Malaccan Glorious Food

Recently, if you guys have been following my Twitter, or had known me personally would have been aware that I was away for a 3 days 2 nights camp in El Sanctuary, Alor Gajah.

While the camp was a successful one with many memories well cherished and kept for a lifetime, the time spent in Malacca eating especially was an exceptional experience. The theme for our camp was Go The Distance, and boy oh boy, we definitely went the distance in eating. HAHA!

Our main highlights were of course the famous Chicken Rice Balls, which were only found in Malacca. Not to mention the infamous Satay Babi, or Pork Satay. While Satay Celup was the other main attraction, sadly we didn’t had the opportunity to try it out (oh well, that leaves an excuse for another trip down south!). We also had the opportunity to try out the Durian Cendol at Tan Kim Hock, which of course didn’t come cheap at all. >.<

On Saturday itself, we devoted the whole day to travel around Malacca. Of which we did paid a visit to Christ Church Malacca, where the concentration of tourists were, and also to the famous Fort A Famosa, but that’s a story for another day.

We visited Heng Hainanese Chicken Rice Ball for lunch, which apparently according to Ding Yan, was one of the best chicken rice balls around town. Forgot where it was as I wasn’t the driver!

Tasty Chicken Rice Balls.

They were actually quite small though, we could easily stuff one whole ball into our mouths, not to mention there was a little mutual competition going on at my table to see who can eat the most balls!

Vegetable dish.

Wasn’t too fancy about this, those who know me would know why haha! There weren’t any complaints regarding it anyway.

Yummy Steam Chicken.

The steam chicken was great, juicy and tender! Though somehow I still prefer the steam chickens I had in Kee Kee Bentong, but hey no complaints, Kee Kee Bentong’s back in Kelana Jaya and I was in Malacca!

Mouth-Watering Roast Chicken.

I loved the roast chicken!! Many times I would prefer the steam chicken over the roasted ones, but not on Saturday. The roast chicken over at Heng was surprisingly delicious, it had no burnt taste and whatsoever. It was kinda roasted to perfection that sorta feeling, you know what I’m saying? This dish, a must have.

We also ordered the Black Beans Soup, which was recommended by Heng. It’s not cheap, RM3 per bowl. I can’t take beans, so I never touched my soup, or rather, it was taken back. Hopefully it got deducted out of the bill!

I wrote on my Twitter, Saturday was Get Fat Day. We were eating so much so that we didn’t have enough time to digest!! We hit the Pork Satay right after a short walk over at Dataran Pahlawan Megamall. I actually can’t recall what was the name of the shop we had our pork satays but it was pork, and thats what matters.

Infamous PORK satay.

While it tasted heavenly, I gotta say though, they were actually quite small as compared to normal chicken satays we have around, all the more so if compared to Kajang satays which were generally bigger. Nevertheless, it was pork and we were deeply satisfied, despite just having some heavy lunch there. To non-pork lovers, HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE PORK?!

We decided to head back to El Sanctuary and resume our food expedition the next day, since it was nearing dinner time at El Sanctuary by then. Did I mention Saturday was Get Fat Day? Back at El Sanctuary, they prepared Spaghetti for dinner. Bliss!

After checking out on Sunday, we head back to Malacca town, this time to try out the durian cendol. We dropped by Tan Kim Hock for the said item. RM5 per bowl *whistles*, not cheap not cheap!! Definitely once in a lifetime thing if you ask me.

Overpriced Durian Cendol.

Nothing too special about it, only that they added durian paste on top of the ice shavings, with added sea coconut of course. The rest of the ingredients are still pretty much the same, cendol and red beans. Unnecessary costs were perhaps spent on that special orange holders that came along with it.

We passed by this stall by the road side which was selling Coconut Milk Shakes with lines that might take forever to shorten, didn’t decide to stop for it, but kinda regretting it now since I heard from another friend after I came back to Subang, that it was actually pretty famous there!

Instead, we stopped by this fruit stall which was located beside the place where the state government might wanna develop it into some kind of Malacca Gold Coast thing. DURIAN FEAST! No, they are not Malaccan food, but hey we’re Malaysians, who doesn’t like durians?!

That concludes our Malaccan food expedition, coupled up with breakfast, lunch and dinner served over at El Sanctuary, and dinner over at Seremban on Sunday night, all campers agreed we couldn’t stop eating. Best part of the camp was that, it was actually filled with both physical and spiritual food!

The only regrets of the trip were probably that we never got to taste Satay Celup and that Coconut Milk Shake thing, but hey Malacca isn’t very far away!

Well, I definitely had fun. Now I better think of dieting again.

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