Malacca & the Jungle Birthday

Went for a day trip to Malacca last Saturday.

The responsible and safe driver -- Edmund. Drove so safely that even the Viva was forced to overtake him.

A Famosa, through the lenses of a DSLR.

Interior of St. Paul's Church. I've always enjoy reading the memorial plaques there.

Some underground fort, I'm guessing St. John's fort?

Stadthuys Square. I don't even know how to pronounce it.

Good old Jonker Street.

Donald & Lily's Restaurant, at a hidden nook nearby Jonker Street. According to the orang Melaka, this restaurant serves the best nyonya food and cendol.

2 bowls of cendol for RM5. The coconut milk and the gula melaka was the perfect ratio, so it wasn't too cloyingly sweet or too 'milky'. I'm a sweet tooth, I don't like my cendol with too much coconut milk. I found this 1 just nice.

Ensconced in the middle is the taugua rojak, RM5. Again, I'm not a rojak person. I don't like the crunchy things they serve in the usual rojak. Taugua rojak, however, has my favourite tofu and fish cake. With the usual cucumbers and pineapples, a generous splash of black sauce and a sprinkle of crushed nuts. Perfect.

The delicious nyonya laksa. Unlike the ones in KL, they serve nyonya laksa with fish balls and omelette shreds instead of the usual shreds of chicken meat. The portion is not too big, just nice and at a reasonable price of RM3.50. The laksa is rich with coconut milk, not too spicy and really really tasty.

All in all, our lunch was RM8.50 per person.

Went to Sam Shu Gong to shop for local snacks. Bought some chicken biscuit and a jar of concentrated preserved lime juice for mommy.

Our poser pictures taken in Dataran Pahlawan Megamall. He looks more natural at it, and he calls me a poser. Pfft.

Had tea at Nadeje. We ordered an original flavour mille crepe cake and some non-alcohol cocktails (we're good children). On the left is Vanilla Bay, which tasted like 100 plus with pineapple chunks at the bottom. Mine was Florida Breeze, on the right. Sour, just what I needed.

The original flavour mille crepe cake was RM8.50. A little pricey, but you gotta give the thumbs up to this chef. What seemed like a thousand layers of thin mille crepe decked on top of each other with vanilla cream sandwiched between. Yet to try the cheese flavour one.

Bought some cheese tarts from Opps!!! Cheese Tarts @ Dataran Pahlawan back to KL. They all look so yummy: black & white chocolate, lemon, chocolate, blueberry, strawberry, black charcoal and a free almond cheese tart!

We then went to meet up with the Zainan gang (shortform 'ZN') to give Tokyo a surprise visit. Unfortunately, Tokyo's beloved Chieh sort of gave out the surprise. So the birthday boy wasn't surprised at all. How disappointing.

Some genius' idea to celebrate Tokyo's birthday in the jungles of Hulu Langat. The surrounding was so dark and scary (lots of banana trees). But I must say, the food was good.

The birthday boy with a face of sheer disappointment after finding out that his birthday gift was a basketball. He realised later that it was a genuine Nike basketball that costs a bomb, and most probably touched by LeBron James.

My first yee sang of the year. A very, very salty one = a salty start?

Yesterday was my last day of work. So I guess you guys will see more entries. Hopefully.