wah is one of the earliest spots to offer the rice balls in Melaka.

Being the only dish that they serve at this Kopitiam, each table would be served with five rice balls per person, unless requested otherwise. The chicken is served on a plate to share accompanied by a common dipping sauce of garlic, chili, ginger, vinegar and soya sauce. The rice balls itself were rather moist and were nothing too fancy. In my opinion, having this dish is more for the novelty of eating ball-shaped rice.

After a hearty lunch, and seeing how hot and humid the weather was, we had to have something to cool us off. Jonker Dessert 88 is a shop located in the middle of Jonker street. Besides serving desserts, there are also other dishes such as laksa available. It is in the form of a museum cafe which was legally formed in 1997.

However, our main purpose of the visit was to try their array of cendol that was listed outside the shop. Here you make your order, collect it and pay on the spot.

The basic ingredients of this dessert consist of shaved ice, starch noodles with pandan flavouring, red beans, coconut milk and gula melaka (which is formed from processing the sap of a coconut tree).

The gula melaka here is really thick which is definitely more sinful, but much more to our liking. It’s so thick that the ladle just rests on top of it.

This is definitely one of the best cendols I’ve had so far. The thick gula melaka is something that you can’t find in dessert places in Kuala Lumpur, as it usually tends to be much lighter. Of course, if you do have a sweet tooth, you could always ask them to add more gula melaka, which they would be happy to do so.

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Kedai Kopi Chung Wah

18 Jalan Hang Jebat

Located at the beginning of Jonker Street, opposite OCBC bank and at the corner of Tan Boon Seng Bridge

Non-Halal

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Jonker Dessert 88

No. 88 Jalan Hang Jebat

75200 Melaka

Non-halal

Phone: +60 19 251 7667

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Limau-Limau cafe

We stumbled upon this little cafe while wandering around Jonkers street looking for brunch. This quaint little cafe is nicely accomodated in the old shop houses lining the road. We were drawned to it because it had a very unique artsy feel . It had a bar with where they served everything from teas, fruit shakes to beer. Its walls were lined with aroma burners and little decorative arts for sale.

Aromatherapy incense sold here

They had a couple of chandeliers and little mirrors stringed together that they hung from the ceiling above. Lots of paintings and pictures lined the walls, mostly done by local artists. Very inspiring. How could you say no to a place like that? An urban chic cafe in the middle of the most historic town in Malaysia?

Local art pieces by local artists

So inside we headed and grabbed a seat at the back of the cafe. The menu served was a western based menu , with sandwhiches, foccacia bread and pastas. The price? Well, for someone from KL, lets just say the prices were reasonable. The price ranges from RM6.90 to RM15.90 for a main meal. Not too bad.

No wall was left untouched, all decorated artistically.

We ordered , Banana Pancakes (RM6.90) and a dragonfruit + lychee fruit shake (RM9.90) to share. Another interesting thing about this place is that they have really cool combinations of fruit shakes and also a few cool sandwhiches like mango and chicken foccasia or dragonfruit and chicken sandwhich. Interesting..

Healthy goodness -Dragonfruit + lychee fruit shake-

Our fruit shake (dragonfruit + lychee + Milk + Ice Cream) came in a big glass, oozing with thick pink, creamy goodness. A deliciously refreshing combination with the two fruits complementing each other well. Not to mentioned it helped us get over the heat stroke we had from the heat outside.

Banana pancakes drizzled with fresh honey and a side of ice cream

Our banana pancakes came with a generous serve of bananas layered on our pancakes and two huge scoops of vanilla ice cream. Not bad for the price we paid. Enjoyed every bite knowing that it will help fuel us for the rest of our exploration of the town.

Good place , good service will definitely be back for more!! Those who are visiting Jonker street, be sure to check this place out.

Limau-limau Cafe

No.49, Jalan Hang Jebat,

75200 Melaka

Cuisine: Western Fusion Asian

Email: limaulimau@gmail.com

Map to Limau-Limau cafe

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