Holiday travel tips and experiences: KL & Malacca Malaysia 17/09

Ban Hong Xiang Tea House for Dim sum food

This morning was a slow and lazy day for us. Not sure of what to have for breakfast, we finally decided to try the dim sum food at Ban Hong Xiang Tea House. Open for business from 0530 hrs to 1230 hrs, the shop which consists of three shop lots was bustling with diners at 1000 hrs.

Fortunately for us, we managed to get a table quite soon. We were amazed at the variety of dim sum food and even though we ate quite a bit, there were still lots of dishes which we did not manage to try. Hubby loved the char siew pao that had been deep fried and managed to consume more than 5 of those!

Good variety of dim sum dishes

After lunch, as we were on our way back to Arenaa De Luxe Hotel, we somehow ended up at Kampong Morten where we saw a beautiful garden and a wonderfully well kept house. We were so attracted by it that we stopped the car and went down to take a picture.

The house that caught our eye

A day in a Malay wedding attire

Kampung Morten, Malaysia attraction

The owner, Puan Hajjah Kamarbee invited us into the house to take a look and even offered us to use the Malay wedding attire to take photos in. It was a really wonderful experience being able to see a traditional Malay kampung house. You can tell that she really kept the house in great order.

This must have been one of our best experiences in Malacca and is a great Malaysia attraction.

Located at 135A Kampung Morten, you can take a look at the house and have a chance of using the Malay wedding attire to take photos.

Next we proceeded to Jonker Walk to buy some ‘Beh The Sor’ (flaky biscuit with sticky maltose filling) from Tian Hup Seng Biscuit shop. Hubby tried this the last time and found it to be even better than Shan Shu Gong’s, thus the repeat purchase. Costing RM6 for 10 pieces, it was great value for money.

Shopkeeper packing the biscuits

Tian Hup Seng Biscuit for Malaysian food products

Our friend Lionel also bought a laughing Buddha statue made from white marble and with great details.

We then proceeded to Donald & Lily for some Nonya food. Located at Jalan Tan Tun Cheng Lock, Donald and Lily operate out of their home.

Donald & Lily, for nyonya food

As we were still full from the late breakfast, we ordered the nonya chendol, tauhu rojak and mee siam to try. Admittedly the food was not too bad. However, as we have tried better food elsewhere and since we have a point of reference, we felt that Jeta Groves was better in terms of food quality especially for the chendol and the mee siam.

Next stop was Jusco where we made some purchases before returning to Arenaa De Luxe Hotel to freshen up a little and check out.

Jusco shopping

We then made our way to Scents and Senses at Melaka Raya for some traditional Thai massage. This massage place seemed to be better than yesterday’s in terms of cleanliness and hygiene. What was good was the fact that the masseuse, being Thai, could speak some English. We had a great 90 minutes of massage where the guys tried the traditional Thai massage and the ladies tried the traditional Thai herbal massage.

Scents and Senses

After the relaxing massage, we started on our journey back to Singapore. Stopping over at Yong Peng Or Hwu Restaurant, which was recommended by a friend of ours, we had our dinner there.
This is the second time that we have been to Or Hwu and we find that the food is definitely worth the price that we pay.