Once upon a time on Merdeka Day, 7 patriotic psychotic girls decided to go on a road trip to one of Malaysia's world heritage city — Malacca. They persisted on going despite warnings and signs of the evil balik kampung traffic.
The mini blue and red car started their journey early in the morning in hope that they will beat the evil traffic jam. In case you can't tell from the picture, yours truly was the Queen of Backseat in the blue car *muahahahaha*
The drive to Malacca was a rather perilous one with 'Faithful' Jeanette and SS Veronica driving even though the evil traffic jam did not show itself. Thankfully we reached Malacca in one piece *phew* And it was time to let the FPS (Food Positioning System) do its job since none of us are local XD
Our first destination was Donald & Lily the Nyonya restaurant. I thought I was in for a gastronomic treat since it was said to offer the best, but the mee siam, nyonya laksa and ayam pongteh did not even meet my basic requirement. No doubt just a tourist caterer.
For dessert, we headed to
Jonker88 for
cendol. I got the Eight Precious Cendol with everything in it *muahahahaha* I totally love the thick
gula melaka but it sort of covered the taste of the coconut milk. I also didn't like the nutmeg and this other thing they put in it because it made the
cendol taste a bit weird =S All that said, it was so much better than what we had over at Donald & Lily even though it was yet another tourist caterer. The shop's decor was also much nicer, maybe because of the lighting and the fact that they actually bother cleaning the decors once in a while.
The time came to walk around and camwhore, and to digest a little before we continue on our mission to eat =P We actually ended up walking past this one particular street like three or four times *LOL*
Only the masters of camwhores can think of doing it in front of the public toilet.
The day when the Queen of Backseat was also crowned the Queen of Imitation.
The rest camwhoring in the pretty Sweet Summer Cottage Handmade Soap shop...
...while I went to sniff every possible soap I can find in the shop *LOL*
I got the chamomile and chrysanthemum one in the end because the auntie at the shop was nice enough to sell me and Veronica the supposedly not-for-sale chrysanthemum soap ^_^
Sun Mei: *wei* You guys want 鸡蛋冰 or not?
Audrey and I: Huh? What 鸡蛋冰? Like egg-flavored ice?? =S
Sun Mei: No lar, like ice in the shape of an egg.
Audrey and I: *ohh~* XD
All 7 in the picture.
The Queen of Camwhore got skills!
Since the FPS was meant for locating food, we had a hard time navigating it to make it show us the way to where the Malacca Maritime Museum was on the other side of the river because we didn't know the road's name or what it was called at that time. It wasn't like we wanted to visit the museum, someone (I think it was Jeanette or maybe it was Sun Mei??) just thought it was a nice place to camwhore XD
We found our way there in the end by searching for Stadthuys assuming the museum would be somewhere nearby. I didn't know the red building was called Statdhuys because I've always thought that whole place is called A Famosa, which is actually a totally different place -_-'' I know my history/geography just rocks! XD
After trying so hard to find the way there and found parking, we decided not to go down because everyone was too hungry to walk in the hot sun. All of us skipped lunch because for some unexplained reason, nobody wanted to eat the chicken rice ball Malacca is known for *LOL*
This became our lunch instead ^_^
Thanks to Veronica and her awesome sense of direction, we managed to find the Nadeje Patisserie Cafe at Plaza Mahkota since the one shown by the FPS was in Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall and there were no more parking when we got there. For a moment I thought I was really not going to get my mille crêpe that I've been longing for since I found out about their existence =3
We got 7 different mille crêpes: chocolate, original, cheese (voted the most jelak of them all), mango yoghurt, berry-berry strawberry, double chocolate and coffee (all in order of my preference). The double chocolate really wasn't that nice, I was totally surprised at the difference between the chocolate and the double chocolate mille crêpe. It should actually be ranked the last along with the coffee one, but I'm just being a little bias =P Nontheless, I was totally in heaven~ I was stuffed so full of mille crêpe in the end because the rest got jelak after only halfway through. I really tried my best, but I could only finish off the chocolate, original, cheese and mango yoghurt (my top four preference ^_^). I would have finished off the berry-berry strawberry as well if my stomach didn't feel like it was going to burst >_<
Since we had Ah-Ma (阿妈) Jaime along with us, we were dragged to Tan Kim Hock (陈金福) to do some shopping. It is such an Ah-Ma thing to do =.= but I got to buy the satay shrimps that I haven't had for ages so I guess I shouldn't complain and be grateful to our lovely Ah-Ma =)
We stopped by Seremban on the way back to buy siew pao (烧包). We didn't know which shop was the famous one, so we randomly picked one of the shop from the FPS list XD It turned out to be not bad. Kudos to the FPS *LOL*
To substitute the satay celup that we didn't get to eat in Malacca (I was actually a bit disappointed because I've never tried it before), we had Kajang satay instead at Sate Kajang Haji Samuri. It was the biggest satay shop I've ever been to, like SERIOUSLY HUGE! The shop area was already really BIG and they had TWO FLOORS!!! Their satay was quite nice I guess, and their peanut sauce was good too. I love how they have the chili thing to add to the peanut sauce as not all satay shops have them. Another thing I really like about the place is that they have RABBIT SATAY!! ^_^ I haven't had rabbit satay since Satay Zul in Kuantan, and that was like a REALLY REALLY long time ago. I wanted to order their venison satay as well, but they ran out, so I only got the rabbit one *sigh*
I was the only one who ate the rabbit satay, hence was labelled the 'Rabbit Killer' -_-''
A big THANK YOU to all the drivers that day. I am so glad I didn't have to drive *hehe* Even Sun Mei drove, and Evie would have been one of the drivers as well if Veronica wasn't so paranoid about her being drunk the night before -_-'' Must also thank Ah-Ma's friend (whoever s/he is) for the FPS =)
Last but not least, in fact the most important! Thank you Ah-Ma Jaime and Sunny Sun Mei for always bringing your camera everywhere we go =) All photos above are taken by either one of their cameras.
