Recommended Local BBQ Pork at Chuen How Restaurant - 群壕叉烧饭, Batu Berendam - Malacca (Melaka).

Chuen How Restaurant (N2.23859 E102.25761) is located along Jalan Merak which is nearby the Commercial area of Batu Berendam, it's easy to spot the shop if you drive in from the main road.
The restaurant is famous with their Local BBQ pork which is different from commonly available in our market. After reading the positive reviews online from fellow bloggers, I decided to give a try...

Chuen How Restauant

It was a simple setting just like others Chinese kopitiam (coffee shop).

Simple setting just like others Chinese kopitiam

The owner was friendly and he allowed me to took the photos between stall area...

The owner of Chuen How Restaurant was busy preparing foods for his customers...

 The so called 'Highly Recommended' & popular BBQ Pork （叉烧） from Melaka

We ordered :-
*  The Famous BBQ pork with roasted pork.
*  Assam soup with stingray
*  Vegetables
*  3 white rice.

The Chuen How BBQ Pork (群壕叉烧) and roasted pork (烧肉）

Assam soup with stingray

The BBQ Pork (char siew 叉烧) was well marinated with honey hoisin sauce, with a bit of char, savory and sweet! It was juicy inside with a sticky sweet outside...the char-siew was different from others just because the boss use streaky pork to made it, which is hardly to find within Johor Bahru area...

The roasted porks (烧肉） were equally good but we felt a bit of regret by ordering this, simply because the BBQ pork was too Delicious! We only concentrated on the BBQ pork and end up left some of the roasted pork on the plate...

The stingray cooked in assam soup was fresh and tasty too! Especially the assam soup was flavorful and the lady boss was not stingy with the soup! We allowed to added more soup that day....

The Damage : RM22.00 for 2 adults 1 child included drinks.

It's really difficult for me to describe the Delicious char-siew (叉烧) in words, you have to discover it yourself! I categorized this BBQ Pork as 'Must Eat Food' and so do the Assam soup stingray to all friends who visit Malacca.
I bet you won't regret it! :)

Restoran Chuen How - 群壕茶餐室

Jalan Merak, 

Taman Melaka Baru (Fasa 1)

Batu Berendam, Melaka.

Tel : +6012-6280350

Business hour : 12pm - 7pm (Close on Thursday)

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Location map for Chuen How Restaurant at Batu Berendam, Melaka.

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Night River Cruise at Malacca (Melaka) River (photos sharing)

After our dinner, we continued our next itinerary - Nigh River Cruise on Melaka River. Tickets purchased from the Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel reception and we got RM1 discount on each ticket. The hotel has their own Jetty (N2.19970 E102.24829) just behind the building, it Only accessible for hotel guests. There are 3 times per day that the boat pick up passengers from the hotel's jetty, please check with the hotel staffs for the timing.
Our previous Melaka River Cruise was on year 2008, that was on the day time, so we decided to try it on the night time again...

The first 'colourful' bridge appreared in front of us was the Hang Tuah Bridge...the boat went towards the north direction when it began...

Hang Tuah Bridge at night

The lighting was so colourful during the night...then it passed by the 'Eye of Melaka'...

Eye Of Melaka

Honestly I like the colourful lightings reflection very much from the water during the boat cruise...

Colourful lightings reflection from the water...

When the boat almost reached the end up north, I saw this some kind of LRT station and the track was build along the riverbank, interesting! I will try it soon in the future...

The LRT station at the end of the river cuise...

The boat made a U-Turn once it reached the end point and we were cruise down south again...

The colourful Flat along the river...

The boat passed by a block of flat which lighted up with all the colourful florescent tube! This was the most colourful flat I ever seen in Malaysia!

Follow by few bridges that really look nice during the night...

Nice lightings on the bridges

Back to the Colourful Hang Tuah Bridge again...

Jambatan Pasar - The Market Bridge

After the Market Bridge, there are many murals painted on the colonial buildings...

Beautiful and attractive murals nicely painted on the wall...

The boat cruise through the colonial buildings and it reached the Popular Hard Rock Cafe of Malacca which is just operated few months ago...

Hard Rock Cafe of Malacca

The lighted pathway along the river

This nicely lighted pathway along the riverside and accompany with the Britsh Era colonial buildings...

The boat turn back and cruise towards the hotel's jetty, that end our 45 minutes Night River Cruise on the Malacca River. It was a total different experience when taking the river cruise on day time and night time...I prefer the night cruise because of the colourful lightings...

Have you try it before?

Night River Cruise on Malacca River

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Loaction map of the Jetty of Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel at Malacca

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Walk along the Riverside of Malacca (Melaka) River (photos sharing)

Before dinner, we strolling along the Malacca River just behind the Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel. The starting point was from the Musical Fountain (N2.20013 E102.24806), the musical fountain start to 'Dance' every evening from 8pm - 11pm, if I'm not mistaken...

The riverside of Malacca River

It was a cool evening and really relaxing walking...

The buildings cross the river...

There was a bridge not too far away from us, it's the Jambatan Pasar (Market Bridge). So we decided to cross to the other side of the riverbank...

The boats for Melaka River Cruise just passed by the Jambatan Pasar...

The River Cruise's boat of Malacca river

Jambatan Pasar (Market Bridge)

Once we crossed the bridge, there were many murals painted on the building's wall...yes, many of them...

Murals along the Malacca river

If time allow, I would like to capture all the murals photo in the area...there were really nice and some of them reflected the culture of Malacca (Melaka). By sitting at the riverbank and admiring the murals was one of my enjoyment during the evening...

After the buildings full of the street arts, we came to a row of cafes and pubs, these are the nightlife area of Jalan Kampung Hulu of Melaka town. Well, it's nice to have a cold draught beer while enjoy the cool breeze along the Malacca River...at least for me. :)

Riverbank Music Cafe at Jalan Kampung Hulu (photo taken at the backyard)

The cafe above was Not the only one but with full row of it...until the last shop was a Chinese Seafood Restaurant, the restaurant business was good while we passed by...I guess the seafood here must be delicious! :)

After the seafood restaurant, we reached the Hang Tuah Bridge, we decided to cross it again and back to the hotel because it was about dinner time...

The Hang Tuah Bridge of Malacca (Melaka)

Standing on the bridge and looking around on the both riverbank, hmm...this was the 'River' which started the Malacca (Melaka) Empire during the 1600s...and also the began of the Tanah Melayu which is Malaysia today.

Partly view of the Jalan Munshi Abdullah during the evening...

Once we walk across the bridge, the row of pubs and cafes started to light up. Colourful and Nice!

The row of pubs and cafes along the Jalan Kampung Hulu

We stopped at the place where we started and the whole riverbank walk is around 3.6km (with the proper pathway), which I'm intend to do it in the near future. It was really nice and enjoying walk along the river, where I can slowly view on all the colonial buildings which build on half century ago...

Beside this scenery, it is also a Good place for long exposure photography! Which I'm going to try it on the late evening...

Have you every try it? If no, please try it on your next visit to Malacca, you will like it! :)

Sunset taken on the Market Bridge of Melaka River

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The location map of the start point of our walk along the Malacca River

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