Today in Malacca I had their famous chicken rice balls. These are balls of rice full of chicken flavor (must be cooked in chicken stock). Served with cut up juicy chicken, you've got yourself a yummy meal for 2 bucks!
Other delicacies here include the Nyonya food (Nyonya is like the Singaporean Peranakan: people of mixed parentage: "foreigners"- usually Chinese or Indian men marrying Malay women several generations ago ((see Singapore People)) ). Spicy Otak-otak fish mush (yummy), chicken soup with a dark tangy sweet broth, nyonya laksa (curry like noodles), and I don't know what else! More things definitely but hard to describe.
Malaysia is full of street food and Malacca has its own. But most places seem to close early. We walked by a riverside cafe that seemed like the perfect place to sit and have a drink and watch the sky turn colors. But they were closing up at 6 pm! Maybe of was because it was Tuesday- the day many places close shop due to tourists going home on Mondays.
Malacca was declared a UNESCO heritage site last year and evhdently the tourists descend on the weekends. We did see a Chinese tour group all taking pictures with a group of Muslim girls in their veils.
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