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Most of the tourist to Melaka would surely go to Jonker Street to experience to the old Melaka, its’ invaluable heritage, history and also local goods and food. But located just right next to Jonker Street is Medan Selera Tengkera which mostly only serve the locals.

Located at Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock opposite the Pay Fong Chinese school, this place used to be stalls under a big tree and even know the tree is still maintained but the food court is now much clean and tidy with roof over it’s top.

The food here are mainly local and simple stuff. The hot drinks here goes from RM1.10 up and they are pretty decent.

Tau Kua is sort of a local thing, I had never had this in KL before. Its tofu, fried one all cut up and serve with pineapples and cucumber at the bottom and chili paste on top. The smallest is RM2.00 onwards. The tofu is soft and kind of nice with the chili paste, yummy.

I was walking around the food court trying to decide what to eat… then I saw the roast meat stalls looks good, so I order the char siew and siew yok rice. As the local styles goes, there’s varieties on topping to choose from too! Its like having chap fan but the based are roast meats and you have sauce like sweet or curry to go with it. So the standard one I ordered comes with some fried eggs and the sides I chose some kangkung vege plus tau kua (braised tofu). All these cost only RM4.50, that’s value for money. However there’s only 2 char siew rice that I missed so far in Melaka is one at Bunga Raya and the other at Melaka Baru .

Not being greedy like me, Miharu opted for some simple economical fried meehoon and mee which the local style is to cover with chili paste plus dark sweet sauce. Something we don’t do in KL for sure… hehe…

I was told by Miharu the good thing is actually their Curry Rice stall but my upset stomach this morning doesn’t permits me to be too adventurous with curry, maybe the next time .

There are many other stalls here, stuff like fried lobak, roti canai, various noodles and others too.

Medan Selera Tengkera (next to Shell)
Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Melaka Tengah, Melaka.
GPS: N2 11.872 E102 14.585

This place is really busy, the 2 rows of shops around here have like 8 coffeeshops and Genting Cafe is one of them. It can get pretty hot inside the shop and its really packed most of the time. However, there are various types of hawkers food here to choose from.

From assam laksa, lobak, sar hor fun to Chinese pasembur is available here and there’s plenty of stores outside selling buns, kueh and take aways too.

The one thing new to me here is the Chinese pasembur which is like Indian style rojak but made by Chinese. The sauce is not too thick, the filling is almost like Indian’s style except no fried stuff. Quite nice, like a light salad .

Overall the various food quality here is good but I find price is on the high side.

Genting Cafe @ Jelutong, Penang
GPS: N5 22.972 E100 18.243

I remembered my ex-colleague Albert took me to one of this place in Penang long ago for duck thigh mee suah and next to it there’s a stall selling toasted bread. Here at Sri Nibong Cafe, there’s a famous one known as Sungai Nibong Toasted Bread that’s even featured by Ho-Chiak TV show.

So we head there in the morning for breakfast to give it a try, there’s like a whole lot of choices you can choose for your toasted bread. Its basically bun that they toast on a grill, you can have jams, meats, eggs, cheese and all sort to go with it depending on what you fancy. I left the ordering to Sky and we got a whole bunch of toasted bread with things like luncheon meat plus cheese and its really nice but a bit pricey because of cheese.

The other food stuff at this coffeeshop are very much local and not tourist rate. Our hokkien mee cost RM2.70 instead of the RM4.00 you will get eating in town.

One of the other specialty here which is also famous, its their Koay Teow Th’ng. Now for KL folks, nope this is not your usual koay teow soup you have in KL but its koay teow soup with pork, fish cake in them and you have the option to add egg. Its pretty good and doesn’t cost too much as well, if I remembered correctly RM2.80 and 50 cents more if you add an egg.

Overall, I find this a very good and affordable non-tourist price place for breakfast and lunch at this part of Penang

Sri Nibong Cafe @ Sungai Nibong, Penang
GPS: N5 20.217 E100 17.911