How I Spent My Weekend

Malacca trip once more, but this time it's with my colleagues.

Mini Malaysia & Mini Asean - Two words. Huge disappointment. We thought we’re gonna be giants in a land of miniature Malaysia.

Turned out, Mini Malaysia basically comprises of 13 houses on stilts, designed to show the cultures in each state – Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor, Pahang, Kelantan, Terengganu, Sarawak and Sabah. Some houses were well furnished, while others were pretty run-down. The Penang house was alright but the flag was very battered.

The house with the best interior design would be the Malacca house. Biased betul. LoL.

Similarly, Mini Asean comprises of houses of Asian countries i.e. Philippines, Thailand, etc. We saw Philippines’s and Thailand’s houses from afar. Didn’t even bother to enter or check out the other countries’ houses.

The RM 12 entrance fee was so not worth it but at least we managed to create some fun for ourselves.

Rating: 3/10

All of us were hot, sweaty and hungry when we left the place. Wanted to go Bachang for the famous pai gu mien (pork ribs noodle) but apparently, Bachang is the name of an area, not a street or the shop name. GPS was pretty useless in such situation.

And so I S.O.S.ed my Malacca friend – YHsin.

It was past 1pm already and he was still sleeping -_-“

The hungry us then decided to go for the famous chicken rice ball at a shop at Jonker Street.

But before that we entered a very well furnished and decorated chicken rice ball shop and get the camera working.

SN made the funniest and biggest blunder that day. Thinking that the rice balls were as firm and compact as a fishball, she forked one rice ball and swung it around. Within the next minute, the rice ball split into two, half landed on the table while the other half flew up high and landed on the floor behind her.

Rating: 7/10

We then took a casual stroll along Jonker Street, making many pit stops along the way.

There were many interesting stuff to see. We stopped by an antique store. They had lots of cool stuff i.e. gramophone, antique furniture, antique precious stones and several pairs of very old and worn shoes. The one which caught my attention was the gramophone. The owner was quite nice cause he demo-ed and played a disc on a gramophone.

There was indeed a huge difference in the sound quality.

A water well

Another interesting stop was a very young boy hacking away a round block of gula ketuk.

Although it was a damn hot day, I actually had fun!

Rating: 8.5/10

It was 4pm by the time we were done walking. Arleen wanted to bring us to a very good cendol place but it was closed =(

We then decided to have pork satay BUT it was closed as well =(((

We ended up having crepes at Melaka Raya. I didn’t like it cause the dairy taste was too strong for my liking but the others gave two thumbs up.

Rating: 1/10 for me, probably 9/10 for the rest

Next stop – Baba Nyonya food for dinner at Nyonya Makko, Jalan Melaka Raya. We had asam pedas fish, kangkung belacan, pongpay chicken, cencaluk egg and chicken popiah. Love the pongpay chicken!

Rating: 7.5/10

Before the four of them depart from Malacca, we made a final stock up on local delicacies i.e. coconut sweets, pineapple tarts, durian sweets, etc.

We were hot, sticky, sweaty, stinky and yucky but it was a fun trip indeed. Next trip currently in planning phase!