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#MelakawithTiffin
posted : Saturday, December 24, 2016
Been doing this more often lol. Two trips in December marks the 3rd, 4th and 5th different Malaysian city I have visited this year alone.
Went on a road trip to Malacca on the first weekend of December with the colleagues! Idea of a road trip came last year when we went to JB for Adrian's wedding, took more than a year to realize hahah. Minimal planning before that, booked an AirBnB place near Jonker Walk and that's about it. People were happily banking on me the so-called local whoops to lead. Agenda thankfully was just to eat and I do know a couple of places so it was ok.
Woke up at ungodly hour of 6am on a Saturday and headed off to Queen St for express bus to JB where we would meet Adrian and his wife for breakfast before heading off to Malacca. 9 of us bundled into two cars, driven by Adrian and his wife, and headed off!
En route to JB.
Self checked in to the house and walked out for late lunch. Wanted to have Peranakan food and there's one nearby so we headed over to Nancy's Kitchen. My parents were both from Malacca and my mum's cooking had Peranakan influences so this totally reminded me of home. Thoroughly enjoyed the pongteh. Everybody else thought the food was so so.
  
AirBnB place has a Peranakan theme. Big enough but we didn't spend too much time in.
Headed straight to Jonker Walk next! Next food item on the agenda is chicken rice balls, ideally I wanted to try Chung Wah to see what's the big deal (family members have been going other places for less commercialized yet good ones but I can't remember the place) but queue was still there despite not being meal times and the principle of queue = no good was brought up. So we ended up at Famosa which is even worse, but priority was just to get it over and done with =.= At least the chicken wasn't too bad.
Popped by to get an iconic photo first.
Only food photo I have from the first day.
From the VR game which was surprisingly good.
Congregated at about 8pm, went back to freshen up before heading out in one car to Ong Kim Wee for supper! Literally have been looking forward to satay celup since we started talking about Malacca and it didn't disappoint, and was well received. Was thinking they would prefer to go Capitol instead (then I can pop by to say hi to ah ma) but as usual, prefer places without queue. And luckily for us we went at a time when it is too late for dinner and too early for supper so there wasn't any queue. Didn't eat as much as usual though! Was quite full from earlier exertions hahah. An impromptu drinking session to end off the night.
BKT brunch.
Nadeje. So-called better than Lady M.
One with the entire group
Hokkien Mee which was really good. So lard-y. Hahah.
Not sure what's up with that particular weekend but the queue at JB CIQ was horrendous. Bus queue was horrendous. We ended up walking across Causeway, a first for all. 
We completed the walk!
All in all, a couple of days well spent with the people I see on a daily basis. Though maybe I have to give another road trip a second thought.
Maybe I'll make the KL leg a separate post.....
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