After papa came back to Singapore on Friday, we had a short getaway to Malacca the next day. Papa drove there and it took around 3.5 hours including the immigration clearance.
We arrived there around 2 pm and had late lunch at Mega Mall Malacca.
Then we explored the Malacca heritage centre which including their famous landmarks, St Paul's ruins, Christ church and red bricks buildings.
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| St paul ruins |
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| Christ Church Area |
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| tricycle to explore the city centre |
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| St Francis Xavier Church |
In the evening we had dinner at Cottage Spices Nyonya restaurant which 6 minutes walk from our hotel. We stayed at Hotel Equatorial. Eventhough it's quite old, the location was good. It's 10 minutes walk to city center.
We ordered few peranakan dishes and they were so good. Our tummy was fully satisfied.
When we were on the way back to hotel, we passed by fruits stall and decided to have durian feast.
It was so cheap and the owner was very kind, he kept giving us free durian as their stall was closing soon.
In the end, we had good night sleep at the hotel.
The next day was a rainy and cloudy day, it's quite opposite from the day before.
After breakfast and checking out, we went to Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum and passed by Jonker Street. We visited the museum and it reminded me to my grandaunt's house in Semarang.
Then we stopped by to Baba Charlie Cake to buy some peranakan delicacy. It's freshly made and the queue was long.
We took away the kueh for our food stock during our journey back to Singapore.
We left Malacca around 1pm and it took around 3.5 hours and reached Singapore around 4pm.
It was a short, sweet and nice escape to neighbouring country.
Something we learnt from this trip, Malacca was a peranakan county. The livehood there was pretty relax. Most of food stalls only open half day either morning until afternoon or evening until late.
The people were nice and friendly.
