A trip down Malacca
On the end of last year, Su Lin & me were able to make a trip together down to this historic city of our nation, Malacca. Call it our little vacation and as we had no extra money to spare, we decided to have a one day trip, emm, actually a half-day trip.
we left Seremban at 11.30am on a bus (RM5 something per trip per person) and reached Malacca bus terminal at around 1pm. From there, you can take the town bus to Makhota (RM0.80 per trip per person) where you'll reach the Christ Church.
notice a glass room at the right beside the fridge? that's the room with a machine to turn the rice into rice balls! i wonder whether it can do the same with our waste products, imagine a shit ball!
We had the infamous chicken rice balls for lunch. Nothing special actually, it's just chicken rice made into balls, dunno why it's so hyped up as a must eat in Malacca. Heck, the chicken rice balls are not even as big as my balls, ha! It is also not cheap, ten rice balls cost you RM6, plus the chicken for two is RM7, it totals up to RM13! which is double the price you eat in normal chicken rice stall. Maybe I'm not in the right place, we ate it in Famosa Chicken rice ball sdn. bhd beside Renaissance Hotel. If anybody of you have a better place, pls introduce to me to prove me wrong on malacca chicken rice balls.
Then we headed to Christ church. Later we lepak around Jonker street, it's really special though, they have a lot of Malacca delicacies (chendol, pineapple biscuits, etc) and antique shops here. Well, it's really true about Malacca chendol, it's the best i ever eaten in my life! We had it in this shop called Jonker dessert (88). When you ordered the shaved ice, you'll see the tauke pouring generously the thick gula malacca and creamy santan that you just can't wait to have a bite of it! It's really really nice, a bite of it make you feel like in bloody heaven.
this is the baba chendol (RM1.80). note the thick gula malacca and creamy santan....it's definately a must try when you are in malacca
this is mangoe ice kacang (RM2.70). they use real mangoe slices!! i repeat, real mangoe slices!! wa, i'm so going to go back there again to grab a bowl of this
After trying the chendol malacca, we headed to the Saint Paul hill to visit the ruin of Saint Paul church and the A'famosa (which has a very tongue twisting portoguse name that I forgot). More photos here
That's all, it's a very sweet afternoon and having thought that, this is the first time two of us went to somewhere that none of us are familiar with...so it's our first travel together, wow! We actually wanted to try the satay chellup, but unfortunately it's only open in late evening and the last bus back to Seremban is at 7.30pm so we didn't dare to take the risk, well, maybe next time. I'll sure come back for another bowl of the wonderful chendol!