TASTE THE RECOGNISED “GRANDPAK KOPITIAM” NANYANG CUISINES RUNNING IN THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN @ MALACCA
“Nanyang Cuisine” is all the while a kind of the southeast asian’s traditional local delicacy authentic cuisines & eateries with recipes favourite by the locals since decades, and being widely practised commonly in Malaysia and Singapore with respective home recipes combination of local & chinese cuisines on the ground. Here in the middle southern nation of Malaysia, we found and being recognised among the best recommended new established Nanyang Cuisine Kopitiam “Grandpak” running along the heritage city of Malacca having great positive response from the market recently.
The Malacca local originated Mr. Jayson Chong Yong Sheng (born 1990), together with his wife Ms. Jaslyn Tai Shing Rou (Malacca, born 1993) both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate couple owners of this best recognised Nanyang Cuisine Restaurant “Grandpak Kopitiam” in the Malacca city serving all their very home-cooked nanyang recipe selections and other signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in an better dining environmental eating house in manner.
The founder cum first owner Jayson Chong Yong Sheng, who at his age of 32 years old currently, is an Interior Designer all the while having interest in eatery & culinary been initially touched the f&b industry at his 13th of age running his bubble milk tea kiosk/stall in a mall at hometown Malacca with his sister in the year 2003 for a year where he realised the market opportunity in the field. With vision to have his own eating house locally, also with mother’s very home recipes on-hand and wishing to expose in the f&b career enabled Jayson Chong again decided and successfully established his very first own Nanyang Cuisine Eating House/Restaurant officially named the “Grandpak Kopitiam” at Taman Arked Sutera Jaya, Malacca in the mid-year of 2022 introducing all their home recipes to the public, fully assisted by his wife Jaslyn Tai on the floor. And being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2022 in the middle southern nation at Malacca.
In this Grandpak Kopitiam, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their hometown Malacca local’s famous traditional peranakan recipe on “Nyonya Laksa” which most wanted by the visitors. Homemade laksa paste boiled into laksa soup broth into coconut milk (santan), cooked with noodles option (on customer’s preference), and finally served toppings with dried beancurds (taupok), fish balls, fish cakes, dried beancurd sheets/sticks, fresh cockles, beansprouts, boiled chicken egg & herb leaf flakes, taken sided with their homemade sambal belacan (optional) will brings a wonderful bowl of their smooth soup swallowed with nice salty spice taste of Nyonya Laksa eatery into mouth that you must have a try when reached Malacca.
Secondly will be their Penang style/recipe of “Prawn Noodle Soup”, which also among the kopitiam’s daily soup noodle selection wanted by their customers recently. At least 4 hours home-boiled soup base with fried prawn shells, then cooked with noodles option on customer’s preference, served toppings of sea prawns, pork slices, boiled chicken egg, kangkong (water spinach), beansprouts & home-fried onions, taken sided with their homemade sambal (optional) will brings the excellent prawn’s freshness taste of Prawn Noodle Soup eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their signature “Hainan Curry Chicken Rice”, which also always among the regular’s favourite rice selection from the beginning. Local fresh feeded chicken commonly selected, prepared in cutted pieces cooked in about 1&half hours with their homemade curry paste into potatoes, lemongrass, curry leaves & coconut milk (santan) with spices/herbs mixture, then finally served with home-cooked white rice (or noodle options) with toppings of a sunny-side chicken egg sided with fried cabbage will be the best combination of taking their exotic fragrant, smooth with salty sweet fair spicy Hainan Curry Chicken Rice eatery that you cannot aside here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Nanyang Breakfast Set” which all the while like by most of the locals & visitors in a chinese coffee shop (kopitiam) serving in the combination of their in-house roasted breads filling with selected quality butter & local-made hainan kaya, a pair of half-boiled probiotic chicken egg and coming up with a cup of home-brewed hot coffee to be always the Malaysian’s famous Nanyang Breakfast Set selection that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised new established “Grandpak Kopitiam” Nanyang Cuisine Restaurant on the heritage city of Malacca.
GRANDPAK KOPITIAM
Address: No. 5,
Jalan Keruing Merah 1,
Taman Arked Sutera Jaya,
75350 Melaka.
Business Hours: 7:30am to 3:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Monday)