Historical Malacca Trip

Over the last weekend, I made trip down to the historical city of Malacca for my niece's wedding. Along the PLUS Highway heading south, I noticed a lorry with its laden goods (I think it was long pieces of woods) has dropped almost the whole batch on the highway on the oppposite lane.

Phew! Good thing not on my side of the traffic.

This resulted in a terrible traffic standstill. I reckoned it was more than 3km long as the highway operator was cleaning the goods on the highway.

Stayed at a seaside bungalow owned by a foreign bank. Somehow kept forgetting to take the frontage photo of the bungalow. It has 8 rooms, 2 living halls, a children's pool and a slightly bigger pool for adults or older kids.

I didn't swim as one plunge or one kick in the pool would end up at the other end.
Since the family members are excited about the trip with lots of energy left after the road journey, we made our way to Jonker Street, the place where you could traditional stuff, local food delicacies and olden days buildings.

The place has been decorated with red lanterns in view of the forthcoming Chinese New Year which will fall on 7 Feb 2008.









Found this shop selling clogs that has various sizes.
Besides the well-known Hollandish clogs, this businessowner made his clogs extraordinaire.

This is the Durian Cendol - a must try dessert when you are in Malacca.
This was one of my food, the Roti John sandwich with Otak fried with eggs. Slurp!

Continued our walk and bought some traditional local delicacies for munching back home.
Seen this before but can't remember its name.

In the evening, we were early at the restaurant and the ladies got the reception area ready.

Malacca people do come early for the wedding dinner. Just look at the bright daylight outside the restaurant. By 7.30pm, all the tables were filled.

Not like Kuala Lumpur ("KL") where people generally have no manners or time concious during wedding dinner . Supposedly to start at 7.30pm but KL folks would still be making their way into the restaurant at 8.30pm. Would say that these kind of people have no ethics in life.

Happy for this young couple. Either they walked too fast or the person manning the lighting was sleeping.

Wondering where he was aiming the light at.
Tags: Wedding Dinner, Malacca, Clogs, Durian Cendol, Roti John, PLUS Highway, Chinese New Year, Jonker Street