My Food Press

This is the outdated post actually. Been there about one or two weeks ago.

“Yong Mao coffee shop”. My favourite place for dim sum in Melaka. Located near Kuan Yin Temple (Sorry, i really do not pay attention at the road name).

Chinese tea, good to have it with dim sum.

Hubby’s favourite porridge. He said this is the most original way of having porridge with few “yu char kuey” on top.

Glutinous rice wrapped with “he ye”, or we called “he ye fan” in mandarin. I will surely order this everytime i come here. Actually the taste a bit like “ba zhang”, but this one is more fragrant, the “he ye” fragrant.

Few plates of dim sum. A must have are the steam pork ribs. Very good!! Also, some says the “bau” here is good. But this time we didn’t order because the porridge, “he ye fan” and few plates of dim sum is enough for both of us.

One more thing is good to reach here early morning around 7.45am to 8.30am because not so much people yet and quite easily to secure a table. If not, you have to wait.

Me, May Lian and Nee had a wonderful and happy shopping day on May 31, 2008. Maybe i got my new lovely Myvi dy, so i keep wanting to drive around go somewhere. So i suggested to go shopping in KL once we get our pay. I just went to Pyramid with hubby two weeks ago, and me and May Lian not feeling to go Mid Valley either. So i suggested to go One Utama. Yooohooo…..so happy~~~~

These were what we ordered….

Prawn siew mai. Sick of having pork siew mai. This is the substitute. hehehe… My favourite steamed pork spareribs. But the steamed pork spareribs here not nice, although it is quite big portion.
I do not know what this dim sum called. Being deep fried and wrapped with seaweed, topped with sesame with prawn filling.

Xiao long bao, direct translation called small little dragon. hahaha… Still cannot beat Dragon-i one. Two little cha siu bao for May Lian and Nee.
Fried carrot cake. I quite like it because it serves with lots of beansprouts, which May Lian thought it was a bit excessive.
Seriously, i also do not know what this called. And i did not take this. (._.”’)They told me this is called “jien dui”. “tou sa” fillings, which i don’t like. Noticed that i don’t take fried dim sum. hehe…
The bill. Hard printed order slip. Which the waiter/waitress will tick the dim sum’s price you take everytime he/she serves you. Our breakfast costs us RM27.

What were you doing in last raya? Ching and Angel came to Melaka and i was their tour guide, brought them hunting Melaka good food. Both of them reached Melaka around 5.30pm (131007) and i brought them to Jonker Walk first to avoid jam and crowd later. We had our baba cendol at 88 Jonker to quench our thirst.After that, we continue to walk walk around Jonker Walk. Weather was quite good at first until it started to rain a bit a bit. Then i decided to find a place to have our dinner, preferably with shade and nearby as all of us did not have umbrella. Then,i thought of a Teochew style restaurant,Teo Soon Loong Chan . This restaurant also been blogged by ,Precious Pea and KL People KL Food .

I really amused with the collection of wide range of liquor inside the wall cabinet. Mind you, the liquor is for sell too!! If i’m not wrong, the chef sell liquor in the early years before he became a chef.
Variety of seafood for you to choose, clams, oyster, soft shell crabs, crabs, prawns, sea cucumbers, froggys, bamboo clams, you name it, they have it all!!!
Oyster noodle, come with dark and thick gravy sauce. It tastier with the black vinegar. The oyster was so fresh. Thumbs up!!! We noticed every table ordered this dish, so we did!!
Soft shell crabs, it looks so normal, but it was very crunchy and tasty at its own. At first, i did not order this, i called PL to ask what are their specialty. So i added this dish to our order.
Sweet sour chicken chop. Recommended by Mr. Tan (the owner). It looks so normal until i doubt is it really nice. Surprisingly, the taste was not bad. The chicken chop was still crispy even though it was placed with the sweet sour sauce.
Lastly, we ordered kangkung sambal. Again, it looks normal, just like other restaurants’ kangkung sambal dish too. But the taste was quite appetizing and nice. I always love vege, remember? (^.^)
The famous yam dessert, their specialty, served with gingko and smashed pumpkin. At first, i quite reluctant to try because i do not really like yam and gingko. But as said, this is their signature dessert, no matter how i got to give it a try.

This is how the yam dessert looks like after the yam, pumpkin and gingko mixed togather. To my surprised, it was not too sweet at all. The yam taste was not too strong (as i do not like strong taste of yam), mixed with the pumpkin and gingko, it really taste good!

The bill came out to total of RM77. Still acceptable with the quality of food. After the satisfying meal, we continue to walk around in Jonker Walk. But we were really had a hard time to really visit stall by stall because it was too packed!!! After awhile, we looked for a place to have drinks and chit chat. We noticed this, Cheng Ho Tea House, newly built, just located beside the Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Ball Restaurant.

I was totally amazed with the entrance to the tea house. A very long small lane, decorated nicely between the lane, so mysterious. This was my first time came here and i totally have no idea what was inside. I thought it is a western type cafe, like many cafes do. But it was not. It is a chinese tea house, which serves variety type of chinese tea. The environment is quite comfy and peace, just too many mosquitoes (maybe due to raining). I would definitely visit again next round!

We chit chat until the tea house closed at 10.30pm. PL suggested back to my house to continue chit chatting, but i refused because my house is too hot. Then we went to Asia Havana Cafe to have second round drink. We stayed there until around 12.30am before go back.