Hawker Food @ Jonker Street, Malacca

Jonker Street, the most famous street in Melaka is a street that filled with hawker stalls, surrounded with ancient shop lots, offering a bazaar type of shopping. Those stalls sell stuff ranging from food to souvenirs. You name it, they have it here.

Besides those antique layout restaurants, Jonker Street is well known for their hawker food as well. The street is full with a number of hawker stalls selling a wide variety of food and beverages. So many of them, that you could seriously be spoiled for choices!

Jonker Street at Melaka

One which caught my attention is the fruits candy. A few fruits such as grapes and berries are being skewered together before they were dipped into the sugar syrup. I have yet to try though, because certain thing might not taste as good as they looked.

Fruits coated with sugar syrup

As you walk deeper into the Jonker Walk, you will come across a stall which sells Popiah. The stall is currently being run by an uncle and his son.

Popiah stall

Consisted mainly of turnip and a mixture of ingredients such as bean curd, bean sprouts and cabbage, they are rolled over together on a popiah skin to form Popiah. Preparing this dish is not an easy task as it required a lot of efforts and skills.

Popiah at Jonker Street

What make the Jonker Street Popiah famous is the inclusion of pork lard in the ingredients. The pork lards does not only add extra fragrance but it provide some extra chew as well. The Popiah is nicely wrapped and the sogginess level is just nice. Clearly has what it takes to be the famous Popiah of Jonker Street.
Next, we had to slow down our pace walking down the Jonker Street because there were a small crowd gathering by a stall. Being curious, we joined in the crowd and later we found out that there were waiting for their Apom (pan cake) with fillings.

Apom with fillings

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