THE RECOGNISED “CITY FAMOUS” CHINESE FAMILY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN NATION @ MELAKA
“Chinese Family Seafood Restaurant” is all the while a kind of the local chinese cuisine family’s eating house that carrying the combination of local with seafood recipes under a roof which being widely practised since decades on our nations on respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the middle southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Chinese Family Seafood Restaurant “City Famous Seafood” running more than 30 years into 2-generations on the heritage city of Malacca having great positive response from the market recently.
The Selangor local originated Mr. Heng Hu Ming (born 1959), together with his wife Madam Lim Gut Ngo (Melaka, born 1957) both were the initial founders being recently running with their son Mr. Heng Yong Wei (born 1983) and daughter-in-law Ms. Ngo Lee Fong (born 1987) all are the recent immediate families owners of this best recognised Chinese Family Seafood Restaurant “City Famous Seafood” right on the Malacca territory presenting their very home-cooked chinese with seafood eateries to the locals & visitors in manner on the middle southern ground.
The founders cum owners Heng Hu Ming, who at his age of 66 years old currently been formerly a Photographer, while his wife Lim Gut Ngo was formerly been decades in the Tailoring Industry both been given an opportunity being passed onto home recipes by their Master Yong (at Muar, Johor in the late 1980s) where the couple initially touched the f&b field experienced the southern’s local delicacy assam fish recipes allowed them to began their very first partnership restaurant at Malacca in the year of 1990. Later-on successfully established their very couple-run owned Chinese Family Seafood Restaurant officially named the “City Famous Seafood” at Melaka Raya in the following year at 1991, then moved into a better environmental dining condition in the year of 1995 (current location) running 30 years on the same ground with their patience along the journey.
While son Heng Yong Wei, who at his age of 42 years old recently, also the restaurant’s current chef been initially touched the career at his late teenage and being positioned as a chef at his 20th of age taken up the responsibility as the second generation assisting parents under the same roof, subsequently joined by wife Ngo Lee Fong since year 2010 running in a families team continue serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2025 on the middle southern nation at Malacca.
In this City Famous Seafood Restaurant, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be their famous “Assam Fish Head” which most wanted by their regulars here. Local fresh sea red snapper (Jenahak) fish head on weight of about 400-600grams commonly selected (option of fish tail or fish slice on customer’s preference), prepared in 5-7 minutes home-steamed/boiled then served with their very home-cooked savoury assam sauce broth (made of assam paste, homemade sambal & home seasonings mixture) will brings the wonderful appetising sour spicy taste swallowed with the fish’s smooth freshness itself that you must have a try when reached Malacca.
Secondly will be their signature “Fried Kurau Fish” (Threadfin Fish), which also always among their customer’s daily selection from the beginning. Local fresh sea threadfin fish selected (option of pomfret or tongue fish on customer’s preference), cleaned then followed by deep fried and finally served with their home-mixed salted sweet say sauce broth, furnished sided with their homemade sambal paste taken dipping/with will brings another delicious fish eatery with their nice home-mixed soy sauce in combination that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their special “Sambal Squid & Prawn with Petai”, also among the restaurant’s daily selection wanted by their visitors all the while. Seafood combination of fresh sea squids and sea prawns wok-fried with their in-house homemade salted fair spicy chili sambal paste into onion & petai will always bring their sambal’s tasteful into mouth with the seafood’s freshness swallowed itself that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here. Taken sides with a hot plate of their home-boiled white rice will always the best matching you cannot aside here.
Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Signature Egg Boom” which like by most of their customers here. Wok-fried bundle of chicken egg into home seasonings, then simply served with their home-mixed salted sweet soy sauce broth taken crispy in bites with juicy eggy swallowed into mouth kind of their special Egg Boom (deep fried chicken egg) eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Family Seafood Restaurant “City Famous Seafood” on the historical heritage city of Malacca.
CITY FAMOUS SEAFOOD
Address: No. 500,
Taman Melaka Raya,
75000 Melaka.
Business Hours: 11:30am to 2:30pm
5:30pm to 9:30pm (Daily)