Chinese Dining @ Shi Xuan (食轩中华食馆)

 Let us get started on Shi Xuan Chinese Cuisine, a typical oriental Chinese dining at Taman Merdeka, Melaka. This place is a hidden gem with wide varieties of authentic Chinese cuisine at reasonable prices.

We started off the meal with an appetizer of De-Boned roasted duck. 食轩(Shi Xuan) has roast duck like no other. It is prized for the thin crispy skin with authentic version of the dish leaving just a happy thin layer of crispy skin; they are eaten with Chinese pancakes, spring onions, and sweet bean sauce.



For mains, we had the deep fried lemon chicken with a generous drizzle of the zesty lemon sauce that plays in your mouth-simply refreshing!

Next on the list is the slightly spiced oatmeal fish. This is quite a turned down dish for us as we are expecting to taste the freshness of the succulent fish, however, it is overly done and the meat are hard.

The signature dish of the restaurant – Xuan style tofu, the steamed tofu are as soft as jelly whereas the deep fried tofu taste as good as the steamed ones but with a firmer texture on the outside, yet to maintain the silky texture in the inside.

Fried buttered Calamari was perfectly done. We can just taste the nice and crunchy texture of the dish, adding to the taste when the butter is oozing out in the mouth. This dish was made into perfection!

Simmer Spinach with century eggs – this is one of the signature dishes for Shi Xuan. It is a unique dish with “unique taste”. Some may like the taste of it and some may not, however, the waited staff recommended us this dish as she says that spinach help cleanses the excessive in our body and it is also good for blood circulation.

Potato Ring with buttered ribs – This was the first time we have ever tried potato ring as what we usually have is the normal yam ring. The crisp of the potato ring that melts in our mouth is simply splendid filled with meaty buttered ribs.

The ginger wine prawns were perfectly done! I’m talking about the crunchy, firm, crisp texture when you first bite into the prawn. It is a similar texture as biting into the perfect pomelo! Simply delicious

If you want non pretentious, reliably good food at reasonable prices, Shi Xuan (食轩中华食馆) is the place to go. Best of all, it’s just a 10 min drive from (our) home-Nearby MMU Melaka.

Name:                        食轩中华食馆 @ Shi Xuan Chinese Cuisine

Address:                    No DT 3639, Jln Angkasa Nuri 1,

Tmn. Angkasa Nuri, Durian Tunggal,

Tmn Merdeka, 76100 Melaka.

Contact:                     06-3363639/3686

Operating hours:     11.30 am-2.30pm

                                    5.30pm-10.30pm

Category:                   Non-Halal