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Jonker 88 Desserts @ Jonker Street
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Our lunch cum breakfast is at this famous Jonker 88 Desserts @ Jonker Street. The location is just at middle of the road serves few home-made cendol and ice kacang.
Jonker 88 Desserts @ Jonker Street
If you do not know where to eat the good food here, just observe around. The shop with many people line up is always the best and well known.
The best thing of this desert is it’s filled with Gula Melaka (palm sugar) which taste very sweet. The sweetness doesn’t maintain long in your mouth. It will gone into your throat with cold icy. OMG, its taste too goood!
The stall is require you to self-service even though there are few workers walk around busily.
Combination of food and desert makes perfect at Jonker88. I tried their Baba Laksa, served with some cucumber and onion slices, tofu pok and a spoon of tuna. The taste is not as hot as curry and sour as asam. It just make my day when I finished the entire bowl include the soup.
Early morning do not have the crowd compare to lunch hour and night which is very hard to get the table. People just standing outside and opposite the shop to enjoy the ice-kacang.
The restaurant ambiance is giving me a 30′s era. We took group photograph of four only.
My makan-makan trip wouldn’t complete without this visit and order ice-kacang at least. In fact, there are few flavours to try out. I’m sure drop by every time I visit Melaka.
Chicken Rice Ball @ Hoe Kee
01140 days
Chicken Rice Balls is one of the uniqueness in Melaka. It’s nothing much different from Hainanese Chicken Rice. We beat our appetite in our recent trip of Jom Makan-Makan at Melaka @ 28 Mar 2009.
Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Ball @ Jonker Street
You can see this Jonker Street board (attached on new renovated building) when you coming from Jalan Laksamana (Christ Church) towards Lorong Hang Jebat. This building known as Sam Shu Gong which sell varieties traditional biscuits and candies. It’s very similar to Tan Kim Hock food distributor that we know 20 years ago.
Beside this building is where Hoe Kee Chicken Rice is located.
As early as 11.00, I can see people start queuing. I thought at 3pm, getting a seat would be easier but then the queue is still there. People just get crazy over one place too much. In fact, there are few, but we choose this place as we feel it’s cleaner and not stuffy.
It’s all that we all get crazy about. It’s nothing except the rice is made into ping pong size and unique to Melaka food tourism.
The sticky ball is definitely better compare to my last visits. It do not break easily. Also I don’t think I’m getting enough with even 15 balls. Therefore, I prefer the normal rice.
A good try if you think what you want for your lunch. Come on, chicken rice ball at Melaka.
Capitol Satay Celup @ Melaka
51140 days
Melaka (Malacca) is being popular with one of the best of the best, that I ever heard about, Satay Celup. It’s a must eat when you visit Melaka. It is a kind of steamboat with pot of aromatic and orgasmic peanut sauce.
Restoran Capitol Satay @ Melaka
You can have satay celup as snack or as dinner (if you don’t mind the long queue). It’s my second time coming here. I do not know this place until my Melaka friend introduced to me. I’m always be the first batch of customer at 5.30PM when they just opened their shop.
By default, we were serving with Muar’s bread. I like the bread when it dipped into peanut sauce, it’s exceptionally soft and fluffy.
Capitol Satay Celup opens at 5.30PM and till late night especially on holiday eve.
What is all about the uniqueness over here? Okay, in fact, it’s similar to the steamboat. Instead of boiling pot of soup, satay celup is cooked by dipping or dunking sticks of raw foods into boiling pot of aromatically rich and spicy peanut sauce.
The other good thing is the self-service. We can take all we want and no restriction on which you like until out of stock. Probably, the best things won’t long. Each stick is offer at flat price of 70 cents per each. That’s a time when the special offer huge tiger prawn and sotong being serve on your table. It’s a bonus to have such top value food!
Other than above, there are wide variety of raw foods available for selection, such as prawns, vegetables, pork, chicken, fish balls, quail’s eggs, cockles, squids, pig’s liver, braised pig’s ears, Taiwanese sausages, and many more.
At the end of the meal, you are only pay for what you’ve eaten. However, foods in plates are priced differently, according to the plate color.
Price has been increased exponentially, from 50 cents, 60 cents and 70 cents now. While I believe in KL, the price is much higher at starting price of RM1.00 to RM1.80 (depending on stick color).
Five of us had eaten total of 66 sticks and the bill is cost us RM99. Yummy Satay Celup!!
Eco-Challenge IX @ Nur Lembah Pangsun
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Eco-Challenge is kind of activity that need physical strength and competent mindset. This version of eco-challenge, according to the organizer is more easier due to foreseeing a lot of newcomers joining in. I’m one of them. It’s a real challenge to my ability, thanks to Genting Trailblazer 2008 that I participated two weeks ago, enable me to stand the real challenge.
Eco-Challenge IX
15 November 2008
The entire activity need you to complete 12km route with non-stop challenges that you never imagine. It drained your energy to the last bar. You must finish the race no matter how you want to give up. Terrible is it? Haha.
This is my toughest challenge with 6 hours non-stop and worst come to worst, it’s raining in last one hour.WOW…a new experience for me.
Ipoh Trip 2009
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An unplanned trip to Ipoh this year. Originally, I was thinking to visit Ipoh together with nearby tourist area such as tea boh farm and hot spring. This capital of Perak is located 200km from KL. In the past, I was just passed by this city without really go around. It has been 4 years since my last trip to Ipoh. I start my journey at 8am from KL.
Ipoh Old Town Trip
7-8 March 2009
What is so interesting about Ipoh? As the capital is well-known on its own history, it’s has been made famous by the food like bean sprout chicken rice. I’m not sure whether it’s originated from here, however, it had been long associated with.
I drive along the old trunk road which save me toll payment about RM24.60. This cost is about half tank of my petrol. I don’t mind driving the slower road but I do care about the volume of vehicles on the road. It just get on my nerve.
Since it’s already lunch time at 11.30am when I reach, I settle down my lunch at famous Ipoh Chicken Rice stall. Yummy. But no pictures here. LoL. I’m not into food blogging. Keke.
