#海南 #鸡饭 Hainanese Uncle Pang's Chicken RiceBalls
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| Uncle Pang's RiceBalls |
It is normal to think .... ooh oh, it is another riceball shop in Melaka but wait, wait, for we may be making an incorrect assumption now.
The famous Chung Wah Hainanese Chicken RiceBalls need no introduction here because it is already famous. People had queued across Tan Kim Seng bridge to the edge of Dutch Square just to wait under the sun for their turn to be seated.
I still remembers that Chung Wah was another coffee shop to serve chicken rice and coffee to people who worked around that area, now a heritage zone.
Most of Chung Wah's customer, wasn't the same as today who comes from outside Melaka but were those who had walked from the former Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation building on Jalan Kota. Maybe, beyond the bank to as far as the Bastion House of Dunlop office once upon a time.
On Lorong Hang Jebat, people walked to Chung Wah from the nearest office of Tan, Chow & Loh Stocks & Securities firm to as far as the former wet market and on the other end of this road, from the distance of where Tan Soon Hing Trading was located or beyond into Kampong Pantei, or Bunga Raya Road.
Melaka then was a backwater in the history of rice but the main staple of food is rice and the folks adopted many methods of cooking rice.
Since the imperial days, China favored foreign trade and the relationship of China and Melaka was established since the Sultanate era when Admiral Zheng He discovered the fishing village named by Parameswara.
China is huge and many men sailed to different parts of South-East Asia and of course Malacca, after the Silk-Road was established.
Most of these men arrived in vessels across the South China Seas to Melaka came from southern parts of China and the Hainanese from the Hainan Province join the boats. The Hainanese marinated the rice with freshly broth chicken soup like what their forefathers did in their homeland, Hainan Island. Their marinated rice and poached chicken is uniquely fragrance with lighter and mild natural seasonings.
Hainan chicken rice is a popular dish in South-East Asia today, and this authentic recipe was copied by other communities when intermarriages was a common affair during the Kingdom Of The Sultanate of Malacca.
Not every Hainanese chicken rice shop gives the same taste, and to find one which can serve you appetizing, full-bodied infused pure poached chicken marinated tempting riceballs is only a few.
So far, four shops, I reviewed. One, being the oldest shop in business, the second is a kin of the oldest shop, the third is a halal shop, and the fourth is this one.
Instead of telling you which shop is better, I would rather let you rank them.
The Uncle Pang's Chicken RiceBalls shop is located at 109 on Jalan Kubu, Melaka and at this moment of time, uncle sell on Saturday and Sunday from 7.30 a.m. to about 2.00 p.m. in the afternoon.
Parking is free on Saturdays and Sundays and parking lots are available near to the Malacca Chinese Methodist Church and Pay Fong Middle School, lanes behind and adjacent to the Yok Bin Primary School and along Jalan Tan Chay Yan parallel to the Stadium Hang Tuah.
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