Day 1: Birthday in Malacca, whee~

My goodness, I cant remember the last time I've had the time to sit down leisurely and think of what to blog about... Life recently has been a hectic cycle of work work work, then shut down and rest... XD Finally can get down to reminiscing abt my food hunting trip to Malacca during my birthday way back in December last year... *.*

Began the trip by picking LiL from her place in the morning then zooming to Malacca where we were to meet my mum and my ex-neighbour~

Our first stop: Atlantic 1 Cafe for nyonya food :D

I keep wanting to call it Atlantic Point, the place i stayed in while in Liverpool @.@~ arriving there at 11am, we were the first customers and had to wait a little while before they opened completely.. Amazingly, by 11.30am the place was crowded already, i guess its a stop for many tour operators...

Less talk and more food? Here goes:-

Appetizer, fish fritters and sambal sauce, simply yummy~!

The restaurant's famous pineapple rice~

the rice that emits the nicest smell ever--pandan rice!! :P

Braised Tofu

cant remember the exact name, but its kind of like dry curry chicken~

sambal sotong :):) with petai!

nyonya style fish~

lady's fingers with mashed chilies, yums~

it would be an understatement to say the food tasted good.. the 7 of us actually finished rice for 8 ppl and polished all the plates :):):) i highly recommend this place~!

with my good friend's boyfriend ^^

and we caught a waitress to help us take a group photo.. heeheehee~ the funny thing was tat she tot we wanted to take a pic of her and started to pose when we handed her the camera.. @.@~

After checking into CK Hotel, the budget hotel we were to spend the night in, we continued our trip to Jonker Walk. Malacca has gotten more and more jammed up.. it was soooo difficult for us to find a parking spot :S Since it was high noon, it was also super duper hot walking around the place.. Couldnt wait to have anything that was icy cold~

joining the long queue outside Jonker88, seems that everyone who visits Malacca has to come here.. to the point that it has become too touristy and over hyped.. :( i remember it used to be quite quaint the first time i came cos of the antique decor..

Cendol and ice kacang.. it was a welcome treat after the heat outside.. we managed to grab a tiny table after hovering ard the ppl still eating for quite awhile... i dunno whether its a usual occurrence, but i felt the gula melaka tasted bitter that day :( i've had better cendol elsewhere lor, minus the long wait and the ppl staring at you eating so tat they could grab yr table as soon as you leave...

failed picture O.o...

Better :)

must buy thing in Malacca--pineapple tarts!! :)

spotted these two ppl shooting a foodie show in Jonker Street, any idea who they are?? i vaguely remember seeing the girl in 美食大三通 once i think.. hmm..

apparently these are brushes for scouring stuff.. cant imagine myself using one lor. they dont look tat clean themselves, how to clean things?

while we were walking along one of the streets minding our own business, a girl appeared offering ppl free drinks, we looked ard and saw a whole truck full of Seasons drinks being given away for free.. turns out they were new flavours of iced tea from seasons, free new products who doesnt want?! :P very yummy apple tea and peach tea!

with mummy and her bandaged finger, a week after it got squashed by the main door at the place where i stay :S:S

It was late afternoon when we left Jonker Street, without even pausing to rest, we were off to our next makan destination, the Malacca Portuguese Settlement~ and once again we arrived too early for dinner.. luckily there was a very nice pier there which kept us occupied for quite awhile :)

damn cute!

the guys/ drivers~

us girls/ backseat drivers/ bosses :):)

my 38 guy :* I passed my camera to him for awhile and here's what he ended up doing-

*eye roll*

US :):)

trying to reenact a scene we saw on the other end of the pier... epic fail cos of my sheepish expression @.@~

Group pic :D

got 2 sun wu kongs?? lol...

with the 2 aunties who were lazy to move away from their bench :P

free advertising for the portuguese settlement museum, hehe..

All too soon, it was time for dinner.. we chose stall no. 8 called Big Ben i think.. many of the stall owners came and tried to persuade us to patronise their stalls, but personally i prefer less attention.. :)

our portuguese grilled fish with a bite taken out of it cos auntie was too hungry to wait for us to take pics.. lol...

sweet and spicy crabby crab, loved this dish!

omelette~

butter chicken for the guy who refuses to eat seafood.. XD

Spiced brinjal :)

yummy vege with lots of juicy onions.. i likey~

and of course, bottomless rice!! whee~

had to send the 2 aunties to the bus station for them to catch the bus back at 7 something that evening..

We actually had 4 meals that day, but since the last one was supper, i think i'll put it under day 2, hehehhe :P:P a very very satisfying day one full of fun and food and friends ^^V