I am so lazy to write a separate blog post for this eatery, hence, I shall just post as it is, a raw (yet to be edited) copy of my food-related news story. After running / driving around Malacca town for five events in two days continuously, and trying to rush all the stories at one go, this is what I have written or able to vomit out. I foresee my editor will be asking me to rewrite the story.

My verdict?

The lamb shank he served me the other day was a little over cooked and difficult to chew. You should request / remind him when you order the dish to avoid my incident. While the price are still somewhat reasonable for Malacca’s standard, I don’t see the reason for tourists to dine in a hotel’s cafe when they are spoilt with and have so many options of local street stalls.

Meeting Place 123 is the newly established restaurant by Emperor Hotel, providing the locals and foreign tourists a new casual dining place to have their favourite street food, authentic Nyonya dishes and also the western chops and grills.

“We may serve a huge variety of food, but what makes us stand out is our unbeatable price.

“The café is run by the F&B department of the hotel, but the price is definitely street price,” said Meeting Place 123’s manager, Peter Ang.

On the menu are delicacies and desserts from local Mamak, Chinese, Malay, Peranakan, Nyonya, American and even Italians.

Standing out from the rest are none other than the restaurant’s signature dishes, the lamb Shank ‘Harissa’.

With more than 10 kinds of herbs and spices used to marinate the lamb shank overnight, rest assured that the meat has fully absorbed the unique taste of herbs like thymes, rosemary, basil, cinnamon, star anise, mustard, fennel and cumin.

The slight saltiness in it, combined with the tender and juicy mutton, will excite your taste bud and appetite easily. It does not end there; there is a hint of spiciness and numbness left around your tongue after that.

“I created the sauce myself after many trials and combinations of the herbs and spices,” said the main chef, Ignatius De Silva who has more than 26 years of cooking experience.

Cajun chicken is also another specialty, where chicken breast meat is seasoned with Cajun spices and seared to perfection.

For the health consious or dieting individuals, you can try the Perch Fish Mirelle, where fish fillet are deep fried and then served with tomato coulis and bearnaise sauce.

“We also have otak-otak, top hat, spaghetti olio, fried rice, char kuey toew, nyonya laksa, lemon grass squids, chicken pong teh, Chuan An fish, asam prawns and even roti canai,” added Ignatius.

Apart from serving delicious food, Meeting Place 123 also serves as a place for English Premier League fans to gather and watch their games on the huge projector television.

“Weekends are EPL Nighs and there are special promotion for the beers and tidbits for football fans,” added Ang.

Apart from beers, they also serve a variety of imported house wines, mocktails and cocktails, all personally prepared by Ang himself.

He also added that there are different promotions for different days of the week, such as ladies’ night, travel trade night, bankers’ night and chilled out nights.

Meeting Place 123
The Emperor Hotel Malacca
123, Jalan Munshi Abdullah,
75100, Melaka.

06-2840777

Bad, right?