Historical Malacca

One of the rows of shop houses - some of the shops were restored and this is one of it



Another shop house been refurbished - with beautiful carving

We were in Malacca over the weekend (day trip) - so called "Jalan-jalan cari makan". Starts our journey around 9.30am, arrived Malacca town around 12pm, straigt to the Portuguese settlement to have lunch.

YF, Sally and Nav

Another group of people from our office were also there - but didn't bump into them.

Banda Hilir - the main tourist attraction, we didn't visit this place. To us, nothing to explore here as from small, we were exposed to this place (visited so many times during our schooling days - so called "rombongan sekolah").

We instead go to Jonker Street - rows of shophouses sell so many kinda things, from antiques to accessories. Our main purpose is.... fooooood. Main attraction is its dessert - variety of ice shave you can enjoy here, from ice kacang to cendol - you can't compare Jonker Street's ice shave with others in KL especially it's cendol - one word I can express.... superb!

Browsing the menu

Apart from dessert, try out the nyonya kuih (cakes), curry laksa, assam laksa and the Baba Nyonya dishes... hmmmmmmm...... yummmmyyyyyyy!

Enjoying the cendol

p/s Look out for "Jonker 88" - the famous dessert shop. When you are here, also try out the 'pineapple tart' - bake daily.

Its a night market on Saturday and we get a chance to taste so many food - tried out their 'popiah', hmmmm taste good.

Don't forget to also try the "Chicken Rice Ball" - you must be wondering what is it. Its the normal chicken rice but the rice is round like a ball shape.

At one of the junction - a number of bars you can find here

We window shop for about 3hours here and its time for dinner - we gonna have "satay celup" and this is the first time for me. All this while I was wondering what is satay celup and finally I got to taste it - not bad, something different. Its like the 'lok-lok' and 'stamboat' but with satay sauce instead. I wonder what they do with the excess sauce (from every table) ???????

After 'satay celup' we were like a python... how are we going to drive back to KL?????

Take a slow drive back to KL, but knowing me.... I'll fall a sleep if driving like this, so... you should know what I did... he..he..

One thing I don't like about Malacca is their parking system - you have to purchase the coupon, scratch and display, and the fee is only 60cents per hour and.... you have to purchase 1 booklet that cost you RM3 or RM3.50 (for 5 hours??? am I right???). I wonder whether they make money out of it with the cost of printing, this and that.... ????? and the worst thing is not all shops selling this coupon and the booth..... I don't see any booth surrounding Jonker Street.

Not a friendly system at all.