Thursday, November 25, 2010

Malacca, a stylish taste of old.

I like this feeling of family even though the people involved aren't biologically connected to me as so.

And so I had my first trip to explore the historical site of Malacca, along with my 9 other coursemates, xiaopengyou (easy), sinyin, jiahui, weiting, yeekwan, cheeyan, xiaoguang, desmond and jasper.
It's one trip I enjoy, very relaxing, simple and filled with loud laughs, eyes squeezing happiness.

We searched for baba food which turns out to be nyonya food. (baba is nyonya's husband, we all conclude that lady cooks better =D)
Ole Sayang we went, reachable by walking distance from mahkota parade, keep walking straight until the end and u'll find this corner lot restaurant, painted in green.
We ordered asam pedas fish, sambal prawns, dry curry chicken, fried kangkung and salted vege soup.
Rice was served on banana leaf, in an inverted triangular, rottan, cap-like container.
The taste? Spicy swirled with a touch of sourness that woke our already hungry stomach, making us went, 'nice leh, munch munch munch, really very nice eh! Ahh, the soup, slurrrp, NICE!! I take more har.' Hahaha!
The waitress must be thinking, 'this bunch of kids must had been starved for ages liao!' =D
I won't forget the end part where everyone was too full to stuff in the remaining piece of fish.
We took 15 minutes to persuade, ok, actually is force the fish down the throats of our gentlemen.
Saviour every single bite! We aren't wasteful! Yeah!

Next, we headed to the very renown, Capitol Satay Celup.
80 cents per stick, yupyup, any stick, ranging from large prawns, shrimps, chicken meat, fishcakes, bean curd, fishballs, entangled kangkung balls, bird's egg, fried pork skin, sausages, stuffed taufu and more.

These uncooked food were lined neatly on the shelf of an open aired freezer, like those found in supermarket, with trays provided.
We waited for the attendent to pour in the thick, peanut filled mixture of satay sauce, boiled it for a few minutes and we started dipping our sticks of choice in and out.
Messy but steaming fun! =D
Not say super yummy, but it was something different, and the atmosphere of steamboating with the whole gang, worthed it I would say! (:

We wouldn't miss out malacca's chicken rice balls, served as spheres of rice.
Ah ni was true, the original shop was one that needed neither sophisticated renovations nor was it air-conditioned, instead, it just laid humbly, with the owner guarding the steel fence, limiting the number of guests based on the availability of seats and food left.
Good quality control indeed haha.

We also went river cruising, up Taming Sari, A Famosa, The Ship (static one), Muziums (lots of them), Jonker Street, biscuit hunting, souvenir shopping and cendol tasting (all kinds of flavour we tasted, me like durian! =D)

All in all, pepsi fits my feeling best, I'm 'Asking For More'.

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