Melaka Shopping Tips by yipsufen

Pusat Pengeluaran Utama Makanan Tan Kim Hock: Distributor of Local Food Products

This is a shop where most tourists to Melaka will converge here for some shopping. You can find Melaka local produce and food stuff of all around Malaysia. It's a hot spot for group tourist.

What to buy: Some famous products from Tan Kim Hock are durian and coconut sweets, Melaka sugar, pineapple tarts, Cincalok and Dodol (durian paste). Other Malaysian food stuff - white coffee, fragrant biscuits, nutmeg, Belacan, Keropok (fish & prawn crackers), Bak Kut Teh (Pork's rib soup) soup base, ginger sweet... just to name a few. Choices are abundant here with unlimited stock supplies. Ask the sale assistants for food sampling.

If you like to taste their chendol made from sweet Melaka sugar, purchase your RM3 coupon from the cashier at the main entrance. Available in durian flavour too.

Address: Lot 182, Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho, 75000 Melaka

Other Contact: Fax: 06-2832320

Phone: 06-2835322/3/4

Theme: Food and Drink

Pahlawan Mall: The Latest Shopping Mall in Melaka

Theme: Women's Clothes

Jusco Ayer Keroh: Shopping Mall & Departmental Stores in Melaka

This is a shopping mall with Jusco as an anchor tenant. Singaporeans like to cross the causeway over the weekends and stock up some groceries and household items here as they are cheaper comparatively. You need to pay parking fees eventhough you are parking outside of Jusco's compounds.

Theme: Department Store

The Orang Utan House: T-shirt with Bold Message

What to buy: This is a shop which sells some funky T-shirts with bold messages and collectible art items. Of course their trademark item is the one with Orang Utan.

Theme: Art

Jonker Walk

What to buy: Jonker Walk, is where the most interesting shopping activities take place. The street contains every imaginable trades: spirits importers, hairdresing salons, wooden shoe stores, apothecaries with Chinese herbs on display, sign printers, an acupuncture clinic, several furniture factories, etc. There is also a combination craft shop and restaurant with Peranakan ambience.

You will find treasures such as ornate oil lamps, opium beds, altar stands, Victorian clocks and early gramophones in the antique shops of Jonker Walk.

After a tired hunt of antiques, why not rest your feets at one of the shops (No.88) which offers the best dessert and chendol.

Theme: Antiques

Pickled Shrimps (Cincalok) - A Treat for Any Meal

What to buy: Made of tiny shrimps and vinegar, this pinkish meal enhancer is a well-loved traditional appetizer among the locals. Popular for its exotic flavour, the cincalok is usually added to rice for a more fulfilling meal. Sold in bottles, you can purchase this delicacy at the stalls by the beach of Jalan Klebang or at any tourist spots.

Just add a little bit of chilli shreds, lime and onion shreds, it ban be served as a flavouring sauce with rice or as an appetizer.

Theme: Food and Drink

Antiques - Collectibles of the Dynasties

What to buy: Fancy bringing back priceless Chinese porcelain home ? Well, just walk into any of the antique shops along Jonker Walk.

Antique lovers all over the world should take a look at the extraordinary findings they have in those shops from the Sung, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Apart from antiques, pieces of brassware and ancient jewelry, you will also find exquisite porcelain from the 17th century Dutch and 18th Century Japan there. The shops are lined along Jonker Walk.

Theme: Antiques