Malaysia — Malacca — The Night Market and Geographér Café, Malacca, Malaysia
Exploring the night market in Malacca
June 2015
Geographér Café
One 'famous’ bar in Malacca, Malaysia, is the Geographér Café, at 83 Jalan Hang Jebat, 75200 Malacca, Melaka. The bar is an ideal location for watching people at the night market. There is a great room upstairs with windows looking down onto the street.
It is also a place to see interesting drinks. I have no idea what the flaming tower drink is below — it looked very dangerous.
Night Market
Like many Malaysian towns, Malacca has a night market, which appears on most nights. Unfortunately, it is not one of the best examples of a night market I have come across. The Malacca night market had a lot of ‘junk’ stalls and very few food stalls. The best night markets have a lot of food on sale — vegetables, fish and meat, and cooked food. Malacca’s night market was lacking in food.
A typical non-food stall selling a lot of ‘stuff’.
The glowing trinket stall was a bit odd…
Some cooked food was available, and I found one stall selling ‘spiral potatoes’. The potato is cut into a spiral, placed on a stick, and deep-fried.
I was not too sure about the statue.
The market was bustling, but mainly with tourists. There didn’t seem to be many locals around. That is not a good sign.
Otak-otak (‘fish brains’, a spicy red fish paste cooked in a leaf) was on sale.
The satay was OK, but I’ve had better.
Most of the food was for sale at one end of the market.
The image below shows something interesting that I have not come across before. The stall was making a sort of handmade ice cream/ice thing. The material was spread out onto an icy surface and then repeatedly worked and moved around to make the final dessert.
At the far end of the market was a stage (I particularly liked the Manchester United Mister Potato backdrop) on which people were getting up and singing. It was all a bit odd, but it did attract quite a large audience.
And this was one bizarre thing. At first, I thought the stall was selling potted plants, but these things were ice creams.
Malacca night market was disappointing as it was too touristy and lacked a local Malaysian feel. I have visited much better night markets in Miri, Kota Kinabalu (KK) and Sibu in East Malaysia, and even my local weekly night market in Gelang Patah, Johor, was much better than the market in Malacca.
