Melaka trip part 5 - Portuguese settlement

After a day of activities, evening has came and everybody head towards portuguese settlement for some seafood. The people there should be heir of portuguese. But they look quite localized already. I remember when I went there donkey years ago, there was only one stall. Now it operate like a zi char stalls.


Every stall owner trying to pull us away


Look, so many stalls, like hawker centre


We are eating beside the beach.


Can see sunset somemore


The first dish was the grill fish, looks good right?


Then, come the sambal chicken


Asam fish with lady's finger and others


The scallop was yummy


Steam fish


Finally, it is crab time. Just alright only.

After the meal, our Melaka trip ended and everybody heading home.

Melaka trip part 4 - Jonker walk, St Paul Hill

I didn't really finish on the chicken rice ball. So, here are some more pictures.


The coffee shop signboard. The first shop who come out with this dish


Rice ball on close up

Ok, after eating, it is time to move on. But, guess what happen, they went into another shop to eat again!


Look at what they have ordered.


Laksa in close up, it does look very yummy


Another bowl of cendol. But this time is the Durian cendol. Taste not nice.


If you walk down the Jonker street on day time, still get to buy more kueh.


Many shops selling the handycraft


Ok, now is some history about the street. Why it is called Jonker walk.

After eating so many things, everybody move back to Mahkota Parade again. Some people went sight seeing.


The St Paul Hill church. Some 400 years at least.




Good view from the top of the hill. You can see almost the whole Melaka city. Guess that's what make it special.

Melaka trip part 3 - Dataran Pahlawan, Chicken rice ball

After sleep for one night, the next day we had the Melaka Da Pau for breakfast and set off to Mahkota Parade. There is a new shopping centre opposite it called Dataran Pahlawan.


Side view of the mall. It is a double storey building with shop at level 1 and open space at level 2.


We walked past the museum. Seems like not many people go there.


Old train


We walked pass the centre area again for the Chicken Rice ball.


Finally, we reach the Chung Wah coffee shop. This is the first coffee shop selling the chicken rice ball.


This is what we had. Frankly speaking, I was never a fan of chicken rice ball. The chicken just taste like any other hainanese chicken. The rice ball is expensive and not tastier than the usual rice. Why take so much trouble?

Melaka trip part 2 - Wanton mee and satay celup

When I was in the pasar malam, I wanted to eat the char kueh on sell. It is really authentic road side food which looks, smell good. But, as we have dinner plan, therefore I didn't eat that.

We proceed to the satay celup store, but the queue was quite long. So, we decided to try the Melaka wanton mee, which my friend said very good.


This is what the wanton mee looks like. I think somehow every place has their own version of wanton mee. This mee obviously looks different from all combination I have tried so far. So, just give it a try. It doesn't really impress me actually. The mee is special, but the rest think that is too hard. Taste wise, just alright. Still like the Pontian wanton mee.


After the wanton mee, we went back to queue for satay celup. Other friend said die die must try. This is a 60 years shop which selling the satay steamboat. Meaning instead of clear soup, the base is actually peanut sauce. The queue was long. We waited nearly 1 hour.


Satay celup in action. Notice the pot on the table with satay peanut sauce? You put your stick of ingredient inside, until it is cooked. But, as you eat, it get messy and messier. Because the peanut sauce would spill onto the table more and more.

Melaka trip part 1 - Ole Sayang, Jonker Walk night market

The last Sat and Sun, went with colleagues to Melaka for a weekend tour. It was pretty fun, as we have car to move around and a local to bring us around. Know where are the good food place is great.

Here are some of the snapshot.


First we stop at the Ole Sayang restaurant. Famous for the nonya food.


We have prawn first. Not spicy.


Then, we have the sambal chicken which is pretty good. Especially the gravy.


Last, is of course a cendol to wrap up the meal.


When, we leave for the resort apartment. This is the countdown traffic light. Only found in Melaka.


Outside the window of the apartment unit. The sea is all yours.


We park the car near Mahkota Parade and walk past the centre area to Jonker Walk.


This is what we called Pasar Malam. Anything other than this is not really.


Pay $1 for the karaoke session


Hawker selling satay at the roadside. Yum yum.