Lil Red Town.

Another trip to Melacca was made. This time with Qiannie, KimKim and ChloeDoey. BUT!!!! In the end, only KimKim turned up. Sob Sob. Something about the picture above makes me feel happy. I think its the fat-ness. Gosh its been ages since I look fat in pics. *self 5 to gaining weight*. 


It was a fine morning of a friday. I left KL with Ven only to reach Melacca a bit too early. KimKim and gang haven't arrive yet. So, we initially wanted to hunt for the TeoChew place Ven had in mind, but we walked all up and down Jalan Laksamana, but the little place was nowhere to be found. Instead, we settled for picture taking because Melacca town is beautiful.

Ven (along Jalan Laksamana, love the red pillars with chinese wordings)

Along the Melacca river. 

Since its only the two of us, we set us the camera by balancing is with handphones and camera pouches for support, hit the self timer button, and ran all the way to the picture frame before the camera goes Kaching!

As much as we would love to wait for KimKim and the gang to come down to join us for lunch, our stomachs are killing us, and screaming for attention. Alas, when we could no longer take it anymore, we sat down at ChungWah chicken rice ball shop to relieve our poor stomachs. 

Yummy as usual. I think this place needs no introduction because I have been here in my previous Melacca trip. Haha. Girls get the balls, guys get the chicken!

We ate very little. Only half a chicken for the 2 of us, and we didn't really finish all the balls either. Wanted to save stomach for the rest of the day. We took a stroll along Jonker walk to digest a little bit. And I was on a hat-hunt for the dance people as well. Hence Hat-hunting + strolling = digesting. 

Since it was very near CNY, the entire street was nicely decorated. 

And I tell you one day I'll be a super good surgeon. Because I can frigging camwhore with one hand using a DSLR. Effing heavy I tell you. But still good pictures came out of it. Loves!

Proud proud proud. Haha

So we walked and walked and walked and walked. Awh-ed and ahh-ed at the things they sell along the street. Hmm-ed and Mmm-ed at the hats all the way till we reached this little cozy place. 

I love desserts. And I love Cendol! This place serves the best cendol. Thick sticky gula melacca dripping down a slab of shredded ice. YummYumm. This place was closed the last time I was in Melacca. Hence I had altogether 2 and a half bowls of Cendol. Once durian cendol, one normal gula melacca cendol, and one mango cendol shared with Ven at night. 

Laksa is awesome too. Haha

And when I was at this little shop, guess who text me to say she's coming over. Hui Xia!!! Haven't met this girl in like ages!!! I think it's been at least 2 years or so. Because I am so super outdated with her life that I got all the facts wrong. Oops. But it so nice seeing her at last. And I think we are all gonna meet each other again someday soon. CNY round the corner. 

(btw side track, we have a gathering for breakfast on Sat , 13th Jan, morning. Contact me!)

And finally, KimKim and gang arrive!!! Fancy thing they opted for cendol upon arrival, and I was sitting there with HuiXia all along. Haha. 

KimKim!!

We walked summore on Jonker street afterwards. 

Since KimKim and gang haven't really makan-ed anything, they wanted to go chicken-rice-ball-ing after Cendol. And since me and Ven already chicken-rice-ball-ed, we didn't join them, but went on our own expedition to search for Pork Satay.

It was some Jalan somewhere, I got it off some food blog. Once you arrive they serve you cucumbers and onions with some ketupats immediately. Don't know if they charge for it, but I didnt really finish the ketupats (such a waste). The satays comes in free flow, but you needa pay for every stick you eat. But once your plate of satay is empty, they fill it up with more. Kinda like eating a lok-lok of satays. There is a choice of chicken satay, pork satay, or pork intestines. 

Verdict? I'll say its ok-ok only. Not really fantastic, but it taste a whole lot better then the normal satay stalls we all see in KL. But not the best I've eaten honestly. Haha. \

After Satay-ing, Ven took a nap in the car while I plan out our next destination. Satay celup was next. The last Satay Celup place I went was Ban Lee Hiang, which was super awesome except it'll burn your tongue because the sauce is so so so so so so so spicy.

The pathetic map I printed out using my printer from Google Map and stick them together one by one using glue. Haha

That is of course no problem to me. I can't really take spicy food, but I can still tolerate the spicy level if the food is awesome. But Ven on the other hand is never gonna savour Satay Celup and its awesome-ness if I bring him to Ban Lee Hiang. But thanks to Hui Xia who currently lives in Melacca, she showed me a place where the Satay Celup sauce is not as spicy, so my Ven can give it a try too.

Still taste awesome, but somehow I prefer the spicy-er version. Haha. So to all non-spicy takers, go to McQuek for a delightful non-spicy satay celup experience.

Hui Xia also introduced me a place to purchase yummilicious Pineapple tarts. And this place pineapple tarts is so nice its on limited edition. One group of customers are only limited to take away 2 boxes per day. 

I wanted to buy 2 boxes and Ven wanted another 2-3 boxes, but we both have to settle for one box each because the lady boss simply won't sell it to us. She says its not fair to the other customers hence one person can only bring one box away. Ouch!! 

Later at night, we tried the famous Bunga Raya Oh Chien (fried oyster).

I have to say, I am not a big Oh Chien fan, but this place Oh Chien is very yummy. The amount of starch in it is just nice, enough to make it crispy and soft, but not yucky and gooey. I think mom and sis would love this place.

That's about it for my melacca trip 2nd installment. Satay Celup still rawks my ass!!!!