Brought parents, Shan, Mui n Bert, Hub n kids to Malacca.
This is my 3rd trip back within a year, yup, tats how much I enjoyed n love Malacca and everytime I went back, it always always surprises me with new things, new places, new eateries! Fav place on earth in my tour book now becos its near enuf for a short break n its still overseas!
No pics in my blog cos I ve not taken them fr my sisters n I was too lazy to take any pics since I ve so many camera women around namely Shan, Mui n Ting. 
Will post them in my facebook n mayb some here after I got the pics fr my camwomen.
So anyway, I woke up at 430am becos I nee kopi! N then I woke the kids up. Intially thought I will ve problem waking Joel up but no, he jumped up immediately n was hyper-excited! Next to wake, hubi, Ting n Jaden – who woke n high-5 the bro then fell back to slumberland again. Super funny! I had to carry him to the car n by then he was 50% awoke. Drank his milk in the car but due to his excitement, he didnt finished it especially when we reached my father’s blk!
Bert and us arrived at the same time! Park at the sheltered and folks came down. Managed to load everything into Bert’s car, mum really brought alot of things for 大舅, got raw chickenwings somemore which left me very puzzled but I understand y later.
Almost left without Shan! Super funny! Cos pa told her to sit my car so she start walking towards my car. But I told them tat 1 can followed me after customs. So a bit of miscomm n resulted Shan running back to Bert’s car, lucky he ve not drove off yet! LOL.
N then Hubi missed a turn n got us lost..in spore while going to Tuas customs. We stopped in a ulu place n since its still 6 plus, it was kinda of creepy n we (gal n me) a bit creep out lah now being the 7th mth n tat! N then Bert has to “waltz” by our car window to talk to hubi..almost give me a heart attack! Had a gd laugh! Finally on the way again n this time correct path!
Smooth crossing through Tuas customs, very lucky as I was expecting jam. Went to Gelang Patah for breakfast. Ordered the mixed noodles but uncle now dun add in abalone n oysters liao. Maybe hubi duno how to order, o well. It’s still good though, something hot n soupy to warm our tummies.
After tat we head straight to 大舅house which was along the way before we hit Malacca. We couldnt find his address in GPS so had to follow Bert’s car while mum gave directions to him n mui gave direction to us via walkie talkie. Shan was in my car by then. She was very relieved to switch over as mum was bombarding her about Ivan when they were in the same car earlier! lol
Reached 大舅house around 930 or so. His house was way in after a smallish town. I wondered how they get their dailies, now I understand why mum bought chkwings for them. It has being many years since I saw 大舅 n he has aged alot n blind in both eyes now due to a accident. 大舅母 n their daughter-inlaw are very kind. Even though their own durian trees are barren, they bought some from the durian stalls just outside their house. We drove past the stalls n were ogling at the durains somemore! lol! The durains were shiok!
Aftertat we all took a walk thru their plantations. I was not very impressed. In my eyes I only saw dirt n mozzies and wori whether I will dirty my pedro sandals. I m a 100% city girl! I appreciate nature jus not with me in the pic. But the 4boys enjoyed! End up Bert came back to the house with a pocket full of limes n a bunch of bananas. But poor little JJ was bitten by the hungry mozzies quite badly. In fact his left eye was swollen on the 2nd day!N his little fat fingers n legs were not spare either. Thank goodness I bought Zytec with me, at least it help to relief some of the itches.
Around 11, we left for Malacca with enuf fruits to set up a stall n sell by rd side if ever we ran out of ringgit. We checked into Fenix Inn first. Only my room was ready even though I requested for early check-in. After a short toilet break n refreshed, we set off to have lunch – Yong Tau Hoo at Federal Ah Cheng Yong Tau Foo located in Jalan Bukit Melaka.
When we reached there at 1.30pm or so, they ran out of most of their items so we took what they had remaining n waited 30 mins for lunch. It was NOT very impressive. I find them so so only. Noodles was nice though. I guess I shouldnt compared them to spore’s since both had different cooking style.
Verdict : Must come early if you want to try but can give it a miss if ve better choice/alternative food.
Aftertat we went back to the hotel to collect balance room keys and arranged to meet up at 5pm to go Jonker Walk. BUT i found myself lockout of my room. Faulty card keys, I ran up n down twice n the 3rd time 1 of the staffs came back with me n still cant opened the door!He went back to get another new keys for us n opened our rm door with a master key. Finally everyone can get their belongings n went bak to their room to rest.
Went to Jonker Walk. Jaden fell asleep! So hub n me took turns to carry him. We were early so we had a chance to see the street transform into pasar malem n tey only ve it on Fri to Sunday. All the cars were not allowed to park after 5pm there so we saw cars slowly filtered out by 6pm. Jonker as usual was jam with tourists. The last time I came quite late after a dinner so I had no chance to try out the street food. This time, I tried the dimsums – 3 for RM1.80 n 6 for RM3! The hot steaming dimsums were on displayed n u jus take a small plastic bag n satay stick n take wat u like, after tat u paid the auntie. Delicious!
Shan, Mui n Bert had fun shopping in the tiny clothes shops littering Jonker Walk. Mum n pa just walk around amusing themselves with sight-seeing. The 2 big kiddos bought little trinkets like key chains n other cute things tat caught their eyes. Later I brought all of them to Jonker’s famous chendol shop to try n mum loved it! She say the gula-melaka is nice on the chendol unlike spore where tey add milk instead.
I was hunting down this Bak Gu Teh stall while walking in Jonker n at last have to give up. Hubi insist on driving n using his trusty GPS, so we all trotted back to the car after walking the whole of Jonker Pasar Malem. Lucky I listened to him! Found the stall.
It was inside a old kopitiam by a road which has only 2 stalls-bak gu teh n a drink stall. Btw, they dun call it bak gu teh, they called it Bak Kee. Ordered 4 big bowls at 8RM each. 2 bowls of pure meat 瘦肉 n the other 2 mixed innards. This Bak Gu teh is a bit unusual as there is no Bak Gu or pork ribs. Instead they offer pork meat in slice pcs. Its easier to eat but it sort of deflated the taste a bit? The soup is those hokkien style – with dark soy sauce. It has a light herbal taste n smell but not overpowering nor spicy so those who do not like herbals may like this version. Maybe becos the boss dun use pork ribs, so the soup is not oily too. Free refill of soup. The boss or the assistant will go around with a tin of hot soup n just refilled at each table they stopped.
Verdict: A good n simple meal that set us back at RM36. Each indivual bowl is at RM1.50, rice RM0.50.
After dinner, we went back to Jonker as the kids want boat ride and I wanted everyone to see a different side of Malacca by boat too. Plus its cooling! But when we went to the nearest jetty (stop 7)we were told that we had to go all the way to the new jetty to purchase tickets n board. The last time I was here, we can board at any of the small jetty stops n purchase tickets on board. So we all took a leisure walk (10mins) to the new jetty. HORRORS! The q was so long n the ticketing office was not opened yet!
We gave up and start walking back to the car. But then at 1 of the jetty, we saw this boat n hubi went to enquire whether we can board it. YEH!! We can!! HA! Cut the stupid q! So we all manage to board the boat in the end. On the way back after 1 round, we ask to alight at jetty 7 as our car was park near there.
Walk back to car n saw this stall at Discovery Cafe selling 凉茶. They ve bitter/ sweet/ hot n cold version. Hubi wan the bitter one. Then Bert n Shan also wanted a packet of cold ones. OOps..we forget to mention that we wanted the sweet ones so end up…Bert n Pei nearly puke after 1 slip! N shan threw hers away even though she wanted to drink to cool down her heatiness! Hubi manage to force finish his 苦茶. It was really a bitter ending to a nice day! hahaha
Went back to the hotel n called it a day. All of us were dead tired, smelly n sleepy. It was a good first day as a tourist. Tomorrow we will be our wild selfs n do wat we were born n destined to do. SHOPPING!! More on the next blog – Malacca Part 2!
Its great to have sisters and a united one at that!