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 Sunday, January 03, 2010 @ 00:18
day 2: malacca one would think after the first day, we would go easy on food. wrong! now i see it as prelude to more food. first thing we did at seven in the morning was to have some dim sum down the block.   my uncle kept insisting that we try the big pau there. in singapore, the meat is packed into a ball, but the pork here is just minced meat wrapped in a pau. so we had to be careful while eating.  they actually have yong tau foo on the menu at a dim sum place! too oily for breakfast.  next, was... breakfast part 2! my uncle led us to his auntie's coffee shop in some housing estate. we made so many wrong turns, they started to joke that we were looking for houses.  his auntie's stall was famous for its laksa and prawn mee.  the laksa reminded me of the laksa i had in primary school. i never could find something similar all these years. it was nothing like our local laksa, penang laksa or curry mee some people try to pass off as laksa. the soup base was not as thick and less spicy than the usual laksas. easier on the throat.  the prawn mee was average. old town white coffee's one is better.  after having the noodles, my uncle still ordered toast. i was already so full from everything, but i was glad i tasted the toast. the bread was thin and crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. the kaya was sweet and butter creamy.  after breakfast, it was tesco for shopping. it's astonishing what you can do with space. malaysia has lots of gigantic supermarkets. talking about one building for one supermarket kind of big. the only one we have here in singapore is ikea.  sis and i found this cool hair accessory. it's a plastic piece with a hole in the middle and hooks at the end. so you put your hair in the hole, roll up the piece and secure the hooks. the bun looks very neat huh?   what could we possibly find here?   lots of nonya kuehs! the family house also functions as a shop. the road leading to the shop was small and obscured by plants. there were no signs to direct and we were amazed there were so many people there.  the ondeh ondeh had to be ordered and prepared on the spot.  my family bought so many kuehs the four of us took for 2 days to finish them. i found the kuehs to be mostly the same, with little changes in combination of ingredients such as coconut, banana, gula melaka and glutinous rice. all of us liked different ones, so i guess kuehs are subjective to taste. i feel that bengawan solo has better kuehs and varieties.  what we found next was a gem! jing yuan biscuit and bakery.  this is the best pong piah i was talking about. we reached the shop around 1pm and everything was sold out for the day! they were just open to fill up orders. luckily, after beseeching the owner's son, we managed to lay claim to six packets!  the owner's son with happy people. we left our buys in our hotel room and went exploring on foot.  an old man wielding metal parts together to form a container the old fashioned way.  rattan shop. my mum went in intended to buy a small stool but we came out with my dad and aunt having hats on their heads.   crossed over another bridge to see...  my personal nightmare--a bird shop. remember they used to have shops like this in singapore in the 90s but thank god they're kind of rare now.  an old barber shop.  lunch at a hawker centre. the hawker centre had several stalls selling only roasted meat. specialisation!   divine! the meats were succulent and flavourful.   we had some indian rojak to top off the roasted meats. unlike the indian rojak of singapore, where you choose from an assortment of fried snacks and goodies like fishcakes and cuttlefish, this one was fixed. it was a combination of cucumber, onions, fried flour drowned in sweet sauce. interesting and unique and i found it more appetising than singapore's version.    some graffiti we saw along the way and my uncle's take on it. went back to rest a while before heading out to dinner.  we walked through another night market before my uncle brought as nearby for some nonya food. i think the higher ups decided to make us work for dinner that night after being gluttons for two days because it was closed and we had to walk very far to the alternative.  along the way we saw this satay steamboat place. look at the queue. apparently, there are two stalls selling the same thing but people always queue up for the one on the right.  finally, dinner! it was like the finishing line at the end of a 10k run. we were all starving and tired by then. and the yellow sign was extremely welcoming.  steamed grouper. very fresh.  dark sauce beehoon. i think we were so hungry everything tasted wonderful.   last but not least, the beef steamboat we walked all the way for. the beef was normal sliced beef, no marinate. the broth on the other hand, wow. it was obviously boiled for very long and the beef taste just permeates with every spoonful. i would walk that all the way for the steamboat again. Labels: family, food, holidays |