THE RECOGNISED “AH KOR” HAINANESE KOPITIAM CARRYING WITH THEIR AUTHENTIC HAINAN RECIPES IN THE HERITAGE CITY OF MALACCA
“Hainanese Kopitiam” is all the while among the local’s favourite place of dining or chinese coffee shop which being practised since century ago running by the Malaysian Chinese’s Hainan migrants initially, carrying with their Hainan’s traditional recipes on the ground being famously practised nowadays throughout the nations with respective home recipes & combinations. Here in the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established “Ah Kor” Hainanese Kopitiam/Coffee Shop running right in the heritage city of Malacca having great positive response from the market recently.
The Malacca local originated Mr. Alex Fun GuoXuan (born 1986), together with his elder brother Mr. Jonathan Fun GuoLin (born 1983) both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate brother-owners of this best recognised “Ah Kor” Hainanese Kopitiam/Coffee Shop along the Malacca city township serving all their hainanese cuisine options and signature hainan prawn noodles & laksa selections to the locals and visitors all under a roof in manner on the world’s historical floor at the middle southern nation.
The founder cum owner Alex Fun GuoXuan, at his age of 36 years old currently, who also a Professional Pilot for more than 10 years in the industry all the while having interest in eatery & culinary. Also foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry locally, added with recipes (hainan prawn noodles & laksa) being generation passed onto by his master (who is a Hainanese, having 40 years experiences in the field) in circumstances followed by the world’s (Covid19) pandemic enabled Alex Fun decided to step into the f&b industry, then bodied-up with brother Jonathan Fun and successfully established their very first owned Hainanese Kopitiam/Coffee Shop officially named the “Ah Kor Kopitiam” in the early year 2021 along the Jalan Tengkera, Kota Laksamana (Malacca) introducing their signature menus to the public. And finally 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 Ah Kor Kopitiam, the owner’s very first top recommended in menus will be their 40 years hainan’s authentic traditional “Ah Kor Hainan Prawn Noodles” which most wanted by their regulars from the beginning. At least 4-6 hours home-boiled soup base with fresh prawn shells & pork bones, cooked into with noodles option (on customer’s preference), served in mixture of sea prawns, pork slices, kangkong (water spinach) & beansprouts, finally toppings of their home-fried onions will brings a wonderful prawn’s freshness sweet tasty bowl of their Hainanese Prawn Noodles eatery that you must have a try when reached Malacca. Taken mixed into or dipping onto their sided homemade nice salty fair spicy sambal paste to be the best matching that you cannot aside here.
Secondly will be their famous “Ah Kor Laksa”, which also among the kopitiam’s daily selection favourite by most of their visitors here. Homemade laksa paste cooked into laksa broth soup base with daily fresh coconut milk (santan), then served with noodles option on customer’s selection, toppings of local fresh cockles, cucumber & fried chicken egg shredded, dried beancurds (taupok), fish cakes and chopped spring onions will brings excellent smooth laksa soup broth swallowed with salty fair spicy taste of their Ah Kor Laksa noodles soup eatery that you neither found the same elsewhere in town here in Malacca.
Another will be the middle southern local’s all time selection of “Ah Kor Yee Kiao Mee” or commonly known the Fish Ball Noodles which to be served either in soup or dry konlo on customer’s preference. Boiled noodles (in option) mixed with their home recipe soy sauce broth into home-fried pork lards, toppings of pork slices, fish cakes, beansprouts, home-fried onions & fresh chopped spring onions, and finally taken sided with their 2 hours home-boiled pork bones soup with fish balls & dried beancurd sheets/sticks will be their complete set of Dry Konlo Ah Kor Yee Kiao Mee eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Nonetheless, the owner cum founder Alex Fun also introduced his mother’s very home recipes of “Ah Kor Nasi Lemak” which among their all time favourite recommended main course in selections. Home-cooked fragrant tasty coconut milk rice (santan rice/nasi lemak) with pandan leaves, then serve-sided with water spinach (kangkong), cucumber slices, home-fried crispy ikan bilis, toppings of a sunny side chicken egg and taken sided with their homemade salty spice ikan bilis sambal will be the best combination of taking their home-cooked Ah Kor Nasi Lemak eatery here. Taken with their Fried Chicken, Sambal Prawns or Rendang Pork will always on customer’s additional options that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Hainanese Kopitiam/Coffee Shop “Ah Kor Kopitiam” right in the heritage city of Malacca on the middle southern nation of Malaysia.
AH KOR KOPITIAM
Address: No. 77,
Ground Floor,
Jalan Tengkera,
75200 Melaka.
Business Hours: 7:45am to 3:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Monday)