I had a Chendol-licious weekend in Melaka. Ate 4 bowls of chendol in the 2 days I was there..
We drove off at 6am in the morning, 3 cars and 11 of us in total, and reached JB for breakfast around 7plus. Had wanton noodles, chee cheong fun and fried you tiao.
Continued the drive all the way to Melaka, had lunch (and first bowl of Chendol) at this Peranakan restaurant. Yummy... I kinda fell in love with Peranakan food during this trip!
Checked into the Holiday Inn around 2pm. Pretty decent place with a nice pool and gym facilities. I actually like the pool.. it's the "borderless" kind at one side which has a view of the sea. I spent 30 minutes on the threadmill and sit ups on Sunday morning just before we checked out, and about 1 hour in the pool with K and his cousin, just lazing around.. then another 15 minutes in the steam bath with K's auntie.. it was nice.
Here are some pictures of the pool and view from my hotel room.. They even have their very own version of the "Malacca Eye".. = )
On Saturday, the family headed out to this night Bazaar called "Jonker's Walk" for some shopping and dinner. Dinner was laksa and some deep fried items. Not too bad. Except it was raining outside heavily... and we ended up soaking wet walking to the restaurant, and back to wait for the hotel shuttle bus to bring us back. And that was after i had just washed my hair. So i showered and washed my hair twice that night. About an hour after we got back to the hotel, we headed out again for supper. Had another round of good food. Fried Kuay Teow, my favourite wan ton noodles (the dark sauce kind), fried oyster, prawn noodles, satay, porridge and of course, chendol. One thing about eating in a group is that i always find it hard to have my fill when i find something i really liked. We had a central pool of money for food, so to order additional, it had to be a concensus. Of course i could use my own money to buy, but it didn't seem right eating in front of the whole group without offering them some. I badly wanted to eat more of the satay and wanton noodles. They only ordered like 2 bowls of wanton noodles, and 15 sticks for the satay. I only had 2 sticks of satay, and then they said they will pack 6 sticks back for grandma and K's sister who did not join us for supper. Sianz.. = (
We checked out the next day, had another Peranakan lunch (and chendol), this time better than the first, after which we proceeded to Kulai Springs Resort, which one of them was a member of. The "adults" seemed pretty awed by the place, but K and I thought it was crappy. In fact, they liked it so much they booked a small apartment for next month already. We had chinese for dinner at the resort. Food was good, at least. By the time we reached home, it was close to midnight.
Throughout the long drive, i finished one book. "BLINK" by Malcolm Gladwell. Totally amazing book about the power of thinking without thinking, how sometimes our snap judgements can be more accurate than hours of well-evaluated analysis.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it. This book is so interesting it got my attention right from the first page!! I think i'm hooked on Mr. Gladwell.. I need more!
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