obsession with food: January 2012

Been wanting to go Malacca long time back. The mixture of heritage, shopping and food fascinated me to go there. So I was there over the weekend with my family, inclusive of my aunts, uncles and cousins. It was a big group, a total of 12. Wasn't easy to organise and I truly understand how hard it was for my small aunt to organise for 30+ of our full strength family members to Desaru. That was like 14 years back and we, cousins were so young then!

Anyway, we engaged Five Stars Tours and took up a free and easy 3D2N package but with a two and a half hour heritage tour on Day 2.

4th aunt and uncle sitting comfy-ly, playing games on iPhone while waiting for coach to set off :)

Stopping point at Yong Peng which reminds me of Michelle Chong in 'Already Famous', haha..

First time I saw purple color keropok. Keropok there is so good that mum bought more when we get to stop over there again before heading back to Singapore on our last day.

Love Japanese wasabi? This is the best ever wasabi snack k! YamaDa's wasabi peas! By the way, it should be spelled as 'da' not 'ta'. Trust me. Haha..The feel of the rush of 'smoke' coming out from your nostril is so dam shiok.

Traffic light in Malacca.

Counting down by seconds, even for green light. Dam long...

Had lunch at Wong Kok, Dataran Pahlawan Megamall which is opened by Guo Jinan. Lunch here was bad due to their service. Waited very long for their food while some has finished.

Kiwi drink. Just a tinge of sourness.

Dad's Wu Xiang Fried Rice.

Fried Seafood Pasta in tomato sauce. Simple yet savory. Fried pasta just taste better. Try frying macaroni too!

We checked in to Hotel Equatorial. Pleased that it looks very much like as what is shown on their website.

Left view from balcony.

Centre view

Right view

Pose pose with the view as background,

pose pose on bed...

and mirror reflection

The new hotel, Casa Del Rio. Check out the website! seems quite worthwhile to give it a try. If you don't mind the smell of the Melaka River. Lol.

Took the trishaw ride from Melaka River back to Hotel Equatorial for 20RM. My first time and I love it! We got to listen to 70s songs while riding. So funky. Haha..

Hello Aunt! :)

Our free set of Nyonya dinner at Seri Nyonya Peranakan Restaurant , located in the hotel.

Black, white and red gua zi served while waiting. Something different...

Sop Itik Tim. Simply love Peranakan's kinda Itek Tim. To some, it can be extremely salty that they just can't finish it.

Ikan Goreng Chilli Gram - Deep Fried Fillet Seabass with Spicy Chilli Paste. It's the chilli paste that is good and brings out the dish. Not very spicy and with a sweet taste.

Ayam Pongteh. Like the paste of Ayam Buluak, its sweet bean paste goes so well with rice which makes me wanna scoop more. The best paste from this dish I ever tasted so far!