Amy's Nyonya Heritage Restaurant in Melaka

For out recent trip to Melaka, I made some online searches for a good Nyonya restaurant and quite a few pointed me to this restaurant. So, we had to go and try it out.

The location is rather easy to find as it is facing the main road in Melaka Raya. This place is not too commercialised as many other Nonya restaurants. It is run by Amy Tan who is a cousin of the celebrity Nyonya chef, Florence Tan.

My mom, being a Nyonya is rather fussy with the cooking so this will be a good test. After Amy took the order from us, I had a good feeling as she cooks the dishes herself and you can see her pride when we questioned about the dishes.

With a number of hungry teenagers, we ordered a lot of food and Amy told us it's enough......

The side signboard.

The front signage in yellow.

The soup we ordered was the itik tim (duck with salted vegetable). It was good and I forgot to take the photos until it was almost finished.

The itik tim soup came first.

The pie tie (top hot) is another appertiser. They had actually run out of this but Amy said that more were coming. Although it came later, I am showing the photos first. It was crunchy and fresh.

Yummy, crunchy and fresh.

The cucumber salad is a variation of my mom's (and one of my favorites). The lady fingers are good too for dipping with sauce.

Yummy greens!

We are sticking with the traditional Melaka Nonya dished and another is cincalok omelatte. It not not overpowering with the cincalok.

Simple and good!

One of the most famous dishes, ayam pongteh. Then came also the sambal udang petai, udang masak lemak (with large prawns) and assam fish (jenahak). We also had chap chay (which fired mixed vegetable) and tauhu.

Ayam pongteh

Sambal udang petai.

Udang masak lemak.

Ikan assam pedas (fish gone).

Chap chai.

Tauhu

The rice is served in a traditional bakul. Quite a novelty. Well you can have a much rice as you want. The bad thing of Asian food is you need to have the rice to complement the dishes and you will tend to overeat this way.

Our rice "bakul"

I forgot we also ordered fired chicken....well all the food is good!!!

Yummy, yummy.

You can see that we polished off everything. One thing for certain, Amy and the husband were very happy we appreciated the food and her cooking. Even my parents commented that the food here is good.

Although full, we had to try the cendol as most places now use the canned santan or milk rather than the original way. With the passion for originality, I knew they would do it the right way. I was right! Only thing was if they used shaved ice, it would be even better.

Very nice cendol

Lastly, we asked us to try the tapai and we just ordered one pack. It was also really good.

Now we know where to have good Nonya food whenever we go back to Melaka. The owner told us they have 36 dishes and we have tried about 10 of them. Maybe the next trip, we have to go twice and try all the rest. 

If you wish to eat there, the place is not too large (shophouse) so making a reservation may be a good idea. Their address is 75, Jalan Melaka Raya 24 and telephone 06-2868819. You won't regret it!

Until the next time, cheers.