Y Sunday, January 16, 2011 ; 5:40 PM
As it begin..
5th December 2010The day was rather short on Day 3, as we spent most of the time nua-ing at the hotel room. Woke up and head down to breakfast. We suppose to wake up at 8am but I think we were too tired and woke up at 9am?
The just woke up face.
I think Audrey combination of her breakfast is weird. Dessert, English breakfast, Chinese breakfast all together?
I love this dwarf which was station outside the restaurant.
Continue to nau in the hotel room. Watched half a movie, the polar bear is really really cute. Also stuck in the washroom to dry my shoe, in the end it hopeless we wore slipper back to Singapore.
Head to Zheng He's museum (A more in-depth). Trying to be hardworking. :S
Bidding goodbye to Giraffe
The Chinese characters. I only understand the bottom 2 levels.
Sushi for lunch! I love the concept of the sushi bar. Each sushi plate were place on each boat. I shall let the pictures do the talking.
The sushi aren't like the normal one we find. In each of the dishes, they have fruits inside which I really like it a lot. We spent 70++ RM on lunch xD
Boarded the bus at 4pm and slept all the way back to Singapore.
Duration of the trip is too short. I still have not yet visit their stamps, kite and many other museums and.. My noyna food too :P
Malacca Trip Day 1Malacca Trip Day 2Labels: December 2010, holiday, malacca, malaysia, oversea, secondary
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Y Sunday, January 02, 2011 ; 5:41 PM
As it begin..
4th December 2010Woke up early to have breakfast spread.
I called this, sinful corner.
5 of 7 dwarfs are found :X
Up next, we continued our journey on sightseeing.
First stop, A'Famosa. It's built by the Portuguese in 1511 as a fortress. Not thing much to visit anyway.
The path that lead to St Paul Church. Audrey and I was like "Woah! Early in the morning climb stair liao.."
Second Stop, St Paul Church. Also built by the Portuguese, but later on it was owned by the Dutch. It is a buried ground for the noble dead.
Third stop, The Stadthuys - . It's my favorite museum of all as it feature how Malaaca was formed, built, in short the history of Malacca. There a timeline to go follow, we spent around 3 hours there? It's used to be the official residence of Dutch Governors. With just 5RM per person, you can visit 5 museums. :D
Anyway, Audrey and I got separated in this museum. Apparently, her speed reading was much faster than me. xD
It said Malacca cannons are usually smaller and lighting than other canons. Its easier for them to carry around.
View from the museum.
Fourth! Zheng He's museum. A famous Chinese explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral. Went around visiting Asia and Africa (I think).
I'm at the bottom.
She's at the top.
Fifth! I think it the Dutch museum. Only if my house are like this..
Sixth! Education museum. Look what Audrey is doing.
Chalk we used in the old days.
We went visiting 2 other more, but due to our hungriness we walked pass it. Not really walked pass it, I should said we took a very quick look and head up to our lunch/dinner.
We agreed to have Nyonya food for lunch but we overshot our schedule by a few hours (We have spent too much time in all the museums, it already 5 when we are out) the shop are closed, we dropped by at some coffee shop and have some simple food.
Head up to Cheng Hoon Teng Temple too and purchased some last min food to be brought back to Singapore nearby. I still don’t understand why our mum ask us to buy Raw sugar from Malacca, I brought 3 and Audrey brought 7.
Big pineapple tart
We took this picture in the middle of the cross junction. xD
And we head back to Jonker Street again :D
We brought a lot a lot of random food to eat this time round as we would like to try the street side food.
I like this little fish thing, we brought a box back to Singapore the next day. But I didn’t know what the filling is, I guess it's Kaya.
We went for 2nd round of Potatoes feast.
Greedy Audrey
Beautiful handmade necklaces.
We stopover for Malacca famous dessert, Chandol. And also to grab the wireless connection there. :) Sinful but it's really nice :D
We continue our food hunt. Street side seafood stall.
Wanted to buy food from the Japanese store but since we are heading for Japanese lunch the next day. We give a miss.
We brought sprinkling juices back. I love the peach flavor.
We dropped by to a shop which sell lots of handcraft. Glad that we went in, next moment we know. It's a heavy downpour.
Since the rain didn’t stopped for long, we had no choice but to head back to the hotel (Otherwise, the shop keeper will chase us out, it already midnight). We were all drenched by the time we reach the hotel, the umbrella aren't useful at all :S
Last picture, our supper :D
We spent the rest of the night packing our luggage. 80% of the time our eyes are glue to the TV, that explain why we only pack finish our stuff at around 2am? So few items but yet we took such a long time to pack. :S
Malacca Trip Day 1Labels: December 2010, holiday, malacca, malaysia, oversea, secondary
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Y Saturday, December 18, 2010 ; 2:09 AM
As it begin..
After a massive intensive studies for a month and a half in school. A weekend gateway escape with Audrey. She too, after a serious intensive studies (I swear, she was pulling her hair when I was mugging with her). Anyway, she scored well for her exam. :D
The trip was relaxing, enjoyable and of course fun. :) One bad thing was.. I was seriously having a bad flu. Flu love to attack me right after exams. :(
3rd December 2010Met up with Audrey at Someset MRT around 6.30am. MacDonald for breakfast in the middle of the town. Drag our 'empty' luggage to the meet-up point. It's a 4 hours ride from Singapore to Malacca. Throughout the whole journey I was sleeping, sneezing (they blast the air-con) and sleeping
again.
Reached around 1.30pm, checked in at Hotel Equatorial Melaka.
The hotel we stayed was not bad, there are 3 shopping malls beside the hotel. Centralize area between all Museums, just that Jonker Street was quite far away from our hotel.
Head out to the nearby food center for a light lunch.
Prawn noodles, 4RM I think. It's nice, through the soup look spicy but it's sweet. Didn’t manage to take Audrey's bat kut teh. By the time I took my camera, she had already begun her meal. xD
While waiting for our food to be served
First stop, Maritime Museum & Naval Museum.
The museum is a Portuguese ship that sank off the coast of Melaka while on it way to Portugal. It featured the artifacts, documents and information from the Melaka's era. I was surprised that it was ruled by the Portuguese for 128 years, to Dutch, to Japanese and finally to British. My knowledge had increased. :)
Look at the dark clouds behind us. :S
Since, we sensed that the dark clouds are on it way. We quickly left the place and head up to The Culture Center (I think that what it's call), where it sell all the handcraft stuffs and local dried food. Rotting around the place while waiting for the rain to stop.
Glad that it's just a pass-by rain, we continued our journey to Jonker Street (The place we look forward) Since Malacca was ruled by Dutch before. It's wasn’t surprise to find a mini windmill there.
Stopover at some café to have a drink, the place is famous for the egg tarts.
We asked the owner about the Ferris Wheel. Sad to say, it was demolished early this year, I was sooooo looking forward to that.
We visited almost all the shop houses in Jonker Street, till we are sort of 'lost'. Nevertheless, it's fun exploring new area. Checking out location of all museums and of course, shopping trip. ;) that's the girls favorite (?) hobby? :P
During the evening of weekend, stall will be set up along the roadside from 6pm till 1.30am. I think.
While on the way to our dinner, this particular street food stall caught our attention. Fried potatoes..
It's actually a whole potatoes being slice into chips, drip into the special sauces above, fried and deep fried again, lastly it's sprinkle with special sauces. *thumb up for you if you understood what I typed above*
Happy Audrey with the fried potatoes. Skipped it as I still having terrible flu.
When you are in Malacca, Chicken Rice Ball is a must to try. The chicken rice has been rolled into a ball (Similar to fishball). Unique :)
Both of us didn’t finish up the rice, it's kind of too much. Partly, because we want to try more food in those street stall. Overall, it's taste great :)
Walked around Jonker Street, it's like the Pasar malam we have in Singapore. But they are selling lots of interesting and nicer stuffs there. We stopped over at one of the temple where there are aunties dancing line dance inside the Hokkien temple. According to Audrey, it is one of the kind you may find in Asia. Cool, they are dancing the famous korean song "Nobody, nobody, nobody but you!"
The lady with the white headband is 'zai'. She is the most hip among the crowd.
To end this post, I shall post my favorite siew mai picture. 7 for 3RM, I love that :D
PS: I typed this based on whatever it came into my mind. Therefore, the arrangement/linking look kind of weird. Bear with it all right? I'm kind of always to read back from the top. :S
Labels: December 2010, holiday, malacca, malaysia
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