Melaka delectable cuisine
Melaka cuisine is well-known for its lively flavours and aromas. Each community has its distinct culinary style. The city's many restaurants, cafes, food courts, pubs and fast food restaurants offer a range of dining options.
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Chinese Food Chicken rice balls are a sought-after delicacy by local Chinese visitors to Melaka. Shaped into golf-size balls, the rice is served with chicken meat, cucumber and garlic-chilli sauce. |
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Malay Food Popular Melaka favourites are safay celup (skewered seafood cooked in peanut sauce), dncaluk (fermented shrimp relish), mjak (fruit and vegetable salad), dodol (a sweet sticky palm sugar delicacy) and cendol (cold dessert with coconut milk and palm sugar syrup). |
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Portuguese Food
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Indian Food Traditional Chitty food is a delectable fusion of Indian spices and local ingredients. Must-try Chitty delicacies include ikan parang masak plndang (fish in spicy soup base), nasilemak (cooked Chitty-style), nasikembull (kembuli rice) and pulut tekan (glutinous rice cake). • Kestoran D' Tandoari House, Jalan Melaka Kaya |
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Melaka Seafood Grilled seafood is a popular offering of restaurants located at Umbai, Serkam, Alai, Pernu and Pengkalan Balak on the southern coast of Melaka. The seafood complex in Umbai Baru is a major attraction. It offers grilled fish wrapped in banana leaf, fish in tamarind sauce, fish head curry, chilli crab, buttered prawns, stuffed squid, cockles and oysters. |
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Nyonya Food Nyonya food incorporates Chinese ingredients like flavoured with Malay spices and herbs. Popular Nyonya favourites are otak-otak (spiced fish meat, wrapped in banana leaves and grilled), itik tim (duck stew with salted vegetables) and perutikan (preserved fish stomach in herbs). |
