Famosa Chicken Rice Ball Restaurant

Malacca is well-known for its Nyonya cuisine & chicken rice-ball. Not many folks knew that Malacca is the origin of the flavoured rice-ball. These rice-balls, about the size of golf balls are taken with boiled chicken flavoured with sauce and sesame oil. The rice itself is best taken with pounded chilli-sauce.

Famosa chicken rice-ball restaurant specialises in serving these tantalising and mouth-watering rice-balls. Using traditional Hainanese chicken rice recipe, these delicious rich-balls are served with the tender and juicy chicken meat from Bukit Mertajam, which is well-known for its free-range chicken. The chicken meat is as tender as the "kampung chicken" normally found free-roaming in villages.

Apart from its signature rice-ball dishes, the restaurant also serve roast pork, duck and curry dishes to cater for more customers. The restaurant consist of 3 adjoining 100 years old shop-houses with newly renovated interior along the famous Jonker Walk, also known as the Antique Street. There is also a picture gallery within the restaurant for one to reminisce about historical Malacca, its people and olden days panorama. With a seating capacity of over 130 pax and fullly air-conditioned, the restaurant is offering its patron utmost comfort while dining in.

Famosa restaurant
Address : 28-30 Jalan Hang Kasturi, off Jonker Street / Tel : 06-2860121

Business Hours : 9:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. (Mon-Sun)

All our chicken rice ball are moulded by machine. It's clean and hygenic plus the fragrant rice flavour are maintained. Every single rice ball you consume, you will get to taste the full flavour engrained in a wholesome rice ball. It's so good you can just eat it on its own.

GOOD NEWS ! ........ To those who frequent Malacca but unable to find time to visit our restaurant in Jonker Street. We now have 4 restaurants in Malacca .... you can visit our restaurant in Jonker street and Jalan Bendahara , or if you prefer to do some shopping first before "Makan", you can also dine in at our three new restaurants in Jaya Jusco, Mahkota Parade Shopping complex (1st floor) and Tesco Hypermart (Selera food court). Bon Appetite.

Pictorial Menu

Chicken Rice Ball

Duck Rice Ball

Roast Pork Rice

Bean Sprout

Roast Duck Rice

oyster vegetables
Oyster Veges

Cabbage Tomyam