Since its around 10.30 when we get ourselves ready, its almost time for another 'Brunch' session. Sunny took us to have a meal of Melaka's famous Chicken Rice Ball. Each of us had 5 rice balls, which Sunny suggest is equivalent to one bowl of rice (well, dunno why, eating rice balls seem to be less filling than a bowl of rice, maybe psychological illusion effects?XD). The texture of the rice ball is nice and the overall taste was good. The chicken was normal but the main focus lies within the rice ball. The time we reached the shop which is situated in the end of the Jonker Street, the crowd has started to built up. Eventually, scene of crowd lining outside the shop is inevitable......
After the meal, its time to explore the landmark of Melaka: the Red House aka Rumah Belanda! On the way to the structure, went over to some excavation sites with ancient city walls, no wonder Melaka ia known as the Historical City. Then saw a lot of familiar tricycles with flowery designs, its amazing some travel along with rap kinda music or famous MJ beats! After the red house visit and a few cam whore session, its time to move on to the St. Paul Institute, which is located in the tip of a hill. There located gravestones of various former Dutch, Portuguese and British's residents in Melaka. Since the gravestones are craved in Latin, its kinda amazing when you touched upon them, it has a very realistic historical feel as if they are just made yesterday. Moving down later, we got ourselves in the infamous remains of the A-Famosa wall.
After all those, went for cendol session. This time, upon Sunny's recommedation, we try another stall of cendol in the Jonker Street. The shop is acctually another seller of chicken rice balls, but additionally they also sell cendol. Out of a rating of 5, I would give 4 marks for it! =)
We're once again ahead of schedule which Sunny has planned. So he decided to bring us on a car tour around Melaka. We went along to see along landmarks such as the Eye on Malaysia, Dataran Pahlawan, the Airport and also the AEON supermarket.....however, one of us is not paying too much attention to the tour----the person who said "maybe" when we asked did we go to the airport ( you know who you are....XD)
Evening time, went to the Capitol Satay, wanted to have steamboat with satay sauce being the 'sup', but eventually switching to another shop after the former close down on the particular day (no idea why). First time eating such stuff, but it was very interesting upon tasting it. The food such as prawn, fish balls, chicken meat and other usual steamboat stuff was served in sticks, and they are soaked into the bath of satay sauce before being eaten. A man had to constantly come and stir the pot in which the peanuts of the satay sauce have condensed down (haiz, so mafan!) But I will particularly rate the combination of 'Yao Char Guai" with Satay sauce the highest among all.
After the meal, went to the Portuguese Settlement which is situated near the sea. When I first got off the car and walk towards the small jetty area, I still remember a man, a restaurant owner keep on recommmeding his restaurants good food. "If you're hungry sir, come drop by our restaurant there, we serve good food and most importantly it has a family style of cooking" the man said sincerely. Gotta check out his food in the future! We relaxed ourselves by enjoying the sea breeze and the waves near the small jetty which keeps on giving out squeeking sounds here and then....
Late in the night, after a quick bath by everyone at Sunny's house, its time for 'Yum Cha' session. Sunny tried to invite a few of his friends to a mamak stall and introduce them to us (at the same time, giving SM some partner choices =P) Unfortunenately, other than the introduction part, the rest of the 'yum cha' session went by as if 2 different gangs of friends are meeting up instead of blending together....(sad case for Sunny who is the centreman among the 2 groups)
Later returing to Sunny's house, the others still have games of UNO while I opt to sleep =)
Quote of the day,
D: you think I dun have the card?!
(card thown)
D: Ya, I dun have the card.......
ps: Thank you SM and ZS for the photos!
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