FIND & TASTE THE RECOGNISED “MIKE TOAST” LOCAL DELIGHTS KOPITIAM RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN NATION @ MELAKA
“Local Delights Kopitiam” is all the while a kind of the dining coffee house or eating kopitiam which carrying the combination of local delicacy eateries on respective home recipes on the ground, also among the local’s favourite selection since decades on our nations. Here on the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Local Delights Kopitiam “Mike Toast Cafe” running along the historical city of Malacca having great positive response from the market recently.
Both the Malacca local originated Mr. Mike Chin Kok Fu (born 1971), together with his wife Ms. Alice Liow Ting Ting (born 1975) were the initial founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Local Delights Kopitiam “Mike Toast Cafe” along the Batu Berendam, Melaka presenting their very home-cooked local peranakan recipes with signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in manner on the middle southern ground.
The founder cum owner Mike Chin Kok Fu, who at his age of 52 years old currently, been formerly about 10 years in the Sales & Marketing Industry all the while having interest in eatery & culinary and with vision to have his own eating house locally being initially stepped into the f&b industry at his age of 40th together with his wife Alice Liow Ting Ting, whose since teenage helping parents in their family’s foodcourt also foreseeing the market opportunity in the field began their couple’s very first owned Hakka Porridge Eating House at Merdeka Permai, Melaka in the year 2011 running about 10 years on the same ground. Later-on moved into a foodcourt running for another few years along their journey in the field with patience.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added wishing to further expose in the career and with vision to bring Mike family’s peranakan recipes on table enabled the couple Mike Chin & Alice Liow decided then successfully established their very owned Local Delights Kopitiam officially named the “Mike Toast Cafe” in the third quarter of year 2023 at Merdeka Permai, Batu Berendam serving all their signatures to the public in better manner. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year 2023 on the middle southern nation at Malacca.
In this Mike Toast Cafe, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Chili Garam Chicken” which most wanted by their regulars. Local fresh meat chicken thigh commonly selected, cleaned then prepared in cutted pieces, soaked in salt-water to keep the chicken freshness followed by marinated with their homemade chili garam sauce paste (make in combination of thai shallots, china dried chili with seasonings mixture), and finally served after wok-fried will brings the excellent exotic fair salty spicy taste swallowed kind of their Chili Garam Chicken that you must have a try when reached Malacca. Option taken in a set sides with hot boiled white rice topped of fried sunny-side chicken egg & veges also the best combination eatery cannot aside here.
Secondly will be their famous “Pongteh Chicken”, which also among the eating house’s daily selection wanted by their customers in the local authentic peranakan recipes. Also local fresh meat chicken thigh prepared in pieces, marinated with their homemade pongteh sauce paste (made in mixtures of thai shallots, garlic & gula melaka), then home-cooked with potatoes will brings another wonderful sweetie nice kind of their Pongteh Chicken eatery that you will never regret after tasted here. Taken in set with rice, sunny-side chicken egg & veges will always on their customer’s preference.
Another will be their special “Sweet & Sour Chicken”, always among the local’s option from the beginning. Local fresh chicken breast prepared in cubes/slices, wok-fried in mixtures of capsicums, pineapple, button mushroom, tomato & cucumber with their homemade sour sweet sauce paste, and finally served hot on order will brings the best appetising sweet & sour tasty swallowed kind of chicken eatery into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here. Options taken in set with rice, chicken egg & veges also made available for the customer’s preference.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Mike’s Claypot Curry Fish” which like by most of their visitors recently. Local fresh spanish mackerel fish meat slice (majiao fish) commonly selected, cooked with their special homemade curry paste into fresh milk, served boiling hot in claypot with cabbage, tomato & curry leave will always bring the smooth curry’s swallowed itself with delicious sour fair spicy taste into mouth and the fish’s freshness kind of their Curry Fish eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised new established Local Delights Kopitiam “Mike Toast Cafe” at Merdeka Permai, Batu Berendam on the World Heritage City of Malacca.
MIKE TOAST CAFE
Address: No. 56,
Ground Floor,
Jalan IKS M5,
Taman IKS Merdeka,
Batu Berendam,
75350 Melaka.
Business Hours: 7:00am to 4:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Friday)