POST DATED 28/11/09 , Saturday
Everyone was exhausted after the gateway in A'Famosa - the Animal World Safari. Our next destination was Malacca... a famous town where the both Portuguese and British once rule. We left about 4pm from A'Famosa. It's a 45 mins drive from Alor Gajah and reached Malacca about 5pm. We dropped by the 'Tan Kim Hock', famous with their durian dodol. We spent few hundred in the store for the souvenir.
With the help of GPS, we are managed to find our way to 'Garden City service apartment'. After settle down and took a rest in the apartment, we went for Nyonya Food for our dinner.
POST DATED 29/11/09 , Sunday
The next day morning we went to the Jonker Street. The Jonker Street is not only known for its cultural attractions and unique building architectures, but delicious foods and local delicacies as well. Being day or night, Jonker Street or Jonker Walk, the street is full of a number of shops and cafes selling a wide variety of foods and beverages.
Everyone was exhausted after the gateway in A'Famosa - the Animal World Safari. Our next destination was Malacca... a famous town where the both Portuguese and British once rule. We left about 4pm from A'Famosa. It's a 45 mins drive from Alor Gajah and reached Malacca about 5pm. We dropped by the 'Tan Kim Hock', famous with their durian dodol. We spent few hundred in the store for the souvenir.
With the help of GPS, we are managed to find our way to 'Garden City service apartment'. After settle down and took a rest in the apartment, we went for Nyonya Food for our dinner.
POST DATED 29/11/09 , Sunday
The next day morning we went to the Jonker Street. The Jonker Street is not only known for its cultural attractions and unique building architectures, but delicious foods and local delicacies as well. Being day or night, Jonker Street or Jonker Walk, the street is full of a number of shops and cafes selling a wide variety of foods and beverages.
We visited the 'Baba Nyonya House Museum'One of Malacca’s signature food is Chicken Rice Balls, which is nothing but Hainan Chicken Rice served using rice shaped like a ping pong sized ball. And a trip to Malacca wouldn’t be complete without having Chicken Rice Balls. The first thing we had as soon as we arrived in Malacca was Koo Cheng's chicken rice balls for lunch, at 12.30pm!
Malacca Transportation Museum
This is Christ Church, constructed in 1753 from pink bricks brought from Holland. Started off as a Dutch Reformed Church, but the Brits came through and converted it to an Anglican Church and added a bell tower.
yeah, yeah, yeah....
Crossed the bridge to reach Stadhuys and spotted this small wind mill surrounded by colorful flowers.
The weather was really hot and everyone was thirsty after the walk. We went to 'Sam Shu Gong's store that serves Durian Cendol, probably the best along the street.
We stroll through the street with eagle eyes to hunt and bargain for unique souvenirs since that we still have sufficient time.
After we walked along the street back and forth at least 2 times, we bade farewell to Malacca. We left Malacca about 4pm. It was a terrible jam at the Seremban Highway, we reached home about 10pm.
