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29 December 2010
Malacca 27 to 29
Woot! I'm just back from Malacca! 3 days 2 night. Tiring but fun. It has been a long time since i went overseas, not mentioning Johor Bahru. The last time i went Malacca was when i was very very young, this time i went on company trip.
The journey to Malacca was fairly long, roughly 4 hours bus ride from Singapore. I slept on the coach along the way, only came down for a short break at Yong Peng. There was no washroom on the coach itself so everything must be settled during the lunch break. Along the way to Malacca on coach, i saw a lot of trees and mountains on both sides of the road. At the start it was interesting to see mountains, but it gets boring after some time.
I had lunch at Ole Sayang restaurant before arriving at my accommodation, Avillion Legacy Melaka Hotel. This hotel looks like a castle on the outside.
The interior also looks very english style, look at its ceiling. Does it look like Rome architecture?
They still display Xmas tree even though Christmas was already over. This was the best Xmas tree i had seen this year. Why? Look closely, this is a real Xmas tree! Yes they used a real tree! Nothing beats the beauty of a real tree.
My room. Got Starmovies channel, whole day playing movies. Got bathtub also. Nothing more to ask for. I had sumptuous meals at the hotel, all buffet style. The food was OK, with fair amount of variety.
On my first day here, i explored Jusco (just nearby my hotel) and the famous Dataran Pahlawan. One thing to note, i took taxi to all the destinations, and the taxi doesn't go by meter, they go by a flat fee requested upfront by the taxi driver. So sometimes the fee was different for travelling the same distance. Jusco is just a big shopping center by itself, there was nothing around its vicinity so it was not worth going all the way there. The shops inside Jusco were very common like Daiso, KFC, Bata, no cinema, nothing special. The next stop we went to Dataran Pahlawan. This place is also a place for shopping for gifts. You can find hometown goodies, clothes, gifts here. Don't expect to find branded stuff here though.
Streets of Dataran Pahlawan. I like the chinese name: 英雄广场.
The famous 三叔工 shop is here. Alot of people came here to buy its white coffee and goodies.
One of the must-try foods at Malacca is their Satay Celup. Satay Celup is not the normal satay we had in Singapore. Satay Celup is also call steamboat satay, where an assortment of raw and semi-cooked seafood, meat and vegetables on skewers are dunked into a boiling pot of satay sauce.
The most famous Satay Celup is from Capitol. There were always long queue outside. I tried the quiet stall beside, too lazy to queue. They were so popular that they even put up a signboard to "warn" people of imitation. Haha.
Feel free to take the food you want from the fridge. They cost 6 ringgit each skewer.
Day 2. A friend told me that if you go to Malacca on December, you must visit Portuguese Settlement because there got the best Christmas decoration! Their decoration will last until end of the month. True enough, when i reached there i saw a street filled with glittering lights!
The residents here living in the Terrance houses decorated their houses very beautifully just for Christmas! Look at their houses! Their decoration will put orchid road decoration in shame!
These were all private houses, the owners really spent a lot of efforts dolling up their house.
I got a Santa in my house!!! Wow!
Portuguese Settlement is also a place for people to play with firecrackers. The firecrackers cost as cheap as 1 ringgit.
This is a firecracker that sparks on the ground.
This one shoots up into the sky with a bang. There is another firecracker that shoots multiple times to the sky, but i think it cost a lot.
I ended the night chilling out at a KTV pub by the riverside.
I missed out going to Jonker street. My opinion, Malacca is a quick getaway from the modern city. No branded, no city lights. And a good place to try out their local food too.
