A Short Trip to Melaka

My trip to KL landed me on another short trip to Melaka, the historical landmark of Malaysia. It was a jalan-jalan cari makan trip with Kin Fai's friends (a bunch of 9 hungry ghosts). I was among the excited hungry ghost because I never been to Melaka before and I just can't wait to see the place with famous historical landmarks such as the A Famosa, churches, delicious baba and nyonya food, eager to see what the small town has to offer.

Journey was short but not as breezy as we thought, because of the festive season, cars were moving bumper to bumper even in highway. It took us 2 hours to arrive (usually it's just 1.5 hours) and by the time we arrive, we were literally transformed into hungry ghost because it was already 1pm. Melaka was already crowded with so many people. I was surprised to see that Melaka is actually quite a small town and the famous landmark were actually very near to each others, the Stadhuy Building, Melaka museum (much to Kin Fai's dismay, it was closed), Fort A Famosa, St. Paul Church, Jonker Street and even the shopping mall (Mahkota Parade and the brand new Pahlawan Squares) all within walking distance.

We don't care much bout sight seeing first because we had to fill up our growling stomachs. We head straight up to the oh-so-very famous Chicken Ball Rice.

Chicken Ball Rice at Kedai Kopi Chung Wah.

You won't miss the location of this shop because you will see a line of crowd waiting for table and seats outside the shop. That's not something you'll get to see everyday, not even at the famous chicken bean sprout (nga choi kai) shop in Ipoh. Is the food worth the 30 minutes-under-the -sun wait? Yes and no, I would say.

How adorable but only 5 balls per plate.

Actually the chicken rice is just Hainanese chicken rice that we can get at Kedai Kopi Rasa Sayang at Ipoh. But the ball-ball rice is some special, out-of-the-box, twisted way to eat our daily grain. I liked the rice more than the chicken itself, which I didn't even bother to take any picture of, due to the chef's unprofessional way of cutting the chicken, which he just simply smashed the meat and bones into pieces. We ordered 30 more ball-balls and just eat the ball-balls on its own.

But still, onigiri is cuter.

Very colourful trishaws were all around the town, some with very hip contemporary music being played.


Stadhuy's Building.

At St.Paul's Church. Or was it St.Peter? I'm sorry, thousand apologies to you holy saints.

Nothing much to look at in the historical building but historical monuments.

Fort A Famosa is smaller than I thought.

After spending 1 hour at Pahlawan Squares, we went out to hunt for food again, this time is satay celup. The place were, as expected, crowded and we had to wait awhile before there's table and seats for us. Steamboat style but all the food were to dip and cook in the satay gravy. I still prefer the conventional lok-lok especially the one located at Ipoh Garden South, although the food on skewer is only cooked in hot boiling water but the satay gravy they served is super great delicious. And the century egg is OMG OMG OMG delicious @_@ Well I guess satay celup is just not my style.

And of course, we did not miss any Baba and Nyonya food. We tried itik tim, otak otak (different from our usual one), ayam poh teng, and assam prawn. Delicious but not magical enough to charm this Ipoh-born tongue.

Satay celup.

Jonker Street.

Jonker Street was even more crowded than Chiang Mai's night bazaar. But things were a tad too expensive, equivalent to shopping mall standards (RM9.90 for a cute character key-chain). Too bad that we already had too much of food, if not, I would really want to try those street hawker food along the Jonker Street. I still crave for the fried lobak kueh that I did not try. >_< style="text-align: center;">Melaka is also famous for its pineapple tart. It's the best food so far. Runner up will be the ball-ball rice (can't say Chicken Ball Rice because the chicken is not that good).

I regretted that I only bought one box of tarts. >_<>

Festive season in KL. KL roads suddenly seems wider than usual.

Meal at Manhattan Fish Market.

My KL trip is always more towards food trip rather than visiting trip. I gained a few kilos every time I come back from KL. >_<

Eyes Of Malaysia

Going to KL has been a routine for me. I'm beginning to get bored with all the shopping complex dates, so this time we must try out the oh-so-famous but actually-not-that-special ferries wheel of Malaysia. This weekend will be a jimui's date because I'm meeting up Yokie and Debbie and the limelight here was on Yokie's shining new boyfriend. We met up and had lunch at KLCC. I wanted to go visit Teddy Beh's aquarium or underwater thing but no one is interested. So we just had a chatty and gossipy lunch and then shop around KLCC.

But we no longer shop/walk in a group, each of us was with a date, so we walk our separate way and meet up again for The Eyes ride. Well, I guess it's a couple thing, couples don't shop in a group. Kinda miss the girls-only shopping frenzy we always had in the good old days.

The three of us.
Erm, but where's Yokie's new beau? He's the photographer behind this beautiful picture.

GT is a great amateur photographer. You guys should take a look at the mesmerizing pictures he took with his great DSLR camera and a RM**k lens(price deleted due to reader's complain..haha). Don't pray-pray.

KL's jam-packed traffic.

I couldn't help cam-whoring in the midst of traffic jam.

The Eyes of Malaysia. Definitely not the tallest eyes but good enough a thrill ride for me.

Sunset and The Eyes.

The Eyes at night.

The new couple seems to enjoy each other company more than the ride or scenery. And the old couple (me and Fai) were trying to keep our cool when the car stopped at the peak and swing in momentum. Ok, I was the one who tried not to freak out and I did not really freak out. And RM15 was a tad bit expensive for a less than 20 minutes ride. But at least I live through it to tell that I did get onto the Eyes of Malaysia (hey, some of my colleagues even tried The Eyes of London and said it was nothing special, hish...those lucky bastards).


P/S : Except the first picture of the three bombshells, the rest of the shots were taken by my lovely pink handphone. Cool eh. I bet you can't tell. A cam-princess (must not overuse word 'whore') doesn't need a RM**k lens (cannot publish price of lens....erm, for some reasons that I'm not really sure of) for a good shot. hehe.

Happy 50th Birthday Malaysia

I'm a little occupied lately (partly due to travelling Ipoh-KL), so I will not blog about my Chiang Mai trips yet because it will be hell loads of pictures.

So here's how I celebrated Malaysia's 50th birthday.

We(with KF's of friends) went to had Japanese buffet dinner (supper to be more precise) at Jogoya. There were 12 peoples (hungry giants) but I don't feel too hungry perhaps from the tiring traveling and strolling along Bintang Walk for 4 hours. I'm not alone, KF's friends were nice enough to spend time with me while waiting for the buffet at 9.30pm. We had to hang out at Dome at Lot 10 and watched a really boring Nicole Kidman's new movie at Time Square to kill time. I was only able to meet up with my bf at Jogoya.

And guess who we saw at Jogoya? What an coincidence. KF and friends rush over to take photos with Mr. Rexy.

What a crowd....

We did not stay long in the crowd because a huge crowd like this can be very dangerous.

Haha...guess what is this. This is one of the cooking tool we use while having my dinner at Sunway. Nope, it's not steamboat.

And with sauce. Yummy....

It's actually steam Bar B Q. Haha...how healthy. :) And the bacons were darn good.

Night at Putrajaya with fireworks.

We went all the way to Putrajaya to catch just a few minutes of fireworks. I thought it will go on for at least 15mins to 30mins since it was an international firework competition. But it's ok, we enjoyed the view at Putrajaya a lot, it was a remarkably beautiful place, like a total different country.

Love and miss you.

Ok, I know this entry is a bit out of place here and there....but I wrote this in less than 30mins. Not bad lar....haha.

Nite~~

First Day in Bali

Ok. I know I took a long time to blog about my Bali trip, but there were too many pictures from two cameras and I want to one-shot wrote about the 4 days activities of my trip.

Day 1 : 15/June/2007
Legian,Kuta

I'd been waitng, countdowning to this day....the day I'm going to Bali, Indonesia.

Bali, Indonesia.

Everyone is a millionaire in Indonesia.
Rp10,000 = RM4.15

Taking YoYo bus to LCCT airport.

Ok, so this is my birthday lunch? WTF!!!!!

Flying off to Denpasar.

Is this our plane?

Taking off.....

On the plane. Yayy...I'm so anxious. Can't wait can't wait. 3 hours was too darn long.

We arrived, finally. And took a cab to our hotel, Balisani Padma at Legian.

Checked in and had our welcome drink.

Our room.

After settled down everything in our hotel room and a nice warm bath, we walk a short distance out to Legian street for our late dinner (9pm already). Lots of other hotels nearby and other foreigners walking around. About 5 mins walk, we saw a nice restaurant, La Monde.

Cheers! (Yes, it's welcome drink again)

What do they have here?

Yummy~~

Bali-style rice. Rice wearing hat? That's cute.

Beef steak for me. This was soooooooooooo delicious. And the price was darn cheap too. Rp40,000 for a steak that tasted so good.

Tee-hee

That's cool. ATM machine in a mini mart. Bali is really high-tech.

Not much on the first day because it was already quite late. So we went to sleep early and will explore Bali for the following 3 days.