Malacca Day Trip (25.09.11)

I couldn’t remember how many Malacca day trips have I made throughout my life, it’s uncountable already, but I really love this place, and each time it gives me a whole new experience. This trip was made as a farewell trip to Anna, Malacca is also her hometown, so, she brought us around, visited Malacca in a “local” way.

We departed after breakfast @ Kota Damansara and reached our first destination – Huang Chang Chicken Rice Restaurant for lunch about 11.45am, look at the queue, we were so lucky because Anna’s sister was there earlier than us and she helped us to reserve a table, so, we didn’t waited very long.

Usually we, tourists only go to (know) the chicken rice ball in town, this is not in town, it’s hidden in housing area. This is the local people favourite restaurant for Hainan chicken. The chicken is very juicy, tender and smooth, the rice ball is very solid and taste nicer. We kept reminded ourselves not to over eat, in fact we should only taste it, as we will not be only taking 3 meals a day, but we couldn’t help, we just want to stuff all the chickens in.

Huang Chang Chicken Rice Restaurant:

BB 376, Taman Melaka Baru, Batu Berendam, Melaka, 75350, Tel: 06-317 0299

Right after this heavy lunch, at 1pm, we continued our journey to Tong Lok Kopitiam (near Sam Poh Well/ Sultan Well @ Bukit Cina) for our 2nd lunch - Char Kuey Teow, of course this time we are smart, we controlled by only order 1 plate for sharing… the uniqueness of this Char Kuey Teow is to eat with sweet sauce, for me, erm… I still prefer the Penang style.

We girls always say we want to go on diet, diet, diet but we fail each time when we were seduce by food… After 2 lunches, it’s exercise time! Girl best exercise – SHOPPING!!

We didn’t shop long, we shopped until 2.30pm and we reached this restaurant – Jonker 88 for their famous cendol with gula melaka syrup. You should know lady always has 2nd stomach for dessert.

When we were walking out from the restaurant @ 2.30pm, we saw a lot of people eating Pai Tee, Pai Tee is just a starter, it didn’t consider a real meal, so, we packed one and “picnic” @ Jonker Walk World Heritage Park.

We are not the only group “picnicking” @ the park!

While walking along Jonker Street, we also had a stick of fried potato twister too… (no picture because we were all busy eating).

Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! Finally we were here @ Nadeje Cafe!! It was so crowded when we were there, we waited until almost 5pm to get a table. What so special about this cafe? It serves Mille Crepe Cakes!!! Variety of them!!!

We picked 2 – Mille Crepe Malacca & Mille Crepe Berry-Berry Strawberry… yummy

Nadeje, G-23 & 25, Jln PM4, Plaza Mahkota, 75000 Melaka, Tel: 06 2838750

When we finished the cake, it’s actually almost time for dinner… but we were very very very full… so, we decided to pay a visit to our Malacca colleague, Sherry @ her husband wedding planner office. She strongly and highly recommend the red wine and the Choya that she found. I must say, she really has a very good taste, I usually can’t take a lot of wine and liquor, but I love these 2. So, girl 2nd best exercise to burn calorie – GOSSIP!!!

We were too happy gossiping and drinking until we forgot about our dinner! Since we didn’t stay a night in Malacca, we must made a move to dinner and shall depart home before too late.

For dinner, we opted for Nyonya food. So, Sherry brought us to Amy Heritage Nyonya Cuisine. Probably because we were late, 9.30pm, there were actually not a lot of people in the restaurant, we let Sherry and Anna took charge of ordering because they knew the best for us.

I didn’t actually take down the name of each dishes, but they are fish ball soup with fried fish stomach, fried fish with sambal, steamed lady finger with special chilli sauce and stewed chicken with potato and mushroom. Very simple yet very authentic.

Amy Heritage Nyonya Cuisine: 75, Jalan Melaka Raya 24, Taman Melaka Raya. Tel: 06-286 8819.

We should have stay there actually, because it’s a bit tiring for us to travel back to KL after the late dinner and reach quite late at night, when I was driving home, I was stopped by a police @ a speed trap road block too, but he was kind enough to let me go because he knows actually I was driving home, single lady driving home alone at that hour is a bit dangerous.