City Famous Seafood — Restaurant in Malacca

Thu 15 Feb 2024 (Lunch)

If you are looking for a cosy and comfortable place to enjoy some delicious home-cooked style seafood in Melaka, you should check out City Famous Seafood Restaurant. This restaurant is strategically located in Taman Melaka Raya, Malacca. It has a cosy and air-conditioned dining area, and ample parking space. The service is friendly and efficient, and the prices are reasonable.

City Famous Seafood Restaurant offers a variety of seafood dishes, cooked with fresh ingredients and authentic flavours. Some of their signature dishes are: Deep fried ikan kurau - a whole fish that is deep fried until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, served with a tangy and spicy sambal belacan sauce. Telur bomb - a unique dish of deep fried whole eggs that are soft and runny in the centre, coated with a savoury and crispy batter. Fried sambal kangkong - a stir-fried water spinach dish with a fragrant and spicy sambal sauce. Braised fried tofu - a dish of fried tofu cubes that are braised in a rich and flavourful gravy, topped with spring onions and fried shallots. Sambal petai with prawns and squid - a dish of petai beans, prawns and squid that are cooked in a spicy and aromatic sambal sauce, with a hint of sweetness from the seafood. Fried French beans - a simple but tasty dish of French beans that are stir-fried with garlic and salt. Peach gum dessert - a refreshing and healthy dessert of peach gum, a natural resin that is rich in collagen and antioxidants, cooked with rock sugar and red dates.

City Famous Seafood Restaurant is a great place to have a family reunion dinner, especially during festive occasions such as Chinese New Year and Hari Raya. My wife and l have been here many times with our relatives, and we always enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. The restaurant also offers take-away service, which is convenient during the movement control order (MCO) period. You can call them at to place your order and collect it at the restaurant.

I highly recommend City Famous Seafood Restaurant to anyone who loves seafood and home-cooked style dishes. It is one of the best seafood restaurants in Melaka, and I will definitely...

Food is tasty but service can be improved. Best assam fish and sambal sotong prawn petai was delicious. The lady boss was not so friendly didn’t say thank you when leaving the restaurant, the daughter in law and daughter also not so friendly grandchildren too overall not good vibes in this restaurant mostly give uncomfortable unwelcoming stare and didn't say thank you come again upon leaving the shop they just let customers leave without saying any thank you it's not good customer service please improve on service in future thank youGood place for family and kids too Note to city famous : your service is very poor need to improve unpleasant experience with the daugther, daughter in law and grandchildren giving uncomfortable rude stare to customer please improve in future thank you wouldn't recommend to come here it's pricey and service is poor too other places have much better service like old town white coffee Latest note to city famous : Called the lady boss few times but didn’t pick up the calls abit rude lady just hang up the phone just wanted to give feedback lady boss not so friendly never say thank you it’s okay maybe she has leg pain that day hope she gets well...

Adam fish 4** - if the fish is fresher and have fish egg would be fabulous.

Fried sotong, prawn and petai 5** - good and tasty sauce that balance out the whole dish with spicy rempah and boost the umami flavour of the seafood and petai.

Otak-otak - fresh made steam otak , milder and softer version of grill otak-otak, easy to eat and flavourful rempah and coconut flavour.

Deep Fried tofu with maktak and high stock thicken sauce with egg white - the egg have eggy taste need to be real careful on this since an egg only cost less than rm1 and you don't want to ruin a dish with that.

Deep fry egg aka Zha Dan - good tasty egg with well control fire to fry the egg white crunchy and and egg yolk runny.

Deep fry fish - good frying that make whole fish crunchy but maybe can use those fish that the bone also could be fry till edible, still need pick out the bone , thus Abit fuzzy to eat, but they sauce and the sambal boost the total flavour, that could wash down with just a bowl of white rice just with...