Easter in Malacca

I was in the city of Malacca over the Easter long weekend. Malacca was awarded as Unesco Heritage site recently and I’m quite proud of it as I can see some improvement and development around in Malacca now. Many of us took the opportunities to travel north and as expected I was expecting long jam at the causeway but I never expect I will be caught for 3.5 @$%# hours! Zach was behaving good considering stuck in the jam and a little mishap happen on him which he had a cut on his last finger. Skin were dangling out and we did not notice until much much later to our horror. He was brawling and crying his eyes out and we were thinking that he’s just sick and tired of the jam :p.

9 of us depart on Friday morning and the rest, 5 of them join us on Saturday afternoon. We reached Malacca town around 1.30pm and went straight to Century Mahkota Hotel to check in. It was raining heavily and we decided to have our lunch at the hotel café. I didn’t manage to take any photos here as too tired and hungry. I had Baked Portugese fish and MH had the Portugese fried rice. The rest ordered ayam percik, char kuay teow, wan tan Hor and spaghetti. Most of the dishes turn out well. Even the complimentary bun tasted good and soft with some hint of cinnamon and orange peel. I can tell they were feshly baked from the kitchen.

When the rain stops, we drove to the town area for chendol at 88 Jonker. We stopped by at San Su Gong the newly open shop at Jonker st. We bought some snacks and the concentrated Liquorice plum juice is very freshing. A must try. They do give out samples to try and the hot weather does play a part to psycho us to buy. The location is good and they also portion out a dining area for shoppers who need to rest their legs. I notice there may some future expansion above the shop as they did renovate it quite nicely. The weather is burning hot and we were almost to the brink of roast pig. The queue at 88 Jonker is horrendously long and we decided to check out the Donald & Lily corner’s chendol stall. It was closed and we decided to go back hotel for chill out at the pool. The children had fun and I’m quite pleased with the kiddy pool having 2 slides, an adult pool, 1 jacuzzi and a wading pool for the kids. There’s another pool near to the hotel lobby which somehow we were not attracted to go over. I guess the landscape of the pool does make a major role here.

When dusk falls, we headed for satay celup at Ban Lee Siang. This is another rival to Capitol satay (heard it was the originator) but this place is always with long Q and somehow it’s perpetually hot. Ban Lee Siang somehow has a little breeze but still sauna hot. Satay celup is famous in Malacca. I don’t remember other states having this. I guess we had closed to about 120 sticks for 7 of us and the bill came to RM81 include drinks. Fairly reasonable.

Next, will be Day 2 with more coming food hunt!