Friday, December 28th, 2007
After my previous visit to the shop next to it, I feel compelled to blog about Ban Lee Siang. Afterall, this is always the first choice for me when I opt for satay celup. I am sure most of the locals know, but in case you are looking for it, Ban Lee Siang is situated along Jalan Ong Kim Wee. Be prepared to wait on weekends and public holidays, because business is really that good.
The one thing I like about this place is that the gurgling pot of satay gravy used for cooking the food on the stick is consistently good. Tasty, with the right amount of spiciness and a good balance of peanutty flavour.
While different shops serves different types of food on sticks ranging from raw pork and poultry to expensive seafood, they almost always serve the same meat balls, fish cakes, meatballs and sausages, as well as my favourite Taiwan sausages.
And not to mention the fried wontons, fried beancurd skins sandwiched with fish paste, water convulvus (kangkung) formed into balls, and fishballs.
Same as the above la.
Quail eggs, fishballs and crabsticks!
*Dip, dip, dip*
You can also choose to order the bread and cucumber to dip into the bubbly gravy, or they will give you cucumber slices. whatever your preferences are, just dig in! Yummy!
Popularity: 46% [?]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
A visit to Malacca is incomplete without chicken rice balls, cendol gula Melaka and satay celup, right?
A boiling pot of satay gravy for you to dip and cook food on sticks is such a novelty that famous satay celup ( or is it spelled sate celup?) restaurants such as Ban Lee Siang at Ong Kim Wee, McQuek, and Capitol Satay Celup are always packed with eager stay celuppers. Some even queue at the sidewalk just to wait for a place!
This was the shop next to Ban Lee Siang along Jalan Ong Kim Wee, by the name Restoran Zhau Jiu or something. Can’t quite remember. This is my first time eating at this shop. They have a wider selection of vegetables compared to others. The sauce is not bad as well.
The amount of sticks we took paled in comparison to those sitting at tables next to us. They could simply eat hundreds of sticks!
Louiss and YC were visiting Malacca, so I must introduce satay celup to the satay celup virgins!
Popularity: 28% [?]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Another fifteen or so days to Christmas. Have you planned your Christmas celebration? I wish I could. Christmas falls on study week this year round, so I must keep myself busy to get good grades, and in the meantime reminisce about my last Christmas.
Christmas is a holiday where we get to sit together and have a nice meal. Last Christmas my family came down to Malacca to enjoy the sight of lights in Portuguese settlement a fishing settlement of the Portuguese, and to have a seafood dinner there.
If you have been to the place you would know that you can opt to sit by the sea to enjoy the sea breeze, and there is a stall selling freshly barbecued seafood. They have scallops, oysters, and some shellfish whose name I do not know. 
You can even see the horseshoe crabs dancing on the the booth table.
Good food, relaxing atmosphere, and family members.
We had garlic butter scallops.
Squid fritters.
Mussels, Portuguese style.
Very lean bamboo clams.
the Marmite crabs.
and another crab, which I think is salt baked crab.
Some vegetables.
Sometimes, it isn’t just the food, but the great company to dine with, don’t you agree? Nothing beats having a hearty meal with your nearest family members. Ahh, I wonder how will it be, this Christmas.
Popularity: 16% [?]
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
One of the luxuries of waking up in the morning and not having to rush to work or school is the time to spend sipping tea after a hearty meal of dim sum breakfast. Dainty dim sums served in small platters makes breakfast a more enjoyable affair full of choices, don’t you think so?
There are only two dim sum shops in Bukit Beruang which both taste fairly alright. Go in the morning and the feeling is great!
Stuffed red chillies. I absolutely dig stuffed brinjals better, but I can’t get them today.
Fruit tartlets are unconventional in a Chinese dim sum shop, but they make very good desserts.
Morning sky is the loveliest! Yay!
Popularity: 20% [?]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
It was a hot late afternoon in Jonker Walk, so out of desperation I stumbled into Tart and Tart Bakery Shop to get the most chilling dessert - peppermint cheese tart and ice blended strawberries! Pray tell, what can be cooler than peppermint? *wink*
I have to say that the delectable selection of cream cheese tarts comes in every flavours you could think of. Care for a mango cheese tart or yam cheese tart with your cuppa afternoon tea? They serve pies too.
Equally impressive are their wide ranges of freshly baked egg tarts - Portuguese, Hawaiian, curry chicken, tuna and banana egg tarts, just to name a few.
The shop ain’t big, just a row of tables with a narrow aisle, but they serve great afternoon snack and tasty Gula Melaka cendol as well.
How can I leave without sampling the mouth watering hot egg tarts?
Yummilicious!
There you go! Just right next to Admiral Cheng Ho’s museum, facing the river. Oh yeah, in Malacca.
Popularity: 21% [?]
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