In the meantime, after my finals
Tinq with
Derek and
Heruey came over to Melaka for a trip and meet Derek for the first time,
Meet Tinq, best gal friend since pre-school
since primary, Steffi (counter-snapping me with her Iphone)
since primary, Her Ruey (on the left) and since last week, Derekfortunately some of my housemates went back to their hometown for a few days before our Redang trip so there won't be any cuddling or spooning going on, thanks to
Kam Wah for being so gracious enough for lending me his car and his room for them to bunk in for the night..
Picked them up at Melaka Sentral and then picked up Steffi from Manipal as well! our primary schoolmates and boy she hasn't changed much though.. brought them to my favourite place with the best melaka chicken rice balls ever! and best of all it's damn ridiculously cheap!
Can u imagine 5 people eating a full sized chicken and inclusive of drinks all for just less than 30 bucks?
fav!While bringing them around the town area, it was like a recollection of the places in Melaka that I've had the chance to visit during the course of my 4 years at UTeM, wish I could snap a shot of it and lock it in my memory..
I remembered during my 1st year on my first outing when I actually saw the fort and the red house (christ church) right in front of my own eyes, it was like a surreal experience of seeing it in the flesh right from the history books. After four years, now it seemed to me like any regular monuments or buildings, absence makes the heart grow fonder indeed.
A Famosa fort
Christ Church a.k.a Red House
just couldn't help myself
And of course the landmark of Melaka, Jonker Street. In mandarin it was called, "鸡场街". First when one of my seniors brought us on the outing, my terrible lack of the cantonese language back then translated it from mandarin as the infamous Petaling Street in KL(which till now I've never been to) and I had the idea that the the two places had the same name for almost one year! my bad..
Jonker Walk a.k.a Jonker StreetBut what I think Melaka gave me the best treasure was the cake restaurant called
Nadeje that specializes in
mille crêpe and served the best heavenly layered
crêpe cake ever!
FYI, mille means "a thousand" in french and crêpe stands for "very very thin sliced layered pancake", which implies the many many layers of
crêpe of the cake. Tinq was so in love with it that we went again the day after for the second time with Kam Wah. I met up with Derek again in Kuching and he still can't get his mind off the
Nadeje cakes. A definite must try.
heavenly~
Me and Tinq at Nadeje - round two! Tinq insisted that the bear must be in each photo. Girls.
Kindly ignore the bear. Introducing one of my close buddies in Melaka who wished not to be named in this photo *cough cough*But what I think Melaka gave me the best treasure was a restaurant called
Nadeje that specializes in
mille crêpe and served the best heavenly layered
crêpe cake ever!
FYI, mille means "a thousand" in french and crêpe stands for "very very thin sliced layered pancake", which implies the many many layers of
crêpe of the cake. Tinq was so in love with it that we went again the day after for the second time with Kam Wah. I met up with Derek again in Kuching and he still can't get his mind off the
Nadeje cakes. A definite must-try.
After the heavenly delight,
Satay Celup is definitely not to be missed. I just realized that I've only had the chance to actually try out
Satay Celup only after a year in Melaka. Tinq was pretty particular about the hygiene of
Satay Celup and a little paranoid about the gravy being
celup-ed. From what I heard, they (being the general public) said that the boiled gravy sauce were never exchanged between each round of customers. Coming to think of it, it did start to get into my head after my imagination begins to wander off when the previous customers and their salivas began to play in my head.. UGH~
Satay Celup~Will be flying off back to Melaka tomorrow for a 2 months extension course, something to do with the accreditation issues and stuff. I'll get into more details about it during my next post hopefully.
I'll be blogging again soon after I reach Melaka, that is IF I have internet connection at the new place.