Mei Sin Cafe 新美星茶餐室 — Restaurant in Malacca

Housing numerous stalls each offering staple Malaysian Chinese dishes from the likes of porridge and rojak to chicken rice balls, diners are certainly spoilt for choice at this coffee shop.

The 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝘆𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗮 boasts a broth rich with coconut milk and garnished with cucumber strips, tofu puffs, egg, cockles. What was missing for that complete experience was the prawns, but the drinkable yet ‘lemak’ broth makes up for it. Would recommend getting a mix of thin rice noodles and yellow noodles as the base.

Another tasteful dish is the 排骨面 (𝗣𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗥𝗶𝗯 𝗡𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀), which features deboned and sliced pork meat atop egg noodles. Imagine a bowl of wanton mee, with the exact same seasoning and dryness, but instead of thin char siew there’s a more fleshy and fatty portion of meat. Perhaps this meat portion is more true to the price, but would like to see a higher priced version that has bigger meat chunks true to the notion of pork ribs. Nonetheless the noodles are springy and the sauce made just salty enough.

The 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗞𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗼𝘄 lives up right to it’s name; the ‘wok-hey’ cooked right into each strand of noodle and bit of egg. Complete with cockles and beansprouts, it is a standard run-of-the-mill version of the country’s staple and wouldn’t disappoint. Perhaps adding some greens would make this dish more unique and...

The ngoh hiang or wu xiang is pretty decent. The boiled wanton nice. A combo mixed of 5 items cost RM7. A 8/10.

The bitter gourd soup with pork parts including pigs’ intestines cost RM9. Served in a stainless bowl 👍🏼 A 9/10.

The coffee & iced coffee was really good. A solid 10/10 will have it again.

Will return to try other food stalls.

Revised from 4-stars to 5-stars because of Ngoh Hiang, Bitter Gourd Soup & hot & iced coffee 💯👍🏼😀 RM5.60 for both.

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There is a push cart hawker from the old colonial days style that sells 4 variety of fried dough fritters called locally by the Chinese in Malaysia & Singapore as yu tiao, tau sar han chin pang, sesame seed (sweeten) yu tiao & glutinous rice han chin pang. All good at MYR$1.30 per piece.

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This is a coffee shop situated in the heart of City of Melaka.

The coffee shop has resumed full operation. Strict SOPs are observed. Capacity is reduced.

It has numerous stalls serving various types of Chinese food. The chicken rice and the siew mai are popular.

They serve the usual coffee shop drinks too.

Prices are fair. Cash and e-wallet payments are accepted here.

Cleanliness is acceptable.

Service is fast most of the times. During lunch hours, there are usually a large crowd.

Parkings are mainly roadside parkings. Reasonably easy to get a parking lot.

Patrons on wheelchairs can patronize this shop even though no special facilities are available.

26-11-2024 ; Still a good breakfast place. Enjoyed their Nyonya Laksa and Dry...