Restaurant Lee Swee Meng — Restaurant in Malacca

I would say this Chinese restaurant is a hidden gem in Malacca! I was introduced to try this restaurant by my Malacca friend, and I thought this is one of the best I have tried! The foods are cooked in hokkien styled, and all serve in claypot! So it will be served piping hot! Do come here early to avoid disappointment having to wait for long. When we came, it was 6.40pm, and we were given number 3, and waited for about 15mins to be seated as it was full house! We were surprise the business is so good and furthermore it was on a Monday evening. There are both outdoor and indoor seatings. While waiting to be seated, the waiter took our order. I saw there was a long queue after us, and some decided to leave. So do come early at 5pm when the shop just opened. They also opened during lunch time from 11am to 2pm. Their signature dishes are lala soup and pork leg vinegar. The lala was sold out, so would certainly come back to try next time! The pork leg vinegar was so delicious! The servings were generous and prices are reasonable too! This restaurant is at Melaka Raya. You turn in to the direction of Pulau Melaka , then keep right and turn right at the second junction. You will see lots of shop lots. After that turn left at second turning and go all the way to the end. The restaurant is on your right! Taste : 5 stars Service : 4 stars Price : 4 stars Ambience : 4...

This is one of the must eat places where we are in Melaka. My wife and I are there twice in two days 🤣. First day for lunch, there were three of us and we ordered four dishes. I insisted on the curry fish fillet...it's my favourite but be prepared to eat a lot of rice. Vegetable was sweet potato leaves and it was well cooked, but the vegetable was a bit stringy. The pic stomach soup was excellent though my two companions only had the soup and I had most of the offal. Last dish was black vinegar pig trotter. That was excellent too and the girls polished that off. I stick to the curry. As usual, there is a bowl of fresh garlic and another of chili padi, to go with soya sauce. Perfect together. We had fresh made barley water kosong (no sugar) as our drink.

Following day, we were running late and couldn't get a Grab. So called the restaurant and they were very obliging to wait for us. I think we turned up 10mins before lunchtime closing. Only two of us this time and the dishes. We had ginger spring onion fish fillet which is one of their specialties. Excellent especially (for me) with the fresh garlic. 2nd dish is another of their specialties, the salted fish pork belly. Excellent with rice! Last dish was just garlic fried HK chye sim. We pretty much finished all three dishes 😊.

See the pictures. This place has amazing food. We'll be back the next time...

A popular chinese cuisine restaurant. Ordered Yam chicken, fish maw soup, claypot potato leaves, ginger fillet and taiwan style pork with garlic.

Yam chicken is flavoured with the taste of yam. Something different from the usual chinese cooking style.

Sweet potato leaves is alright, nothing too special and no surprises.

Ginger fillet is very fresh, this is good if you like ginger, the fillet are literally swimming in the ginger paste / gravy. Very strong ginger smell and taste. Those not a fan of ginger may find it too pungent. The gravy goes well with rice.

Taiwan style pork is another something different. It has a sour sweet taste which is appetising. For those who are particular, there is no porky smell or taste.

Located in a secluded commercial shop house area just near the bridge linking to Pulau Melaka. It may be some what secluded but locals and Singaporeans knows abouth this place and by 7 to 8pm, the place is full house.

Come early if you want to get seats especially for large group.

Parking wise, plenty. You can park slightly further away as the whole shop house area are quite empty so wont be blocking any business or anyone, just dont double park...