Chicken rice ball in claypot salted fish & nyonya cuisine @ Jonker Street, Melaka

Chicken rice ball in claypot salted fish

Chicken rice ball is definitely a must-have if you're in Melaka. Of course, the best places to get this would be at Jonker Street. The usual long line-up would be the famous Hoe Kee chicken rice ball. Since it was just too hot for us to line up, we decided to have ours at our regular shop (turn right at the end of Jonker Street, check out picture at the bottom of this post; can't seem to remember the name of the shop ;p). The shop has probably changed management. We liked the chicken from this shop because they offer roasted chicken rather than just the plain steamed chicken which we aren't really fans of. 

Probably half roasted chicken. Super tasty, tender, and well roasted (RM30).

So, this shop tried to be different by having a 'signature' dish which was their chicken rice ball in claypot salted fish…sounds tempting by name. They also offer nyonya dishes; so we decided to have a bit of everything. Our initial idea was to have chicken rice balls with all these dishes but eventually, we were told that the rice balls are only offered for the claypot salted dish. What a rip off (now, we know why there aren't many customers @__@)! Anyways, we settled for the usual chicken rice.

Cincalok fried egg

We had the nyonya famous cincalok (fermented small shrimp/krill) fried egg and sambal belacan kangkong (stir-fry water spinach with spicy Malaysian shrimp paste). Both dishes were pretty good for nyonya standard. However, the cincalok used were not the fresh ones because we saw them grabbing a bottled cincalok from the shop display to fry the egg (mmm….).

Sambal belachan kangkung (not the best but acceptable)

A meal for 4 people (RM90 inc. drinks)

Honestly, the biggest rip off was the chicken rice balls in claypot salted fish which costed us RM 17; too expensive for a single serving meal for lunch! Although it tasted quite good, we as huge fans of salted fish, hardly saw or tasted any salted fish inside. I was expecting some chunks of salted fish but unfortunately, none of us had even a taste of it. Also, in my opinion, I did not like the idea of the rice balls soaking in the claypot stew which made the rice balls soggy. The chilli paste (the important part of chicken rice), however, received thumbs up from everyone in the family. 

Overall, this place is pretty ok for roasted chicken rice but don't expect to get chicken rice balls here. Their nyonya dishes are quite good as well although price might be a little steep since it's a tourist-y area. Forget the claypot dish which was just a waste of money. Stick to the authentic chicken rice balls!

Unfortunately, I forgot about taking the shop's name but here's more or less the location:

Adapted from Google Maps