This Straits Malacca Cafe is located in Blk 271, Waterloo Street 01-24) just next to the Waterloo Food Centre, which runs by some peranakan aunties. It opened several months ago, i had walked pass it many times and eventually tempted to try it today when i spotted the picture of this dish on its window. I grew up with this dish, which is a Malay/Peranakan dish, which is common in Sumatra and especially in Bangka region in Indonesia, and my mother cooks it often. We call it Lempah Nanas in Indonesia, could be cooked with any kind of fish or even prawn.
The dish in this cafe $5.30 which comes with rice and $.6.30 with rice and a drink. The batang/tenggiri fish (or was it Tuna 🤔) was really fresh, with chunks of pineapple, tomato, lady finger and eggplant. The broth was super intense and bold, which i really impressed with! The veggies and pineapple were cooked through and soaked with that super delicious broth, which is mix of salty sour spicy (very mild)and freshly sweet from the pineapple. Very tasty and definitely is value-for-money kind of dish. I will definitely come back here again to try other dishes, they have nasi lemak, curry chicken, lontong, fried bee hoon etc.

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