I just got back from Melaka yesterday. Went there with my sis, 3 nieces n 2 nephews. My bro's family need to attend my niece's convocation do in Trengganu so my bro's asked for our help to send his son to Kolej Yayasan Saad for final selection program (form 1 intake) http://kysm.edu.my/
Anyway, we got there about 3pm++, sat for briefing etc and proceeded to check-in into our accommodation for the night at Garden City Apartment http://www.gardencity.com.my/
Not a bad place, we have stayed here before during our family outing years ago, the place looks like any residential apartment. Reasonably clean though one lift was down so long queue to use the lift and most peoples decided to use staircase. The bed in our unit..hmm need to be careful, my 3 year old nephew kept on asking why is the bed tilting when we slept on it.
That night we went for dinner at Portuguese Settlement, as usual the moment you parked your car, a group of them came to 'promote' their stalls. We felt harassed n decided to walk around before deciding which stall to have our dinner at. While walking around, we googled and found someone recommended stall 88, hmm not a good choice. We had scallops cooked with dried chillies (powdered chilly tasted uncooked), butter prawns (guts not cleaned), Portuguese bake fish (tasted so so), sotong fritters (not nice), garlic kailan (nice), cili padi lala (nice). Total inclusive drinks for 5pax RM138.00
After dinner, went back to the apartment n zzz. Next morning had bread n peanut butter for breakfast. For lunch we decided to look for best asam pedas daging in Melaka, googled and someone suggested 'Restoren Nasi Ayam Special di Bachang', she mentioned http://www.kakinakl.com/2010/05/makan-apa-yang-sedap-di-melakabest.html it is nearby Melaka Sentral, so we went looking and couldn't find the place, we were hungry and saw this restaurant "Restoran Cinta Rasa & Kafe" at Plaza Melaka Sentral. Their daun ubi masak lemak cili padi is delicious, their asam pedas daging is not bad too. lunch cost us RM38 for 4pax.
After lunch off to KL
===================================================================================
Excerpt from my blog entry in 2009:
The stalls -
* Seafood Terrace
* Joan n El' Chico's - we had our lunch here
* Seafront
* Joe Splash Five
* Big Benz Fountain
* Jenny Kopitiam
* J&J Corner
* De Costas
Food? Delicious! We had clams (lala), grilled portuguese fish, brinjall (portuguese style) and butter prawns. Total? RM80++?
What others said about Portuguese Settlement:
* http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=24358
* http://j2kfm.blogspot.com/2009/01/seafood-portuguese-settlement-melaka.html
* http://www.iwannaseetheworld.com/?p=7
* http://www.foodpoi.com/2008/10/portuguese-settlement-sea-terrace-seafood/
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2008/12/sea-terrance-portuguese-settlement
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/01/revisitng-sea-terrace-portuguese-settlement
* http://absolutginger.com/tag/portuguese-settlement/
* http://www.melaka.org.my/eatingout/portuguese.html
* http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/only-one-mango-juice-portuguese-settlement
Showing posts with label Halal / Pork free restaurants in Melaka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halal / Pork free restaurants in Melaka. Show all posts
Monday, 22 November 2010
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Treasure Hunt KL-Melaka
My niece is in KL now for her school break (she's studying in Jakarta - International Baccalaureate programme http://www.ibo.org/).
As part of the programme she is required to accumulate points for extra co-curricular activities - any programme that can develop her strength, enhance her knowledge, develop new skills etc.
Few years back she & I and my sis participated in Treasure Hunt event organized by The Sun (2005). That time we didn't win anything as we were new and clueless on how to read cryptic clues and solve the puzzles (we did however managed to secure top 10 placing in monorail hunt 2003 - beginner's luck).
Now, that she's back here she suggested that we tried again (after many years), I forwarded to her some treasure hunt sites and we finally chose an event organized by YKN (Yayasan Kebajikan Negara) - the prize seems good (even though we don't think we'll win anything) and we can participate in charity event.
So, Friday night (17/7/09), I went to sleep at my sis's house in Jalan U-Thant since we need to be at the flag off point early (flag off at 7.30am). That night, I couldn't sleep - 1) lots of mozzies (in the end my niece & I stayed up and managed to kill 7-8 mozzies) then we finally managed to sleep, but after an hour or 2 hours of sleep a loud noise can be heard from outside due to on-going road work...urgh...
I only managed to catch few winks then time to get up (5.30am) - after subuh prayer, we went to Pandan Indah to tapau McD's breakfast (breakfast cum lunch - my sis tapau 2 burger for each of us). We reached Pusat Sains Negara (flag off point) quite late, 10 minutes before flag off. After short briefing, photo session, off we go with tulips and questionaires in hand.
First stop at South City Seri Kembangan. 2 portions here and we only managed to solve correctly answers in 2nd portion. Then we continued with our hunting.
We managed to submit our first part of the questionaires at check point 1 (Medan Selera Sri Kendong in Rembau); after collecting 2nd part of the questionaires we started hunting and submitted the questionaire at last check point (Rumah Seri Kenangan Cheng, Melaka).
We can only check-in into D'Village Resort at 3pm so we spotted Aunty & Uncle Kopitiam after we left Rumah Cheng, decided to stop for lunch. The shop is new and the owner (I think he's the owner) very friendly and attentive. My niece had mihun sup and I had their chicken curry set lunch and we tapau fried rice for my sis (she had bad headache and slept in a car). Taste? Typical kopitiam food..
After lunch we proceeded to D'Village Resort. Check-in was a breeze as the organizer was very efficient n organized :-)
As we enrolled in family category, we were given family chalet - 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms basically 2 individual chalets linked together with adjoining door. Reasonably clean with basic facilities - I don't mind going there again.
After resting a while we decided to explore nearby attractions - first stop - butterfly park (farm?) - the place looked abandoned..perhaps they closed for renovation? Next stop - Mini Malaysia / Asean Village - they closed at 6pm and we reached there slightly after 6pm...sigh..so we just walked around the compound and returned to hotel..we spotted a playing ground opposite the hotel (Dataran something) and decided to stop by so that my nephew can play there. While waiting for him, an ice cream man (with motorbike) came and we enjoyed his ice cream (homemade?) reminded me of my childhood days in my kampung...
Image from http://www.freewebs.com/cho-ko/picspeninsularmalaysia.htm
That night we had dinner (included in our Treasure Hunt package) and after dinner, main event of the night - the organizer revealed the answers and prize giving ceremony. We secured 3rd place in family category and 16th place in open category...not bad huh...considering this was our 4th hunt and our last hunt was like 4 years ago....
(hmm..trying to recall our 1st hunt...my eldest sis asked us to join her in a hunt organized by FRIM some time in 1993? something about eco/green or earth thingy...we were totally clueless..and gave up after few questions.......we didn't even know how to read tulip!)
Dinner was good. Lots of food and only 5 adults and 3 kids sharing the food (well..2 kids since my nephew doesn't eat rice or any dishes).
Next day's breakfast was nasi lemak, fried noodles and bread...nasi lemak was actually quite tasty...
We checked out at 12noon and decided to drive around Jonker Street and stopped by to try Eye of Malacca.....after that we went to Portuguese Settlement for our lunch.
The stalls -
What others said about Portuguese Settlement:
As part of the programme she is required to accumulate points for extra co-curricular activities - any programme that can develop her strength, enhance her knowledge, develop new skills etc.
Few years back she & I and my sis participated in Treasure Hunt event organized by The Sun (2005). That time we didn't win anything as we were new and clueless on how to read cryptic clues and solve the puzzles (we did however managed to secure top 10 placing in monorail hunt 2003 - beginner's luck).
Now, that she's back here she suggested that we tried again (after many years), I forwarded to her some treasure hunt sites and we finally chose an event organized by YKN (Yayasan Kebajikan Negara) - the prize seems good (even though we don't think we'll win anything) and we can participate in charity event.
So, Friday night (17/7/09), I went to sleep at my sis's house in Jalan U-Thant since we need to be at the flag off point early (flag off at 7.30am). That night, I couldn't sleep - 1) lots of mozzies (in the end my niece & I stayed up and managed to kill 7-8 mozzies) then we finally managed to sleep, but after an hour or 2 hours of sleep a loud noise can be heard from outside due to on-going road work...urgh...
I only managed to catch few winks then time to get up (5.30am) - after subuh prayer, we went to Pandan Indah to tapau McD's breakfast (breakfast cum lunch - my sis tapau 2 burger for each of us). We reached Pusat Sains Negara (flag off point) quite late, 10 minutes before flag off. After short briefing, photo session, off we go with tulips and questionaires in hand.
First stop at South City Seri Kembangan. 2 portions here and we only managed to solve correctly answers in 2nd portion. Then we continued with our hunting.
We managed to submit our first part of the questionaires at check point 1 (Medan Selera Sri Kendong in Rembau); after collecting 2nd part of the questionaires we started hunting and submitted the questionaire at last check point (Rumah Seri Kenangan Cheng, Melaka).
We can only check-in into D'Village Resort at 3pm so we spotted Aunty & Uncle Kopitiam after we left Rumah Cheng, decided to stop for lunch. The shop is new and the owner (I think he's the owner) very friendly and attentive. My niece had mihun sup and I had their chicken curry set lunch and we tapau fried rice for my sis (she had bad headache and slept in a car). Taste? Typical kopitiam food..
- Bee hoon soup RM4.50
- Chicken curry set (includes rice and lime juice) RM5.50
- Kampung fried rice RM4.50
- Hot coffee RM1.40
- Fresh orange juice RM3.50
- Carrot orange juice RM3.90
- Lemon orange juice RM3.90
After lunch we proceeded to D'Village Resort. Check-in was a breeze as the organizer was very efficient n organized :-)
As we enrolled in family category, we were given family chalet - 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms basically 2 individual chalets linked together with adjoining door. Reasonably clean with basic facilities - I don't mind going there again.
After resting a while we decided to explore nearby attractions - first stop - butterfly park (farm?) - the place looked abandoned..perhaps they closed for renovation? Next stop - Mini Malaysia / Asean Village - they closed at 6pm and we reached there slightly after 6pm...sigh..so we just walked around the compound and returned to hotel..we spotted a playing ground opposite the hotel (Dataran something) and decided to stop by so that my nephew can play there. While waiting for him, an ice cream man (with motorbike) came and we enjoyed his ice cream (homemade?) reminded me of my childhood days in my kampung...
Image from http://www.freewebs.com/cho-ko/picspeninsularmalaysia.htm
That night we had dinner (included in our Treasure Hunt package) and after dinner, main event of the night - the organizer revealed the answers and prize giving ceremony. We secured 3rd place in family category and 16th place in open category...not bad huh...considering this was our 4th hunt and our last hunt was like 4 years ago....
(hmm..trying to recall our 1st hunt...my eldest sis asked us to join her in a hunt organized by FRIM some time in 1993? something about eco/green or earth thingy...we were totally clueless..and gave up after few questions.......we didn't even know how to read tulip!)
Dinner was good. Lots of food and only 5 adults and 3 kids sharing the food (well..2 kids since my nephew doesn't eat rice or any dishes).
- Stir fried sawi
- tofu
- tom yum
- sweet sour fish
- fried chicken
- masak lemak udang
- asam pedas ikan (Malacca specialty)
- ulam & sambal belacan
Next day's breakfast was nasi lemak, fried noodles and bread...nasi lemak was actually quite tasty...
We checked out at 12noon and decided to drive around Jonker Street and stopped by to try Eye of Malacca.....after that we went to Portuguese Settlement for our lunch.
The stalls -
- Seafood Terrace
- Joan n El' Chico's - we had our lunch here
- Seafront
- Joe Splash Five
- Big Benz Fountain
- Jenny Kopitiam
- J&J Corner
- De Costas
What others said about Portuguese Settlement:
- http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=24358
- http://j2kfm.blogspot.com/2009/01/seafood-portuguese-settlement-melaka.html
- http://www.iwannaseetheworld.com/?p=7
- http://www.foodpoi.com/2008/10/portuguese-settlement-sea-terrace-seafood/
- http://jasonmumbles.com/2008/12/sea-terrance-portuguese-settlement
- http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/01/revisitng-sea-terrace-portuguese-settlement
- http://absolutginger.com/tag/portuguese-settlement/
- http://www.melaka.org.my/eatingout/portuguese.html
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/only-one-mango-juice-portuguese-settlement
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
