Forgotten update.

I totally forgot about these photos. My eyes caught up at MELAKA folder when I was browsing through my album folders. Then I remember I only did half of the post about my visit to Melaka. Im so getting alzheimered  due too much rest!

I dont know whether u guys still remember about the history of foot binding a.k.a Lotus Feet during the 10th century. It is proven that women are willing to go through severe pain and torment themselves to look beautiful.

Yea.. but Lotus Feet? Errmmm.. I still unsure how such hideous feet can be attractive lo. I rather endure the pain of 8 inch stiletto, plus climbing the Batu Caves 272 stair cases in it, instead bandage my feet until looks like ermm cocoon something like that. The prince who loves and admires those Lotus Feet back in 10th century must be psycho bondage crazy bastard who loves to see tormented women in pain.  

And we strolled along the streets.. with many many Tokongs. Dah nama nya Jalan Tokong kan. But I the temples here are very artistic. Or maybe it just me with minds keep telling me "you are in Melaka.. everything here is supposed to look artistic and authentic.."

But hey, really lah! Even normal souvenir shops here looks very artsy. Man...I never saw 2 bicycles looks so artsy before.

After I took this wind chime, the shop owner finally said to me "ermmm supposed u can't take picture inside this shop"

On my way out, I still took this shot and cabuttttttttttttttttttttttt..!

Ok, then we moved to see the big bulk of Portuguese's leftover.

Ah, it's just gate for God's sake. Why people make such a fuss about it. Because it was built 200 years ago or what? Try dig some fossils, u might find something which is more than million years ago.

Stairway to Heaven, no actually to a cemetery. These people hor.. very afraid to go and visit cemetery, be it Chinese or Malay Cemetery, all said very suay to step into one..

And yet they don't know that when they at ruins of St Paul Church, they are in cemetery area, strike a pose some more.

This is the original ruins of St Paul Church for you to believe.

There, it's all grave yard lah.

Then we went in to another graveyard area which is located at lower part of St Paul Church's ruins. Lucky it's free. Hurmm.. nothing to mourn about.. cuz Im not related to any of this dutch corpse laying inside. Super boring la..

Okay, everything has come to an end. Just like the those dutch inside the tomb. But we end our day not like that la.. but we end it with Ikan Bakar (grilled / bbq fish)

I don't know this place but my friend lead us to it.

The crowd and view was ok - ok. Im tired and my armpit was so sticky at that moment. I don't care anymore.

Not again...I had too much of these in Vietnam and I think I don't want to see any of these until year 2011.

The sauce for our bbq fish. Nothing special, it just a salty soy sauce with onions and lime. U can do this at home.

Argghh.. don't order this guys. The taste is horrible. The size is so big and taste like mud. If u wanna eat this bamboo shelled thingy, find the small ones.

The prawn was nice. Big, fresh and sweet. But still la.. the sauce to go with it was... ordinary. so it didn't compliment the taste of the prawns very much. So, u can do this at home too.

Fried squid with flour. This is only for those who doesn't have tongue ya. Yuck!

Grilled stingray. This is my first time having an ugly, tasteless grilled stingray. what's wrong with this restaurant la? 4 of us who were mad starved can't finished this small ones.

Coconut jelly. well, this is something new for me. The taste was ok. refreshing. I should eat this all along. Not the squid, not the bamboo shell thingy, not the stingray. Just this.

Verdict: Don't spend your money here unless you are really hungry and don't believe my reviews. Buy KFC instead. Well, the sunset view at the restaurant seems very pretty cuz was taken by dslr camera. If not, it was nothing lo.

Head back to the city, where the fast foods taste better and more variety.

Im such an ungrateful bitch. Keep complaining the foods all weren't good and suck. Ok la.. I took back my words a bit la okay? When Im thinking about the food I had during my trip to HongKong last year.. ermmm.. those stingray and squid above are definitely much better. But the bamboo shelled thingy still the worst.

 

This is what I had. Iced Kailan with wasabied soy sauce. Happy?

Malacca Revisited.

Being to Malacca this time around was totally different. I've been there twice with 2 different bfs, (1st time was 7 years ago and the 2nd time was 5 years ago - and yes, they willing to drive for me for few hours, just to be with me for a whole day.. haha, love was crazy back in yesteryears..) and I couldn't imagine that Malacca has great stuff to offer. Food, culture, streets and good angle view.

and no, being to Malacca town this time didn't brought back the memories. Seeing Malacca through my Big Boi's lenses is the best memories and experience I ever had, in fact. I paused, I stood a while, looked around.. I touched the stones and walls, I enjoyed the smell and the taste of what the streets has to offer, my face and skin burning under the hot sun.. No one rushes me, I walked with my own pace and yet no one complaining... That's an ultimate freedom which no men, lovers could ever give.

We arrived exactly during lunch hour, my stomach growling when my friends keep talking about Ikan Asam Pedas and Cendol Gula Melaka. I didnt had my breakfast that morning, woke up late at 10am and rushed to Malacca from KL and tried to continue my sleep inside the car. Haaa..

So we stopped by at one of the restaurant by the Jonker Street, just because it wrote 'original Cendol Gula Melaka' and we saw a lot of customers inside. So we figured it out that this maybe one of the popular restaurant with a good food.

So, the first thing that we ordered.. was - Gulai Assam pedas Melaka, of course!

ermmm.. People said "don't judge a book by its cover" well, in this case, please do! The taste wasn't that great as we expected it to be. I love Asam pedas by Johorean more.

and the Cendol, wish they put more of gula melaka in it.

Still... for the sake of posing kan..

We have not explore the street, and yet this restaurant alone already offers traditional Chinese -  Baba and Nyonya Melaka's intricate in every corner, for us to embrace.

Complete with swirling iron stairs.. which I havent seen for ..few decades..and they still have it in here.

Every corner, is uniquely displayed.

Red and gold are the only colors. It is like, Gong Xi Fa Cai all year round in here.

The hall of the restaurant has an open roof, complemented by all the Feng Sui  features - wood, flowing water and fire from the kitchen stoves.

Walked further in, there is an altar complete with a costume for a rent (Myr 5.00) , in case if you wanna make  fun out of yourself, like what I did back in my Da Lat, Vietnam tour last month. Well, no more this time. lol

The upper floor of the restaurant is open for public viewing. Once stepped in, felt like I was in another place.

It was furnished with carves and dragons details. We can skip the visit to the museum at least.

and you can't pose like this if you were in the museum.

Boleh buat cover album Raya Cina with this.

I was looking for Mr. Wong Fei Hong..

Okay, this picture will end the post about the little museum err restaurant.

So we started to explore the Jonker streets, and the sun burning my skin resulting sticky armpits. Oh well, I don't care, I came here not to date anybody.

The portraits of faded paints, cracked wall and old window panes never appeared so beautiful to me before.

There are many antique shops along the streets, I don't bother to ask for the price of some items.. becuz in my pocket only enough for another bowl of Cendol. Yeah, the quest of original cendol gula Melaka still continues.

What a vicious creature..until being strapped down like this.

Some stalls with local delicacies

and oh.. I smelt a real good smell.. and I followed it and it brought me to this place.

It's hot, fresh from the oven. Can't help myself from not to take a bite of it. Close up of goodness. Don't pay attention to my ugly non buffered nails.

and the goodness never stopped, it followed me home =)

Yeah, finally our pursuit the taste buds of happiness came to an end! Look at the peoples queuing for the same reason.

We worked as a team, 2 of us do the queue, frank went finds his beer and me went in to find a table. Fuhh. teamwork done beautifully.

I managed to get a comfortable spot for 4 of us.

Classic. and here comes he real thing. This one with durian paste y'all!!

and this one is original, Gula Melaka style. Thick , pure coconut milk with generous amount of gula Melaka. Syiok!!! It was too bad we were still full from previous restaurant. So we missed the other good foods in here. ah.

Im hungry. Imma find something in my kitchen now. This beautiful red building will end the post this time. Continue with you know what it is after this...aiyaaa.. all those historical ruins and forts ler. Boring lah.