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I love to have breakfast at Jalan Tun Sri Lanang by the open air car park with their very good chicken rice ball and also hee kiaw mee. At night, this same place is converted to serve 2 other stalls, one is also a hee kiaw mee and the other is a char koay teow stall.

Tonight after dropping Miharu off for wedding dinner, I head there for a good bowl of hee kiaw mee. I got a little greedy (as always ) and added additional 6 pieces of pork and fish balls on top of my hee kiaw mee which is already filled with good stuff.

I asked for the soup noodles… so in my hee kiaw mee there are obviously hee kiaw (fish paste), almost 8 slices of them, a few slices of bbq pork (char siew), half a fried wanton and 3 fishball… the topping almost covered my meehoon! With an additional 6 pieces in another bowl, you can imagine how full I am now.

The soup is great, with a generous amount of Chinese parsley added really brings out the aroma and most important of all the clear soup is tasty and no thirst after drinking. The hee kiaw and fish balls are very good as well with good texture and taste.

The pricing is also good, with a drink and all the above for RM6.90. The base hee kiaw noodles itself is RM3.50. Good place for a quick and good dinner .

Hee Kiaw at Jalan Tun Sri Lanang
GPS: N2 12.387 E102 15.178

I had always like popiah melaka style where they would have the popiah with the common sweet and chili paste topped with a piece of green vege, minced fried eggs, minced tofu, slices of cucumbers, cooked yambean (sar kok in cantonese) wrapped together with the popiah skin. The secret that makes melaka popiah nicer is a little pork lard oil being added just before wrapping.

I spotted this mobile popiah stall on its way to business at about 2 plus in the afternoon at Bukit Beruang. It stopped just next to where I was buying some noodles and I decided to try it. The popiah goes for RM2 per piece and the lady have her son helping her out.

The popiah is good but not as sinfully good as they just use the pork lard oil and not the pork lard itself. I asked Wee Meng about the stall later he told me that they are always at the junction where I bought them but as I was waiting for my order, the owner got a call for 10 pieces and soon after she had done my order, she started to push her stall on wheels again, wonder if she is delivering or just moving to a better spot .

Anyhow, not a bad choice for some tea time snacks without having to jam into Melaka town on a weekend .

Popiah @ Bukit Beruang
GPS: N2 14.706 E102 16.248

I had been noticing this place everytime I use the Bukit Baru way to town in Melaka, finally last weekend I had a chance to check it out. I got there at 7.45pm and it was so crowded I had to wait about 10-15 mins to get a place to seat. They offered bak kut teh here in 2 choices, one is pork and the other is beef.

I ordered the beef and waited for about 25-30 mins as they shop is quite laid back… well it fact its not a shop but a house on the main road which had converted it’s porch into a makan place. I also noticed there’s 1 table that’s having a steamboat with peppery bak kut teh soup with beef, etc.

I ordered a can of beer for my wait at RM7.50 and the family that’s running the place was kind enough to offered me the day’s papers for the wait.

Finally my beef bak kut teh came, its a well portioned claypot of beef, beef internals, beef balls with foo chuk and cabbage served with a bowl of rice. The rice is a sticky, but the beef bak kut teh was good! Its not the usual bak kut teh soup as I expected. Its actually this thick and peppery soup with all the ingredents inside.

The soup is peppery hot but very very good and as I was eating, I was sweating hot and nose was running. The beef bak kut teh costed me RM10.50 and the final verdict is good, especially on a rainy day! Definately something unique to try, but try to avoid peak hours!

Loi’s Bak Kut Teh and Beef Stall
GPS: N2 13.742 E102 16.624