Our Road Trip

So we decided to go on a road trip on Sunday eventhough we have barely recovered from our trip from Bangkok.  We left home at around 8.20 am to Malacca.  The journey was smooth and we reached at around 10 am.   Jonker street was already filled with tourists.  We walked along Jonker and checked out some shops selling clothes, pineapple tarts and Nyonya dumplings.

Ashley having a cup of fro-yo.  She didn’t want Durian ice-cream.

We also stopped to eat Chendol at one of the shops that wasn’t filled with tourists.  It was a very hot day and I put sunblock on Ashley before we ventured out.    At around noon time, we went around looking for Nyonya food but unfortunately, everywhere was packed.  We finally ate at a restaurant next to Hangout Hotel.  I didn’t jot down the name of the restaurant because we were hot and hungry.  We wanted to eat the usual Nyonya fare but sadly the owner said they were sold out.  Only available was chicken rice ball.

We had 15 rice balls between us – 3 adults and 1 child.

with a plate of mixed roast and steam chicken

After lunch, we walked further up after San Shu Gong and past a corner shop selling 3D Durian Ice. It was very good.  I think the shop name is EHA.

Can you see this long queue?  Everyone was queuing to have the Hainanese chicken rice ball at the Chop Chung Wah, the corner coffeeshop.  I think it’s just crazy.

We walked around and stumbled upon this Hello Kitty themed Home Sweet Home hotel.  I read it online that the rooms are lavishly decorated in Hello Kitty theme.

We left Malacca at around 2 plus but only reached home at 6pm.  There was a very bad traffic jam before Senawang and all the way to Nilai.  We exit Senawang to take the LEKAS highway to Cheras/Kajang but it was so far.  Sigh.  I think I would think twice about travelling to Malacca during public holidays that coincide with school break.