'Joey's Blog': Calanthe Art cafe

In case you have missed my previous posts

Hello, im finally came to an end of my Malacca post. Being so detailed in every single post, I hope this travelogue will bring you good if you want to travel to this country. Trying to squeeze in my last post of the cafes that we tried on this trip.

Its true that you can find many cafes here but the most popular cafes that I am going to mention would be Mods cafe and Calanthe Art Cafe. A coffee would be good for a chillax session after all the long & heavy walk. On the first day of our trip, we scouted this "Kampong" village feel cafe right at the edge of the street road.

This particular art cafe named Calanthe Art Cafe on Jalan Hang Kasturi is extremely popular among the visitors to this beautiful heritage town. Just looking from outside, it make you feel home.

I apologised for the blur-ish photos. My DSLR find faults with me throughout the whole trip. It went blur when I want to focus on one area, also the pictures came out to be very dull in colour. I spent most of the time adjusting my camera mode, hoping to get a better image.

Anyway, we were welcomed by the staffs and they brought us in to be seated and once the menu arrived, I stood up and went around taking of their shop. The whole cafe was vibrantly furnished, with eclectic and creative touches such as rattan furniture hanging from the ceiling, hand-painted walls, and little trinkets on shelves throughout the property.

Having our high tea session here and we skipped on their main dishes and ordered their curly fries, chocolate brownies and their ice-blended snickers. Their brownies was surprisingly sticky and it literally stick on my teeth when I had my bite. It tastes not bad although it is very sweet.

Snickers ice-blended was good. They added in alittle coffee as I can taste the bitterness of the drink ( arent snicker supposed to be sticky and sweet?)

Their service here is good! One of the staff helped us with the photos and their waiters that served us wear a smile too and have very good customer service. I definitely recommend this cafe to all of you who is reading this and I can tell you that the price of the food and drinks are reasonable.

Go for their coffee because there are more than 50 choices to choose from. Some will surprise you with the drinks that they mix in.

Calanthe Art Cafe

Jalan Hang Kasturi, 75200 Melaka.

06-2922960

Monday to Wednesday: 12.00pm-11.00pm

Friday: 12.00pm-12.00am

Saturday: 8.30am-12.00am

Sunday: 8.30am-11.00pm

Closed on Thursdays

Next up, on the second day, we went in to Mods cafe that we have missed out on the first day. Their opening hour starts from 10am and close at 6pm. I remembered both of us came in at 5.45pm and was shoo-ed off politely by the staffs. "Sorry, we are closed for the day, please come back tomorrow!'' was the sentence that they told us.

This time round we went in punctually to the cafe and there were 2 tables being occupied! By counting our fingers, these are the number of tables in the shop. It was fairly small and squeezy! Hello, back to the 80's vintage-theme cafe. Everything here was back to the oldies day! Im pretty sure your mama and papa will love it too!

The unique of Mods Cafe is they park their coffee truck inside the tiny cafe with the nicely decorate retro design. The place is relaxing and cooling.

Can you believe that the small van is actually a place for them to brew their coffee? Not only that, they made their drinks from the counter too. So adorable much!

Menu was a simple one with only coffees/ soda drinks and a few of their dessert. Please come with a full tummy because they don't serve any main dishes here. Perfectly for high tea session only!