One Day Malacca Tour on 1st May 09

One Day Malacca Tour on 1st May 09 (Fri) with Transglobe Travel Service Pte Ltd.

One of the shops along Jonker's street that sell Nonya Kebaya

Before Jonker's Street

St Francis Xavier Church, Malacca

Nick eating the Gui Ling Gao

We wanted to have a short getaway on Labour Day so I searched through many travel agencies and managed to find Transglobe Travel Service which offers a variety of 1 day trips to Malaysia on Labour Day. Initially, we were quite hesistant on signing up with Transglobe as we have not heard of them before but we decided to take a gamble and signed up for the 1 day Malacca trip.

We set off from Balestier at 6.30am to Malacca via the North-South highway. The trip took about 3 hours. The new Sultan Iskandar Complex is very spacious and modern, it feels like you are at the airport terminal.

About 9.30am, we reached at a convenience stop near Yong Peng and had Yong Tau Fu noodle soup. That stop is near Lucky Garden Resturant.

At about 9.50am, we set off to Malacca and reached at about 11am. The tour guide, Christina, brought us to the Bee farm and then to Jonker's street for shopping. We bought handmade noodles, wife's biscuits and some souvenirs (handphone and hair accessories, coin pouches, and fridge mangnets) for our family. The wife's biscuits from Poh Keong Enterprise is a must-buy!

Along the way, we passed by Uncle Keong Resturant and was tempeted to eat Gui Ling Gao. There were different types of Gui Ling Gao like pearl powder Gui Ling Gao, bird nest's Gui Ling Gao, etc. The bird nest's Gui Ling Gao costs 19 ringgit which we find too expensive so we settled for pearl powder Gui Ling Gao which costs 8 ringgit. The taste is not bad but can't be compared to the one we had in HK and Dian Xiao Er.

We had Nonya lunch, it was delicious. We sat together with 2 families (7 people). We had Assam fish, sambal prawns, tao kua, omelette, vege and the famous chendol. I would give a rating of 3 out of 5.

After lunch, we head to the Cheng Ho Cultural Musuem. We were lead to watch a video on Cheng Ho's voyage to Asia, and then a puppet show. It was very educational.

After visiting the museum, we headed back to SIN. Along the way home, we stopped at Yoyo Enterprise at Yong Peng, Johor to buy some local products like steamed fish sauce and snacks.

We have to travel for another hour before reaching Kulai for dinner. We had steamed fish, vege, stir-fry pork, etc. Nothing special though.

In conclusion, we enjoyed ourselves a lot!