Kota Laksamana Pasar Malam Malacca

Kota Laksamana Pasar Malam (Night Market) is in operation every Saturday along Jalan Kota Laksamana, just behind the famous Jonker Street and Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Malacca town.

The stall holders start setting up their makeshift stalls as early as 1600 hrs and end pretty early around 2000 hrs.

As with the majority of pasar malams, you can find a variety of local items there at cheap prices including Malaysia food, clothing and knick knacks. Surprisingly, there were also fresh vegetables on sale at the Kota Laksamana pasar malam.

Malaysian snacks

Makeshift stalls along the road

Well known nyonya cake supplier - Baba Charlie

Baba Charlie nyonya popiah

More Malaysian food

Egg tarts

Stall owner frying noodles

Another Malaysian food - carrot cake

Keropok (crackers) - best eaten dipped in chilli sauce

Bean curd

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Malacca Vacation 6 Nov - 7 Nov 2010

This Saturday morning, for our drive to Malacca, we left early in the morning to pick up our friends, 2 sisters whose hometown is in Malacca. Thus our Malacca vacation started extra early this round.

As usual, on the way up to Malacca, we decided to stop at Machap R&R for a break and had a simple breakfast there.

Nasi lemak (coconut rice) breakfast

Nasi lemak unwrapped

Dry mee siam

This time, we tried the dry mee siam from a different stall located to the left of the main entrance which we thought was not as good as stall no. 8.

One of the sisters, always ready for a shot!

After dropping the sisters off safely at their home just at the start of the famous Jonker Street, we went to Chinatown area to buy some baking supplies and then took the opportunity to visit Hang Li Poh's well, a mere minute's drive from where we were.

Alas! We visited the Poh San Teng Temple, one of the Malacca attractions and was disappointed at the little covered well we saw inside, little realising that this was not the well-known Hang Li Poh's well which is adjacet to the temple.

Poh San Teng temple entrance

Inside Poh San Teng temple

Next we headed for Hotel Puri Malacca which is near Jonker Street. However as it was still early, the rooms were not ready yet.

We made our way to Jeta Groves in Melaka Raya to have some Nyonya food for lunch.

As usual, we were not disappointed.

Fried tou fu

As always, we are tempted by the durian chendol and just had to indulge

Nyonya mee siam

Since we were going for a Thai massage at Scents and Senses, we did not have a heavy lunch.

Holiday Travel Tips:-

Always make an appointment if you wish to have a massage at Scents and Senses, especially during the weekends or you will be disappointed.

At Scents and Senses, you will be pampered and feel relaxed.

After a 2 hour Thai massage, we felt rejuvenated. We then returned to Hotel Puri and this time, we were able to check in.

Deepavali display in the lobby

The beautiful garden with a gentle waterfall

Our room in Hotel Puri

After we had settled in, our friend Emileigh met us and brought us to the Kota Laksamana pasar malam, about 5 minutes walk from Hotel Puri. It was an interesting walk and we saw a variety of local Malaysian food as well as fresh vegetables and other knick knacks and clothing too.

Baba Charlie Nyonya Popiah

We were excited to discover Baba Charlie here. As we are fans of Baba Charlie nyonya cakes, we had always wanted to know which pasar malams we could find them. Best of all, we could try the nyonya popiah as we have always been to the Baba Charlie home in Jalan Tengkera Pantai 2 and the popiah was always not ready.

A stall holder frying carrot cake

After buying whatever food we wanted, we walked a short distance to Emileigh's house to have the various packet food for dinner.

Pandan beancurd

Carrot cake

Oyster omelette

Emileigh and her godsister

We had a great time getting to know Emileigh and her family and our stomach was full from the various Malaysia food that Emileigh had bought for us to try as well.

After dinner, we took a walk along Jonker Street on our way back to our Malacca accommodation for the night, Hotel Puri Melaka.

Jonker Walk which comes alive every Friday, Saturday & Sunday evenings

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Malaysia Vacation – Cherating and Rompin Beach Resort Day 6

Malaysia beach resort

As we needed to head back to Singapore today, this officially ends our Malaysia vacation. We had a great week holidaying in Malaysia and enjoying the Malaysia beach resort, especially the one in Cherating, The Legend Resort.

Starting with an early breakfast at 0730 hrs, we had a not-too-heavy breakfast from the buffet counter at Summerset Resort Rompin. Comprising breakfast food of basically Malaysian variety, you could get nasi lemak (coconut rice, also known as the national dish of Malaysia), ayam rendang (chicken in coconut milk), plain porridge with condiments as well as baked beans and sausages.

Enjoying breakfast

Breakfast food of a great variety

Plain porridge and condiments

The fried noodles was good

Artwork in The Dining Room

Chinese New Year decorations

Fruits

Upon meeting up with Masitah from the Food & Beverage department, she mentioned that the Royal of Pahang’s entourage of 20 had their breakfast specially prepared at 0500 hrs.

With Masitah, left

After breakfast, we returned to our room to make an international call to the facilitator of The Opening, an awakening enlightenment program that would be happening next month, as we needed to discuss certain issues before we met up with the resort staff to obtain the contract.

Waiting for the international call

And the resort staff

By the time we left this beach resort accommodation, it was almost 1030 hrs, an hour and a half later than we had planned. Fortunately for us, the drive back to Singapore along Highway 3 was a smooth journey except for certain slow moving vehicles.

Mersing...

Stopping by Mersing, we managed to locate the keropok (crackers) factory at 37 Jalan Abdullah 87800, Mersing. We had been here once before by following some friends and was hoping to be able to find the place again.

The keropok factory

Various kinds of keropok on sale

And dried salted fish as well

Making the purchases

We managed to purchase some Malaysian snacks and various kids of keropok. Next door, you could see the process of making the keropok.

Where the keropok is processed

Getting the dough ready and weighing it

Rolling the dough

HJ. Puteh shop

After shopping and purchasing the keropok, we followed directions from our Garmin global positioning system to Restoran Hai Sing for lunch. The outlet looked more like a coffee shop than a restaurant.

We ordered the fishball kway teow (rice noodles) soup and the kong bak (braised pork) noodles. Accompanied with pork lard, the fish balls were smooth, bouncy and great tasting as were all the other dishes. Total cost for lunch came up to RM35 (USD10.65) inclusive of 5 glasses of herbal tea.

Hai Soon Restaurant

Deciding what to order for lunch

Fish ball kway teow soup

Kong bak noodles

Kong bak kway teow

Hungry souls...

Continuing on our journey back to Singapore, we stopped at a petrol station along the way to top up before reaching the Woodlands checkpoint at 1450 hrs. it was a breeze getting through the Malaysian custom and immigration as the counters were clear and there was no queue. However on the Singapore end, we took approximately 20 minutes to clear both customs and immigration.

Six days have passed since we started on our Chinese New Year Malaysia vacation. This was our first visit to Cherating beach resort and we enjoyed the various Malaysian food that we managed to try which were indigenous to the East Coast of Malaysia. At the same time, we also managed to settle some logistical issues for The Opening, an awakening enlightenment program we are helping out with next month. Overall it had been a beautiful and wonderful week lazing around at the laid-back Malaysia beach resort.




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