Hainan Chicken Rice Ball at Chop Chung Wah

 

 

Melaka is a well known historic city in Malaysia which was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage City on 7 July 2008. Melaka is well-known for its Nyonya cuisine and chicken rice-ball. So if you do visit to Melaka, you can’t miss the Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls at Chung Wah Coffee Shop. The core business of this open air coffee shop is chicken rice and the customers were coming non-stop. 

 

 

Chop Chung Wah owns a simple and clean facade with only one entrance into the coffee shop. The signboard is placed high that you may not notice when you are too near. If you are walking from Dutch Square where the red buildings like Christ Church or Stadthuys are situated, keep look up on the right hand side of a white color building. Chung Wah is exactly on the right corner after crossing over Melaka River by Tan Kim Seng Bridge. 

 

The rice-balls which about the size of golf balls are taken with boiled chicken flavoured with sauce and sesame oil. The rice itself is best taken with pounded chilli-sauce. Using traditional Hainanese chicken rice recipe, these delicious rich-balls are served with the tender and juicy chicken meat from Bukit Mertajam, which is well-known for its free-range chicken. The chicken meat is as tender as the "kampung chicken" normally found free-roaming in villages.

Here is the location of the shop :

Address:
Chop Chung Wah Coffee Shop
Right corner after crossing Tan Kim Seng Bridge from Dutch Square
Lorong Hang Jebat, Melaka, Malaysia

Tips: Go as early as 11 am on weekend to avoid long queues.

 

Hainanese Chicken Rice Balls