Melaka - Part 1

So we took a bus from Larkin to Melaka/Malacca (still don't know the correct spelling!) and headed to our hotel. The bus dropped us off a ways a way so we got a taxi to our hotel. I remember the guy at the taxi rank, noticing all my loose notes in my bag and telling me I should secure them better so they didn't fall out.  A slight paranoia crept in but was completely unnecessary and actually he was spot on the (errr, money) with that advice because something sorta funny, sorta horrible happened to me a few days later (promise I'll share) but today is all about Melaka!

Our accommodating zzz hotel was great, I originally had us planned to hire bikes but it turned out, as with the rest of our trip, everything was quite close together and even though the hotel looked quite far from the city centre it was at max a ten minute walk :) City centre might be the wrong choice of words as Melaka consists of a river, some historical streets and on the other side of town (the zzz hotel side) some shopping centres. Ben mentioned he could of stayed longer than just a night and personally I would of been happy staying for two :)

Wow water in our room! This was super fancy for us, well comparing our previous accommodations :p

This photo above was taken walking along one of the historical streets.
Jonker Street seems to be the street everyone knows about but there are other parallel streets and lots of smaller joining streets that Ben and I had a lot of fun exploring :)

The decorated trishaws were beyond amazing, you'll see I took a lot of pictures of them :p

Mr Asia and Mr Universe oh and Ben (my favourite!) Ben arrived home on Thursday from being weeks away at his work, so life is happy and a little bit sappy!

So awesome! 

Ben bought this for someone special and no it wasn't for me.

It's fun walking along the river, although the river isn't too spectacular there are some fun painted murals along the way

The treat was actually Pulut Inti, where traditionally, the rice is dyed using blue flowers and is made up of rice, coconut and sugar wrapped up into a banana leaf :)

And this is the special guy, a baby kitten we found. Ben insisted we spent the next half hour hunting him down some meat. We had to settle on the rice, because we just couldn't find anything else.

I hope our friend is doing alright :)

I kept thinking the streets of Malaka would make the perfect background for a fashion photo shoot

This is the baboon house and if you ever find yourself in Melaka go there! Unfortunately photos weren't allowed inside which killed me because it was amazing (google it for people that were more sneaky than me) it was here Ben and I had the best burgers we'd ever eaten even better than freshness burger in Japan!

This is the outside, I believe one of the owners is an artist and as you walk into the cafe you pass a gallery of all his work, but it was the garden inside and bare walls and yummo food that totally sold Ben and I.  Ben was ready to pack up and move to Melaka and start something similar himself :)

One of the rickshaws was playing the chicken dance as it zipped past, I love that they compete for tourists by upping their outrageousness!

A giant tea Tarik form Lao qian! I'd definitely recommend one of these as the frosty-ness hit the spot on such a hot day :)

And now for the tragedy of sweet home! I'll let you in on a little secret, I kind of only planned Melaka because of this hello kitty themed hotel but by the time I went to book they were no vacancies left - I could have cried. My friend Emaya suggested we sneak in and take photos which we tried to do but found it was tightly secured.  Even taking photos outside, someone came out and inquired what I was doing! errr, they didn't seem very friendly so I was okay with just staying at z hotel!

Loved all the street art, Melaka is definitely eclectic :)

*shakes fist*

At night we went for a wander to find t-bowl a themed restaurant where the serve their food and desserts in toilet shaped ceramic dishes, you also get to sit on a toilet seat! Sounded amazing, unfortunately after wandering many streets we worked out it must have closed down :(

We instead, stopped by Ole Sayang, a Chinese Restaurant where I got to try the famous Cendol! Basically a shaved ice dessert with coconut milk and red beans and jelly stripes and lets just say lots and lots of sugar!!

Too much sugar!

 Love it!

I'll be back again tomorrow with even more photos of Melaka for you guys :)