Eriku’s World

 A view from Portuguese Settlement to the Malacca Straits ! 
   A view from Malacca Straits to Portuguese Settlement ! 
   Restaurants of Portuguese Settlement ! 
  Welcome to Portuguese Settlement in Malacca ! Okey, let's waste no time and proceed to the food ! ^^ 
    
This is " Portuguese Special Butter Garlic Crab " ! 
Uncommon in an Asian recipe, butter used in this dish reflecting the Portuguese influence in Malacca. With the butter, lots of garlic also goes into this dish. The result is a deliciously garlic butter sauce, not unlike Steak Au Poivre. Blue crabs, Mud crabs, Stone or Dungeness crabs are simply scrumptious in this sauce ! 
    This is " Portuguese-style Baked Fish in spice paste and squid fritters" 
    The fish itself not very spicy and the dish included pieces of cucumber , onion and     lady fingers. It's a must try dish in Malacca ! ^^ 
   
  
   This is " Malaysian Chicken Curry " ! 
    It is a typical chicken curry cooked in almost all Malaysian homes. This basic recipe uses a Made in Malaysia Meat Curry Powder. It has just the right blend of spices for an authentic 'Malaysian-tasting' curry! Some ingredients may vary as Eurasian homes might add carrots, more potatoes or a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Still, it was quite spicy for me as i keep on drinking water. 
    

   Opps, sorry for blurr image. >.<  This is " Malacca's Otak-otak ". 
 The otak-otak was pretty good too, although not as good as Muar’s, which is firmer in terms of texture and stronger in taste. If they have baked the otak-otak slightly longer to give it a crispy edge and firmer top layer, it would have been awesome.


This is" Portuguese Sambal Prawns "
A popular and easily available dish made from fresh prawns sambal - a paste made from onions, dried seedless chilies, sugar, lime and candlenuts that are scrumptious served fresh from thekuali (frying pan).


Lastly, this is " Brinjal Baked with Black Pepper " 
Baked brinjal is is nice but the black pepper smell is a little too strong. >.<

I believe most of you who visited Jonker Street before will probably taste Jonker88 cendol and ais kacang. If you didn't , then you have to have a try because it was really delicious !

Customers were queu-ing.
   A shop that famous for their food will be full with customer. So one of the quite troublesome thing in Jonker88 was the shop was so packed with customer and it was self serving service, so you will saw quite some customer holding their cendol or food waiting for a table or a seat to sit.
    At 1st i called the Baba Cendol. The taste was totally different from the other cendol that i tried before, it was sour taste. Besides, there got a lot of variety of cendol and each cendol was poured with different syrup.Honestly, i personally think that their cendol's taste was quite weird as i never taste any sour cendol before but the taste actually not bad.

  I'm curious with other cendol taste as well, so i order a Durian Cendol. The taste more or less quite same and the main taste was the durian syrup still the taste was sour. Very nice but still weird haha.

   Before i leave the shop, i noticed there's still a cendol with an awesome name that i didn't taste yet ! The name of the cendol was " Eight Precious Cendol"  , they also have the " Durian Eight Precious Cendol " so i order 1. The taste was same with the Durain Cendol , and i personally think the different was it have 8 different ingredient in it. However, Gula Melaka aka Malacca Sugar(Palm Sugar) and Santan were heavily drizzled on all the cendols  , still the amount of Palm Sugar and Santan they drizzled was just appropriate, not too sweet. Every cendols sell in Jonker88 cost Rm 3 which was quite pricey compare to other part but i think is worth to have a try.