We visited Melaka over the long break, turned out that the entire world had the same idea.
Or at least it felt like the entire world.
The entire town was jammed to the max.
There were more people all over Jonker Street than a weekend crowd at 1U.
The waiting lines to eat at the usual well-known places were RIDICULOUS.
Screw it, there’s no way we were gonna line up like that.
Under the merciless scorching sun, no less.
Plus I was sick, so my face must have been blacker than soot.
Justice Bao had nothing on me.
That’s by the way. The next morning we were going for breakfast.
And saw this little line forming at the most well-known restaurant for chicken rice balls.
At 8.27am. When the shop wasn’t open for business yet.
Are you freaking kidding me?
What’s wrong with these people?
Isn’t there anything else in Melaka to eat?
Don’t they need to wake up the shop owner???
Oh turns out that they would be open for business in 15 mins time.
Hmmm …
This might be our only chance of having any chicken rice balls.
So….
😀
The shop only had a few tables so they were quickly filled up.
An older guy seemed to be the only one taking orders.
By taking orders, I meant that he approaches your table…
asks how many would be eating…
and 5 minutes later your food would have arrived.
So efficient.
The balls were awesome. So was the chilli, omg so pedas so good!
The chicken… yes it was nice.
But I prefer my chicken to be nicely cut.
This one, they just like simply chop chop it up only.
But apparently Malaccans prefer it this way wor.
Say it’s nicer and juicier.
So what do we know… 🙂
the chicken here is cut like how i imagined my 7 yr old niece would approach it
@KY i noted that as well but i was told by a malaccan that they really like it this way…
They’re from the old school, simply hentam school of chicken chopping.
The chicken rice chili was great though. That’s one of my major judging criteria for any chicken rice.
@K yeap I think Daniel mentioned it’s a mix of chilli + ginger + lime + something + something.. ?
Nice trick with the camera, grrr… shrinking my head n giving me canoe feet. Not sure why I am smiling at this unearthly hour.
Hoe Kee is my favourite tbh.
Used to patronized this shop in the eighties and till early 2000.. Still remember the boss and the staffs sometimes sitting feeling sleepy.. Thanks to food blogger now famous than Jacky Chan…
one day we finally tasted here. it was a long queue under the sun
A loooonnngggg time ago.. this shop was not that famous till food bloggers hit the web. Haha. I always make it a point not to travel anywhere during long weekends.. even I balik kampong to Taiping also, it was daunting to get a plate of char kueh teow. All sold out!
And the man who chopped the chicken at this shop, looks uncannily like my physics teacher.
They are just famous, until now i don’t know why~~