Rating: 4 out of 5
Price range: RM20+ for two
Ambience: Restaurant
Style of cooking: Malaysian local (Asian)
Recommended order: Chicken rice ball, steamed chicken, assam fish
Address: 4, 6 & 8, Jalan Hang Jebat, Melaka
Business hour: Mon - Fri 9:30am til 5:30pm; Sat & Sun 9:30am til 7:30pm
If having chicken rice ball is in your Melaka bucketlist but you can't tolerate the queue at the famous Kedai Kopi Chung Wah, the next best thing is the Hoe Kee Chicken Rice Ball. Located just ten steps away, this restaurant is a pretty good substitute, not to mention, more down to earth with the friendly smiles from the servers. Another alternative would be Famosa Chicken Rice Ball which appears to be more commercialized that Chung Wah and Hoe Kee.
Although this restaurant serves most of the spilled over customers who gave up queuing at Chung Wah, the taste is comparable, though not as highly praised. Hoe Kee also offers variety of side dishes which you can't find in their competitor's restaurant next door. Dishes like kiam chai boey (leftover dishes cooked in assam brooth), assam fish head, lotus roots soup, black bean soup and fried cabbage are among the frequent orders besides the famous chicken rice ball.
A standard single person order is equivalent to 5 rice balls and a quarter steamed chicken. For extra rice, additional 2 rice balls will be served. For RM20 or less, you can get a pretty decent chicken rice ball meal for two.
Historically, plantation workers shape their rice into balls to keep the rice warm, convenient to carry into the jungle and easy to eat. Now we enjoy the chicken rice balls for its aesthetic purpose more than practicality.
Have you tried the chicken rice balls? Let us know what you think of it in the comment below.
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