Jalan-jalan Jonker

A fortnight ago, Esah, Meah, Mess and I went for a quick getaway to Melaka. We dedicated the trip to Cik Me'ah who will be migrating to Miri very soon. My faithful Mr Wiggie drove us down, arriving in Melaka just in time for a hefty light lunch @ Donald & Lily's, a cosy little Baba & Nyonya place just nearby Jonker Walk. Famous for its cendol & Curry Laksa, we all had our fair share [except for Cik Esah, who tricked us cause she only ordered taukua rojak for lunch! Deymm you!] hehehe.

 lovely me'ah

 sweet mess

esah and her rojak

 Donald & Lily's

 ❤ the angel

 Non yang tengah comot ;)

We then walked along Jonker Walk to ease our gastrointestinal tracts. 

And then we found this. 

Pineapple tarts. Nyummm!

And of course, we had to do the touristy sh*t stuff too.

Corny Cute T-shirts sold @ Jonker Walk

We also visited Me'ah's favourite Cheongsam shop.

 Meah trying on Cheongsam's with her personal assistant helping her out. 

Miss Nyonya's Next Top Model.

We then spent the afternoon exploring Mahkota Parade [transl. lepak @ Starbucks, minum kopi and gossiping] & wandering around in Dataran Pahlawan [transl. beli Cakar Ayam]. A few hours later, as the sun started setting in the horizon, we made our way to ---- [Esah, fill in the blanks please], a seafood joint located about 1/2 hour from Malacca town. Nice Malay seafood cooking, though we made the mistake of ordering too many chilli-based dishes. Bumped into a senior of ours back in high school, who now resides in the United States. 

[For Toblaterians, 10 pts shall be awarded for guessing correctly who that person is]

After dinner, we headed back to Jonker Walk for the night-time experience this time. Huge crowd, that's for sure. I kept holding on to the thought of enjoying Cendol Durian @ Bibik's house to motivate me through that 'lautan manusia'. Unfortunately, the heavens have decided that I've already eaten too much for the day and it was totally sold out once we reached there.

Luckily we had some entertainment to cheer ourselves up that night. A huge stage was erected in the middle of Jonker Walk for a '1Malaysia' [gulp!] event to celebrate Ali Rustam's 10th year in power as Ketua Menteri Melaka and Jonker Walk's 10th year anniversary. 

 Basically, it was a Chinese karoeke session.

 A cute old Baba dancing along to the singing couple.

You just hafta ❤ his toupée.

All in all,
we had a great trip and a marvellous time. Good food, good company, what more could you ask for. Definitely have to head down again soon to get that Cendol Durian.

Me'ah drove us all back to KL that night, and later confessed that she too had fallen in ❤ with Mr Wiggie. Just as Miss Temah did during our Tenggol trip a few months back. 

Mr Wiggie, you are definitely my unsung hero.