The long weekend is over! I ended it off with a trip to Malacca and was back only yesterday afternoon. It’s been a few years since I’ve last stepped foot in Malacca. In fact, the trip was quite impromptu and we drove in without booking any hotel.

The haze in Malaysia was horrible! The nice scenery along the road trip and even the sunlight was totally blocked!

Obviously,the first thing we did was to book a hotel room!

We ended up in Mahkota Hotel. To be precise, the rooms are more like apartments rather than hotel rooms. We’ve got ourselves an apartment with 1 living room, 1 balcony and 2 bedrooms with toilets attached

 

If you ask me, I would honestly think that it’s not a really good experience for me because it seemed like their housekeeping were not doing their job (Or perhaps I’m just comparing it with the Five-stars Berjaya Times Square hotel which I’ve stayed in KL!). And it was super inconvenient, there was simply no traffic light for us to cross to the other street. We have to JAYWALK around super smelly drains. Seemed like the traffic in Malacca is so pedestrian-unfriendly!

The floor in the apartment has got some unknown stains that totally turned me off..and this is just PART of the stains

As the oldest capital city in the state of Malaysia with the long remarkable history of European colonization, it is definitely a MUST for tourists to visit its cultural heritage of historical buildings and monuments.

They sort of reminded me of our Sentosa Fort Siloso. Of course our cannon display is bigger. hehe~

And the famous not-to-be-missed Christ Church, Melaka

Other attractions surrounding Christ Church, Melaka

Their rickshaws are so much more havoc than ours! haha Heavily decorated with bombarding techno music lor!

Besides the cultural heritage, shopping centres are indispensable assets for any tourist attraction. There are quite a number of MEGA MALLS, namely JUSCO, Mahkota Parade, and etc, to let you shop till you drop! But honestly, the sales weren’t that much enticing because the prices are almost similar to that in Singapore.

Is it that all hotels’ breakfast buffet in Malaysia are the same? Exactly like that one I had in KL!

We didn’t explore much because we had to return to Singapore earlier ‘cause I had to rush back for my buddies’ birthday and most importantly to avoid the crazy traffic jams at night as well.

So after we checked out from the hotel on Monday morning, we headed to Jonker Walk before ending off our Malacca getaway.

Jonker Walk (a.k.a. 鸡场街文化坊). The street that is famous for its antique goods. It’s like our Chinatown with a long stretch of shop houses selling various souvenirs, antiques, collectibles and etc.

A nice place for photography as well 

Check out the Geographer’s Cafe in Jonker Walk… It was the cafe that Sammi Cheng and Richie Ren Xian Qi filmed

夏日的麼麼茶 (Summer Holiday)

Last but not least, it is also a MUST to try out the local delights such as the famous Malacca’s Chin-Cha-Lok chilli and the Chicken Rice Balls!

There are so many Chicken Rice Ball stalls there…But I think this one should be the more famous one.

BUT!!! We went to try the other stall located further down…HOE KEE or something. Totally NOT NICE. The chicken meat machiam from some old chicken lor. I bite until jaw also SORE and the chicken rice balls..just don’t have that kind of fragrance that chicken rice should have. =(

So next time should try the one above instead.

In the nutshell, Malacca is about FOOD, SHOP, CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE!

There will be another long weekend in September, what’s next?!!! MACAU? HONG KONG? OR TAIPEI?