Malacca

As we counted down the weeks to our short trip to Malaysia and Singapore, our friends had started calling it the Great Food Trip. With reason of course, because after laying out our itinerary, we all realized that our plans and destinations had something to do with food. Number one on our list of tourist spots to visit was Malacca, about two hours away from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, not for the architecture or the history or those charming colorful trishaws, but for the best chicken rice balls in the planet.

Just as Cebu is known for its lechon and Hong Kong for its roast goose, Malacca is known for its chicken rice balls. And you can just imagine the million and one restaurants that claim to have the best, or the original, or the most famous version of their locale's specialty. Being the responsible travelers that we are, we scoured the most reliable and comprehensive source of information we could get our hands on for that one place that the locals considered to have the best chicken rice balls in Malacca. Ever-reliable Google said Hoe Kee, and so that's where we went.