Day trip to Melaka

One fine Sunday, we made a day's trip to Melaka. The purpose was to check out some investments opportunities we saw at some exhibition fair.

The drive was smooth, traffic was clear as it wasn't any particular holiday season. 

We reached the Ayer Keroh exit pretty soon and went in to see many tourists attraction around that area. 

Saw something like a dinosaur park coming up, there were some zoo, museum, water theme parks, it seems really happening.

Reached this area which has several big buildings with vast space surrounding. Went in Planetarium to check if we can use the membership card from Petronas Science Center to go in for free.No, the girl behind the counter never heard of such ridiculous question before.

 No idea what the top building is.

 I think this one says something like a bowling center.

Very soon, after checking out the site of the investment that we were there for, we drove over to the city center. Traffic crawl await us.

 Part of my agenda of this trip were to
1. eat chicken rice balls (which was also korkor's agenda too)
2. cendol
3. nyonya food.

 We wanted to look for nyonya food at first, but soon we found out most of the nyonya restaurants were closed by that time. It was after 2pm. So when we bumped into this chicken rice balls shop, we were delighted and quickly went in to satisfy our hunger pangs.

This little boy who looked the same age as korkor were taking our orders and was very pro in his stuffs, can recommend dishes and explain certain things. I don't know what as I wasn't listening but that was what hubs told me after that.

 The shop exterior. It claims it is the best chicken rice balls in Melaka and came out in some food review in some newspaper too. But we all know those crap can't be trusted. And I have to say, the food really is so mediocre and too expensive! I would prefer Ipoh nga-choy-kei anytime!

Right after that, we checked out another investment site and moved on to a mall. Now what mall is that, my memory is definitely failing me.

I heard before that there is a shop selling some kickass cendol in there so we were hunting down for that shop. But that was after ANOTHER site seeing of ANOTHER investment, making it 3 for that day alone. I was getting very tired, so were the kids. It wasn't fun sitting down and listening to all those boring presentations. We just wanted to eat and shop, dammit!

It was a very exhaustive treasure hunt for that precious cendol and we were at the verge of quitting. It didn't help that the mall has BAD, very very bad, layout and no directory were to be seen around the huge place. We walked and walked and walked and the kids were confused why we were walking in circles and kept asking what we were hunting for. I guess they didn't know how important that cendol is.

 Eventually, we found it and happily ordered a bowl to quench my thirst. Since there were some promotions, we also bought another drink which came free of a strawberry smoothie. Didi was so delighted. He was the happiest boy that day.

Hubs asked if I wanted to have dinner before returning home and I thought why not. Though it was only a mere 3-4 hours after our lunch, I reckoned it would be way too late when we reached KL and the kids would need to be tucked in to bed soon as the next day was still a schoolday. Furthermore, I still hadn't have my nyonya cravings fulfilled.

We settled at this Ole Sayang which we had been to before years ago. This time was a bit disappointing coz the food didn't seem too appetizing. Or maybe we were still half full. No complaints though.

We hurriedly rushed back home while the kids slept throughout the journey. It was rather about 10+ when we were home but korkor said, no worries, they already have 2 hours sleep in the car so it will still be all good the next day. I was glad it did.

Melaka. I would like to go back there again one day, this time for a night stay. There are more to see and eat than what we had in that few hours.