Jonker Street which is also known as Jalan Hang Jebat is a popular Melaka’s tourist area for its food, historical buildings, heritage houses and Baba & Nyonya’s cultures. This post is about our little adventure in exploring the Jonker Street and the areas around it.
Jonker Street, I’m here for the food and photography
After we parked our cars at Hotel Puri‘s car park, I noticed this colorful wall with the tiny plant growing out from it.
To explore Jonker Street, laupoh suggested to rent bicycles. We rent ours from JT MiniMart. You can check the latest price from their website. Also checkout their Facebook for more photos.
JT MiniMart
Address:
40 Jalan Tukang Besi 75200 Melaka
75200 Melaka
Phone Number: 016-717 6663
My ride for the Jonker Street adventure. Bicycles from JT Minimart are very new and well-maintained.
Some of the roads are narrow and full of cars, so we cycle in front of the shops.
Spotted those packs of blood at Love Guest House.
Love Guest House. Maybe one day we will try this guest house. From their Facebook the rooms look nice.
So we bought one blood pack each in case we lost some blood during our exploration. It is actually Ribena by the way.
If you are lazy to cycle, you can get a trishaw (beca) driver to bring you around Jonker Street. There are many nicely decorated trishaws in Jonker Street such as this Hello Kitty one. Some are equipped with loud speakers.
Cycle cycle and we passed by this Chinese temple. There are some old temples around here for you to pray or take photo if you like to take photos of historical buildings.
One of the lion statue at a temple.
After cycling around for 10 minutes, we reached the Melaka River.
There is this nice 5-stars boutique hotel here facing the Melaka River, the Casa de Rio
A panorama view of Melaka River and the Casa de Rio
If you like, you can also go for a river cruise on the Melaka River for sightseeing the Melaka city.
Laupoh and me posing with our bicycles at the Melaka River.
After playing around the Melaka River, we cycled to this backstreet of Melaka.
We spotted this beautiful and colorful garden behind one of the house.
Laupoh and me posing here at the backstreet garden.
So beautiful that we shoot a few more poses.
Another beautiful backyard with flowers and plants.
THE ORANGUTAN HOUSE. THE ORANGUTAN HOUSE was established in 1992 as the studio-gallery of Charles CHAM in Melaka. You can get T-shirt, paintings and wearable arts here as souvenirs.
A classic entrance to the Eng Choon Association.
The stage at Jonker Street for performance.
Jonker Street Melaka main purpose: Food.
Next, we start to eat and eat. The first thing we ate is this famous durian puff (Taste Better) at Jonker Street.
Taste Better
Address: 96, Jalan Hang Jebat, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 12-862 6575
Their motto is one bite puff, which means we can put the whole puff inside our mouth in one shot.
Many shop selling sweet pomelo as it is still Chinese New Year week.
Spotted this Aiskrim Goyang Buah-buahan (translated as Shaked Fruit Ice-cream?)
Watermelon juice served in a watermelon, one of the popular juice in Jonker Street.
Preparing the watermelon juice in watermelon. Basically the seller drills a hole in the watermelon and continue to drill around until all the watermelon flesh became juice.
All kinds of grilled squids.
Stinky tofu, laupoh’s favourite. This Melaka’s version is not as stinky as KL’s version.
Grilled squids, scallop and other seafood.
Chicken satay, my favourite Malaysian’s food.
Many shops here selling local Nyonya delicacies such as this Christina Ee Jonker Nyonya Enterprise.
Grilled squids using charcoal.
Overview of our lunch at Kedai Kopi Chung Wah, Jonker Street.
Taugeh, normally eat chicken rice will order this.
We also ordered this sour spicy vegetables to complement our meal at Kedai Kopi Chung Wah
One of the specialty at chicken rice shop around Jonker Street is this chicken rice ball.
Delicious and juicy smooth steamed chicken at Kedai Kopi Chung Wah.
A girl preparing cendol. Yes, you can order cendol at Kedai Kopi Chung Wah.
Kedai Kopi Chung Wah
Business Hours: Everyday from 07:30 am – 3:00 pm
Address: 18, Jalan Hang Jebat, Malacca
Telephone Number: +606 286 0121
Another attraction at the Jonker Street is the MAMEE Jonker House. Here, you can buy MAMEE stuffs and also learn about the history and operation of MAMEE.
MAMEE Monster preparing MAMEE.
Posing with MAMEE Monster in fron of the MAMEE Jonker house.
One of the many heritage shop houses in the Jonker Street.
Another well maintained traditional shop house.
And finally, please don’t mess with Melaka.
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Other sites on Jonker Street:
Malacca
Cavin Teo
Mia’s Travelogue