Travel Blog: October 2015

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Day 2 - Lunch at Amy Heritage -> Dinner at Daorae Korean Restaurant / Day 3 - Breakfast at Hotel -> Check out -> Taxi to Malacca Sentra -> Coach to Woodlands

Lunch was at Amy Heritage, also recommended by colleagues. Need to be early or make reservation. They declined guests once full. We did not make any reservation so have to wait for half an hour. There were 3 big groups of office staff dining there when we were there so it was full house pretty fast. The food was delicious and very home-cooked.
Shop Front

Barley

Kuey pie tee

Rice served in a nonya basket

Curry chicken - thumbs up!

Nonya cabbage

Last but not least - chendol

Dinner was at Daorae Korean Restaurant. Food is ok.
Shop Front

Need to order 2 sets of meat as a minimum.

Lots of side dishes

Pancake - complimentary

Breakfast was as sumptuous as the day before. After breakfast, we checked out. As the bus departing from Hatten was around 2pm and we wanted to leave early, we have to take a cab (surprisingly metered) to Malacca Sentra to catch the 10am bus. The cab driver said traffic police was on their rounds to catch cabs not running on meter rate.
The 10am bus broke down after leaving Malacca shortly on the North south highway and the bus company sent another one shortly. Not all could get on. Thank God we managed to get on without rushing and got off at Woodlands (as it is nearer to our place) instead of Rochor. and soon it was home sweet home.

Day 2 - Breakfast at Hotel -> St Paul's Church -> Jonker Street

Breakfast at Hatten was very good with a huge spread of food - So much to choose from - really spoilt for chocie - prata, nasi lemak, glutinous rice, noodles, dim sum on top of the usual american breakfast stuff.
Nasi Lemak, chicken curry, xiao bei chai

Glutinous Rice, Roti Prata

Laksa

Nasi Lemak , kuey teow

Prawn Mee

Baked beans, waffle, veg, samosa

Pineapple and chocolate cake

Desert Corner

Salad bar

Honeycomb

After a full and hearty breakfast, we were off to St Paul's Church pitched on top of a hill
Old Fort

Pirate Ship attraction

St Paul's ruins

Then it was time to buy titbits/tau sau piah and for some chendol in Jonker Street
Start of Jonker Street

Enroute to Chendol shop

Bought some tau sau piah here

Chendol at the shop at the end of Jonker Street, near the stage. Biscuits are sold here too.

Coconut was too thick?

Enroute to Hatten

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Day 1- Dutch Square -> Dinner at Restaurant Tong Sheng -> Dutch Square at night

Enroute to Dutch Square from Hatten Hotel.
Memorial

Tourist Information Centre

Christ Church

Clock Tower

Fountain

Windmill near Jonker Street

Dinner was at Tong sheng , recommended by my colleagues.

Famous gaint prawn beehoon - yummy and tasty - MYR 25

French beans

Dutch Square and surrounding at night

Day 1 - Cruise along Malacca River

Took a cruise along the Malacca River as there are not many things to do afterall besides the Dutch Sqaure

Day 1 - Lunch at Jonker Street

After check in to the hotel, it was time for lunch. Hotel is about 15mins walk to Jonker Street.
Could not locate the Nonya restuarant shop so settled lunch at Jonker 88 since we were tired, hot and hungry.

Interior Deco

Hubby ordered JB laksa. He said good.

Mine was nasi lemak. the complimentary nonya curry was good.

And of course the signature Malacca desert - Chendol!

Day 1 - Coach to Malacca -> Check in Hatten Hotel (Review) ->

We took the bus from 9am bus from Jurong and the bus stopped very near to Hatten Hotel. This was our corporate hotel and comments had been good so we decided to try it. We paid ~300MYR for an executive room with breakfast included. Hotel is the newest in Malacca and so it is always full house. Would advise to book way ahead.
Room is big with a King size bed and an adjacent sitting area with another TV.

Bedside Table

Entrance to bathroom. The toilet bowl was placed in an awkward position, is the way of the door else the design of the spacious bathroom would be perfect.