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Melaka - Gastronomical Heaven

Melaka's cuisine very much reflects the rich cooking diversity of the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Babas & Nyonyas, Portuguese Eurasians and Chittys. Western food has always been popular and in recent years, we have seen the coming of Japanese, Taiwanese, Thai, Korean and Italian restaurants that cater to increasingly wide palates. Colourful restaurants, quaint coffee shops, hotel eateries, street stalls and open dining food courts are aplenty in Melaka, some operating well past midnight. You will never go hungry in Melaka!

Melaka Food Guide

GENERAL GUIDELINES ON THE SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS AND THE PREPARATION AND HANDLING OF HALAL FOOD.

1. HALAL FOOD

Halal food means food permitted under the Islamic Law (a law based on the Al-Quran, Al-Hadith, Ijma' (consensus) and Qiyas (deduction of analogy) according to the Syafei or any one of the Hanafi, Maliki or Hambali School of Thought or Fatwa approved by the relevant Islamic Authority) and which fulfil the following conditions:

a.	The food or its ingredients do not contain any components or products of animals that are not Halal to Muslims according to the Syariah Law, or animals which are not slaughtered according to the Syariah Law.

b.	The food does not contain any ingredients that are considered 'najis' (filthy) according to the Syariah Law.

c.	It is not prepared, processed or manufactured using equipment that is contaminated with things that are considered 'najis' according to the Syariah Law. During its preparation, processing, packaging, storage or transportation, it should be physically separated from other food that does not meet the requirements stated in items (a), (b) or (c) above or things that have been decreed as 'najis' by the Syariah Law.

2. HALAL DRINKS

All kinds of water and beverages are Halal except those that are poisonous, intoxicating, and hazardous to health or mixed with 'najis'.

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