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Kedai Kopi Chung Wah and Jonker Dessert 88 – Melaka
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
