Best Char Kuey Teow in Melaka

Saturday Ice Cafe is tucked at the corner of a junction, by the roadside. If you’re looking for a fair range of local hawker food, Saturday Ice Cafe could be the one best place for you to get a satisfying meal. There are various individual hawker stalls here. This is where you can get a delicious plateful of char kuey teow too, with an option to douse it with sweet sauce to make it even a more flavourful one.

Hang Tuah Cafe probably got its name from its current location, Hang Tuah Walk. Apparently, this street is a hotspot for “shisha” lovers in town, in addition to savouring a highly acclaimed Penang Famous Char Koay Teow, the Malay style. True enough, you will be presented with a full-bodied char kuey teow drenched with heaps of gravy and an almost cooked to perfection sunny-side up egg with prawns!

Botak Char Kuey Teow, prolly naming its stall as a significant remark of the cook itself. This is another pleasing food exploration that you can get from a touristy place such as Jonker Walk. The Cockles Fried Kuey Teow is its specialty here. Served piping hot from the wok, this is one of the most tastiest fried flat noodles with fresh meaty cockles, crunchy bean sprouts and not forgetting pork lard, which gives this dish a robust flavour.

Mei Sin Cafe, a Chinese coffee shop during the day, and a landmark given by the locals to address a famous and anonymous char kuey teow hawker stall only when the night falls. Pick from flat noodles and yellow alkaline-tasting noodles, or get the combination of both in a single serving. If you’re a fan of pork lard and plump cockles, you will certainly crave for more of this good stuff and what’s more if it is a good deal too! 

Jiki Food Court is a multiracial local food court. This is a place where Malay and Chinese cooks sling their best at its own respective stalls, while the Indians are in charge of beverages. And what more if, there’s char kuey teow too? This fried flat noodles is simply delectable on its own and with fresh peeled full-sized prawns. You may too request for the sweet sauce to enhance the flavour of it.

In a small city such as Melaka, the number of Thai restaurants are literally countable. Kuay Tiaw Zabb, a recent addition in town and a connoisseur of Thai gourmets is one of those. When it comes to “Pad Thai”, there’s so much more than just generic ones such as the “Pad Thai Chao Wang” here. Bearing a Thai version of “char kuey teow”, this rice noodle dish is laden with full-sized prawns, egg, bean sprouts, tofu and ground peanuts. It is very authentic and stands out with a pronounced sweet tamarind flavour, while the noodles were perfectly cooked yet elastic!

K5, The Street Bistro is a casual hangout place with loads of Asian and Western food, and traditional local refreshing desserts. An all time classic favourite here is the Char Kway Teow. Serving portion is quite generous, with seafood ingredients such as prawns and squid. There’s no sweet sauce for this fried flat noodles, but you will be given sliced red chilli in soy sauce instead.