Malacca Day Trip

The Starting point of our Malacca Journey The quiet river bank

It's a day out for sun tan. Lucky that Ryu bought a pair of umbrella (which cost USD200 each) for Heng and Ling's wedding gift, therefore we have the neat and nice umbrella to protect our skin for whole day. We were trying to find the selling point of the umbrella, and if we were Ryu, will we buy the umbrella. It's really no way! The expensive Umbrella, see it? Worth USD 200/each???

The Red House, at Fort A Farmosa

(Glasses advertisement?!?)
We visited museums, that I never been in, though I have been to Malacca for so many times. It's so cheap! RM 5 for 5 museums. Compared with those foreign museums, this is really CHEAP in term of price. The museums that we went in Europe are charging more than Euro 20 and above. And it is also CHEAP in term of maintenance, there is no consistency or quality of air-conditional in each room of museums, the flooring quality, the antique protection, and the description of each piece. The description of the pieces are mostly written in Malay, which is not friendly to tourists who don't read Malay. They should have charged higher in price, and use the money to do a better job. Museums' display are valuable things that not only worth RM 5.

In one of the museum, this is the traditional Malay house

This is the traditional trishaw, with two modern ladies.

Another Museum....we just love the window..haha

We then have our late lunch at The Coconut around 5pm. The cafe is in a more than hundred years old house. They serve Italian food, pizza with real wood baking method. Another impression I have there is, many mosquitoes. We were there to feed them. Then, we went to Jonker Street for night market. It's no longer special to me, as I have been there a couple of times. As usual, there were many food stalls, and craft stalls. There is also Karaoke competition, and many old folks were there showing their singing talent.

Pictures at the Coconut Cafe.

We then went for Hainannese food. The restaurant was on TV show before, Ling said. We have made reservation. Lucky we did. The old guy who works there was telling peoples who walked in that all tables are under reservation, though there were 40% fulled. Then, they walked to the next door air-conditioned Hakka restaurant. Indirectly, they drive the Hakka restaurant's business. When we left, the Hakka restaurant was fulled. The food is just okay, and they charged very below market price as well. It's obvious that Hainannese restaurant is running with their traditional pride who serve food to their neighbourhood, while Hakka restaurant boss is really a smart businessman who sell food, environment and service.

Another old building in Malacca