BELACAN MELAKA IS THE BEST!!!

Melaka is famous for a belacan. Many tourists who revisit a ancestral state will buy belacan for themselves and as gifts for family and friends behind home. For a uninitiated, belacan is simply dusty shrimp paste. Not usually any shrimp, mind you. Only shrimp locally famous as “geragau” is used. The uninformed geragau held with special nets customarily during low waves by a Portuguese fishermen will be churned with salt and finished into turn patties and left to dry underneath a prohibited sun. Once ready, it will be away packaged in cosmetic and sole during soppy markets and various shops. Local break shops in city do batch belacan (the trade mall conflicting a Samudera Museum and a Heritage Zone in Dataran Pahlawan) though purists will determine that a best and freshest is usually accessible during soppy markets and during a pasar malam (night market). For a record, there are some locals who evade commercially sole belacan and will usually prepare regulating homemade belacan finished by themselves or by relatives. However, given a infancy of us are not as propitious or absolved as these folks, belacan sole in a shops will have to do.

Well, to those unknown  with Malaysian food, belacan in a tender form mostly provokes engaging reactions especially since of a clever and particular smell. Once toasted over a stove, it releases a opposite smell that some would report as an appetizing aroma while others would explain it is a tainted odour. Aroma or odour, belacan is mostly a essential part in many signature dishes like Assam Pedas Melaka, sambal belacan, masak lemak, laksa Nyonya, sambal tumis and many more. There is no surrogate for this part and any prepare who attempts to leave it out while cooking those dishes will find out that their food will be uninspired and flat.

So if we devise to revisit Melaka, don’t forget to buy belacan. It is not easy to find Made in Melaka belacan in other states and that is a reason because so many internal tourists mostly buy it here or ask friends and kin who revisit Melaka to get them a few pieces. Homestay Warisan Melaka sells special hampers that enclose a best belacan, dodol, cincalok and gula Melaka all sourced from creditable manufacturers. Our hampers are packaged attractively and make good presents for your family and friends. Retailing during usually RM50-00 a hamper, we have finished all a tough work for we by procuring from usually a best. And if we are stumped or clueless on what to do with a belacan, cincalok and gula Melaka in a hamper, usually impute to a recipe pamphlet enclosed within. To sequence or enquire about a hampers, greatfully call Miss Siti Aishah during 06-2323 653 or email [email protected]. Delivery to your accommodation user can be arranged.

HAPPY EATING AND HAPPY COOKING!